What's in your fish tank(s)?

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Kristy

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What kind of fish do you have in your tank(s)?
If you know which are male and/or female?
How many gallons are your tank?
Freshwater or salt?
What enviorment are your fish living in?
What to watch out for?





Using this as ideas to set up a new tank and for ideas for others who want to add or set up new tank.
 
well firstly i have to tanks but i tell you about my one in my bedroom as it is my fav set up. I have a 10gallon tank and i have 1male neon rainbow fish and 2 female and then i also got 6 male endlers. and 2 pepperd corys. but not sure what sex they are. and there freshwater. and there envirment in the tank is planted with open spaces with rocks and bog word. endlers are now though to be exstint in the wild. and what to watch out for? well nothin the illness and poor water quality. belongs the tank healthy then alls good. the endlers are very playful fish and the rainbow fish are very peaceful obsevant fish. and the corys do what they do.
 
My 10 gallon tank contains a nice deep cave and a number of plants, and contains a betta and 6 corydora catfish. I don't know the gender of the catfish, nor do I really care. The betta is male and obvious by his big fins. Nothing to watch for really except the usual aquarium stuff.

My 75 gallon is decorated with an assortment of rocks, wood, and plants. I have a pair of lovely nicaraguensis cichlids (male 8", female 5") that live with a school of serpae tetras, a school of red-tail rasboras, and a group of synodontis 'cuckoo' catfish. Making a community tank around a pair of cichlids though, generally takes experience and an understanding of fish behaviour so I don't recommend it lightly - in this tank aggression from the cichlids is the main thing to watch out for. but boy is it one heck of a stunning tank.

These are just current running tanks, I've kept many others over the years as well. One of my favourate small tanks was a 15 gallon which was thickly planted with live plants and contained 1 male betta, 8 cardinal tetras, 4 corydora cats, 3 oto cats, and 2 amano shrimp. Stunning tank. I took it down though after 6 years, when the betta finally died.

All my freshwater fish live in the same tap water. I have never worried about ph and never will, because my fish have all always done great in it as it is - at about 8.2. I keep my temps at 76-78 and never add salt to my freshwater fish tanks. It's just not necessary. In fact, I add nothing at all to my water except conditioner.
 
i have three gold fish in my 10 gallon tank. Two regular feeder fish and a Fan tailed Goldfish. they are just in regular house water. With some plants and rocks at the bottom.

Watch out for the fish wanting to eat a lot. only feed them three times a day.
 
I have three male fancy guppies in an established 10g tank. It has a heater because they are tropical fish. I have a handful of live plants as well as turquoise gravel for the substrate. There is a tall, plastic plant next to a nice sculpted coral with plastic plants around it. There is no background yet, but I would like to add one, preferably a dark coloured one to bring forth the bright colours in the tank. There is one blue light and one white light in the hood of the tank which looks pretty turned on.

My 5g tank is currently cycling at the moment. It has two live plants with deep purple gravel as a substrate. It is currently patiently waiting upon the new arrival of a dwarf pufferfish as soon as the cycle is achieved. I will install a heater later down the line as well as a nice black background to contrast with the colours of the live plants and the gravel. There is a white light which looks nice turned on, and even nicer with the background, I bet.

Just make sure your tank is cycled and you're keeping the tank clean with weekly water changes of 25%. The wait before adding the fish is worth it, it allows for the fish to be less stressed when added to an established tank.
 
i have three gold fish in my 10 gallon tank. Two regular feeder fish and a Fan tailed Goldfish. they are just in regular house water. With some plants and rocks at the bottom.

Watch out for the fish wanting to eat a lot. only feed them three times a day.
 
None right now because my dad killed them all, and there is no way to tell if a fish is male or female because fish are asexual, they can change their gender.
 
I have three male fancy guppies in an established 10g tank. It has a heater because they are tropical fish. I have a handful of live plants as well as turquoise gravel for the substrate. There is a tall, plastic plant next to a nice sculpted coral with plastic plants around it. There is no background yet, but I would like to add one, preferably a dark coloured one to bring forth the bright colours in the tank. There is one blue light and one white light in the hood of the tank which looks pretty turned on.

My 5g tank is currently cycling at the moment. It has two live plants with deep purple gravel as a substrate. It is currently patiently waiting upon the new arrival of a dwarf pufferfish as soon as the cycle is achieved. I will install a heater later down the line as well as a nice black background to contrast with the colours of the live plants and the gravel. There is a white light which looks nice turned on, and even nicer with the background, I bet.

Just make sure your tank is cycled and you're keeping the tank clean with weekly water changes of 25%. The wait before adding the fish is worth it, it allows for the fish to be less stressed when added to an established tank.
 
I have two freshwater tanks. One is a 10 gallon with a Dwarf flame gourami (male), 1 guppy (male), I glofish (sex unknown), 1 Red tailed shark (sex unknown), 1 serpea tetra ( sex Unknown), and 1 Chinese algae eater (sex unknown) and one Trapdoor snail (sex unknown). The other tank Is a 30 gallon with 12 Pristella tetras (both sexes), 5 Neon tetras (both sexes), 1 spotted corydoras (female), 4 albino corydoras (both sexes), 4 kulhi loaches (sexes unknown), 2 Dojo loaches (sexes unknown), 1 Betta (male), 1 bristle nose pleco (sex unknown), 2 clown plecos (sexes unknown), 1 Chinese algae eater (sex unknown), 2 African Dwarf Frogs ( sexes unknown), 1 bamboo shrimp (sex unknown), and 1 Trapdoor snail (sex unknown). This tank is a bit over crowded but is well established and I clean and change it waters ( about 30% each time) once a week. Also I have read that plecos (even different species) don;t get along well together. However the three I have seem to get along fine. I have not had any problems out of either tank with these fish. Both tanks are well planted with the 30 gallon also containing two large pieces of driftwood for the plecos. Both tanks also have several caves and hiding places fforall the fish that want or need them. These are all tropical fish so I keep their water temps at around 74-78 degrees and feed all of them once a day. Everyone but the bottom feeders (corydoras, loaches, plecos) I feed tropical flakes. the bottom feeders I feed sinking shrimp pellets. the frogs I feed sinking frog pellets. All get blood worms as well. Hope this helps!
 
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