New 10 Gal Stocking Check

aakaakaak

aakaakaak

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Sep 9, 2010
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Before I get the fish, here's what I have:

Set up for 5 days:
10 Gallon standard tank (rinced)
1x 10 Gal heater (I don't remember the watts.)
2x plastic plants
1x Tetra Whisper PF10 HoB
10xGallons of water: 0/0/0 (AquaSafe Dechlorinated, will be TSS cycled) PH: 7.7

Set up today:
10 pounds of blue gravel (rinced)
Thermometer (Currently 78-79F)

To be added in the future:
- Gawdy pirate decorations (Ship and a chest, maybe a pirate skull...or maybe king neptune)
- One Piece pirate flag background (not sure how I'm gonna do it yet.)
- 3x Neon Tetra (being donated by someone breaking down their tank to move, sometime this week)
- 5x Rosy Barb (added probably a week later. Saw them at the LFS and they look healthy, had albino rosy barbs as well that look funny)
- 15 Gallons worth of TSS (To be added about an hour before the first fish)

I'm expecting the neons on either Thursday or Friday morning. NOTE: This tank is at work.

Anything I overlooked?
 

ValRasbora

ValRasbora

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May 2, 2009
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Rosy barbs need at least 20g and grow 5". Personally I highly prefer natural gravel.. whenever I buy icky fake gravel I soon regret it and replace it, but that's just me. The pirate theme sounds cool tho! Goodluck :)
 

aakaakaak

aakaakaak

Superstar Fish
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Sep 9, 2010
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Crap....CHERRY barbs, not rosy. Silly synonyms for red.....

Cherries grow to 2 inches, not 4.

...lemme fix that in the original post....

I've only used gravel. I almost used sand this time around but chickened out. It's a tank at work and I didn't want to deal with sand maintenance.

Edit: Bah! I can't change my post now!
 

aakaakaak

aakaakaak

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Sep 9, 2010
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I was looking into the neon deal before. From what some people were saying it's the batch of neons you get, not the fish itself. Some breeders produce crap fish, while others produce decent stock. Since I'm getting them from someone who's been keeping these particular three for a while I'm going to guess they're at least somewhat hardy.
 

Newman

Newman

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Sep 22, 2009
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i'd leave the neon count at 3 if you must get them, because 5 rosy barbs is pushing the tank max already. get two male rosies and the rest female. you'll like the fights they'll get into because they get really red lol. What is TSS? trumpet snails?
 

aakaakaak

aakaakaak

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Sep 9, 2010
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Newman said:
i'd leave the neon count at 3 if you must get them, because 5 rosy barbs is pushing the tank max already. get two male rosies and the rest female. you'll like the fights they'll get into because they get really red lol. What is TSS? trumpet snails?
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It was a choice of the guy turning them into fishcicles or rehoming them with me...so I figure I'll be okay with a little extra bioload.

Yes, TSS, Tetra Safe Start, suspended bacteria in a bottle.

He's also bringing in a 5 year old anubias nana....are those the ones you attach to wood/rocks?
 

Newman

Newman

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Sep 22, 2009
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oh lol Tetra products are something I am not familiar with at all... 15 gallons worth of trumpet snails would be funnier to add to your tank anyway. jk

anubias is a cool plant. too bad I've never had any luck with them. just have one nana in my 40 that somehow survived.(none of the anubias i get ever survive)
 

aakaakaak

aakaakaak

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Sep 9, 2010
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Yep, I remember that. Maybe there's something specific in your water that they don't like? Something not generally looked for that are specific to anubias that isn't identified yet. Rather unfortunate since you're so good with all the other stuff.

With 15 gallons worth of MTS I'd never have any problems with algae ever....or plants....or seeing my fish...they'd literally cover the glass.
 

aakaakaak

aakaakaak

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Sep 9, 2010
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TBH I think it's just about perfect the way it is. It's all in a straight line and should ride up my driftwood/log perfectly. There's about a six inch section that's just all root structure. Once I take it home from work I'll get a pic of it.
 

nanu156

nanu156

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Mar 8, 2010
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Bacteria in a bottle

I have never had much luck with it.

I have read some articles (that I would love to cite here but i don't have the time to dig them out) that show that most of the bacteria in the TSS and similar is already dead as it has a very short shelf life, and temp changes during shipping kills off the bacteria.

a properly cycled tank has 2 types of bacteria.The bottle bacteria only has the first type.

I would suggest since it appears that you have another tank up and running that you take your filter media, clean it in some dirty fish water then add the nasty brown goop that comes out of the established filter to your new set up. The goop will stick in your filter cartrige and walah instant cycle of a tank.

It's the same idea as using an established filter on a new tank to skip the cycle process.
 

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