Hi All,
Like most of you always wanted fish never really had the opportunity. Purchased my first tank in Jan a little 50 L Aqua one put a couple of dwarf Gourami and a few tetras Pretty little tank I
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things went well for the first month, then I found a few fish on and bench next to the tank, lid didn't cover everything. Found a Gourami dead on at the bottom of the tank like he had been eating stones. Had an out break of algae, I liked the tank to be clean, and maintained it religiously once a week turns out the filter shouldn't be included but that lead to a clean up squad of 4 bristles . Went on a 2 week holiday spoke to my LFS got the good oil on plants and a weekend food block came home to happy healthy all accounted for Fish. Like the plants some much jumped to to the City farmers just down the road and grab some more. A couple of days later I started to notice white spots on everything, followed the standard treatment via google experts.... lost a large chunk of my 12 originals one glow light and 2 Black neon's was it. Since then the 10 neon replacement did well and the Bristles have breed so ended up with 30-40 BNs swimming around the tank.
Time for an upgrade, any excuse really....
from this
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to this
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While I I love the location it has certainly provided me with a few technical challenges that I am working my way through, everything from my old tank is in the new one for now.. Any advise would be gladly accepted.
Tank is 4 x 14 x 18 I have internal 900 lph and my old clear view 200, will be picking up a Canister in the next day or so
10 neon tetras
2 black neons
1 glow-light
30-40 bristles.
and a recent addition of 5 Juvenal latifasciata, I am shifting to a Cichlid tank.
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2 days after this shot and a week into the new setup I have the demon white spots on my new additions, I am guessing the filtration is not up to the task and too impatient... I had been doing a 2 bucket water change every night about 20 liters, do I put a new filter in while there is white spot in my tank?
In the end I will have it looking like it was built into the wall but all in good time my wife tells me.