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Hi Lynda 

Instead of multiple tank syndrome I just keep buying bigger tanks and storing the old ones till we move house lol, welcome to the Forum Lynda

So you have THS - Tank Hoarding Syndrome?? 

Hello all, my name is Gaynor. an amateur tropical fish owner but not a complete novice.  Looking forward to hearing from people and reading up on various subjects

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Hi, welcome 

Interesting looking tank, and seeing the prices on-line you did get a bargain!

With it being a tall thin tank, you need to stick with small fish and/or slow swimming fish. A lot of small fish zoom around and need a fair bit of swimming room.

The best thing you can do is look at Seriously Fish as that site does give the tank size needed - start off with your wish list. It would also help to know the hardness of your water. Your water company's website should have it somewhere (some of them do make it hard to find  )

However, given that you already have borneo suckers (are they one of the Beaufortia species?) you need to look at fish that need slightly cooler temperatures and high water flow.

Hey folks,

Been lurking for some time, thought it was about time to say hi.  I've been a fishkeeper since Feb 2012, though I think they are keeping me to be honest.  I had a 64cm 'FishBox' (horrible thing) until the summer of 2013 and moved into my current 100cm Roma 200.

Current layout (attached) has been up since about the end of August this year.  Got rid of live plants and a dirt base... too much trouble, so I've gone for simple (albeit a little minimalist at the moment).

Vietnamese White Cloud Mountain Minnows, Panda Corys, Glowlight Tetra, Glowlight Danio, Penguin Tetra, Black Neon Tetra, Cherry Barb, Amano Shrimp, Assassin Snails and the usual pesky Pond Snails too.

Hello, thank you for making me welcome. I have read through a good deal of the posts on the site but felt that, to get the most out of the forum, I should join in.
As time goes on I hope to use the forum for all of the great info and experience that I have seen from the members and hopefully add some of my own thoughts once I have them from re starting the Tropical fishkeeping hobby a few years away.
Bryan

Hello I thought I would introduce myself and my fish tank to this forum.
I had been thinking about having an aquarium for a few years now, so with my wife’s go ahead, I bought a 30l tank. This was always going to be a starter tank for me, to see if I could cope with all the pressures, as it turns out.
I bought the tank a few days earlier and had put water in it with added ‘Aqua safe’ and heated the water to around 23 degrees, although the weather was really good so the heater did not switch on much. The filter was also running.
I visited a local fish shop for advice. I told them the size of my tank and with their guidance we chose our fish. I had 8 neon Tetras and 4 Otto’s. Picked my substrate a few plants and went home with them.
I added all the fish, carefully, as told. Everything looked fine. They settled in very quickly. The fish were not fed on the first day, but I did on the second day and they all ate something.
My problems started on day 3. One of the smaller Tetra had died. I thought it may have been down to the shock of moving from the shop tank to mine. The next day I had 2 more deaths, one Otto and one Tetra. This was now worrying. So I searched on the internet for help, as the shop was not open. During my trawling I found Thinkfish. I read the article on cycling tanks. Was amazed by its contents and decided to follow it.
Starting with a 50% water change and ordering a test kit, I lost one more Otto and Tetra the next day. So I carried on with water changes. My test kit arrived 2 days later. The first reading for ammonia was 2.0 ppm. Poor little sods! No wonder they were dying.
My cycling started on the 25th of July this year. I did a 25% water change every day, not always taking readings, but always did a WC. My ‘fish in ‘tank was cycled on the 24th of August. (3 days of ammonia 0 and nitrite 0). The 6 neon’s and 2 Otto’s were still alive. They had been through the tank cycling, tough little cookies!
Nowadays I do a 20% water change about every 10 days now. All readings are good. The fish look healthy and some of my plants are growing well. The light in the tank is only about 10 watts, so not good for plant growing, so I read on Tropicas website.
I’ve made a decision to go for a larger tank. I know that my tank is too small for the type and quantity of fish I have and I also like the idea of aquascaping, so a nice tank like the new fluval fresh aquarium would fit the bill. I put a post on here asking if anyone has one and could give me there experiences of the tank, but I’m almost certain that this will be the one early next year.
Well just to round up, I should have done more research online or in the library before I started. The fish shop was a load of rubbish, never going there again  . I suppose they made their money! And I wanted to send my thanks to everyone on this website and forum for their help and advice. Just by reading your posts I have learnt so much, it’s been an eye opener for me.

I wish you all a Happy Christmas and thanks again for all your help.
Hopefully I can get a few pictures on here of the early and later days of my 30l tank.
I took a few over the last 6 months!!

Mike

hi mike welcome to the forum , it sounds like your well under way on a infections disease that takes hold of most of us fish keepers its called mts ( multiple tank syndrome ) , you start with one tank they buy a bigger one becuase you realise its to small but the smaller tank ends up being left running with some other fish in and so on