Greetings,
This is my first post in this forum, but I've been lurking as a guest for a while now. I feel some introductory groveling would be appropriate, so with your permission, here it goes:
You people are incredibly smart and knowledgeable and I feel unworthy of being in your online presence. But please, force the light of your wisdom on the shadow of my many beginner's mistakes. If you don't find me deserving of your help, then don't do it for me, but please, do it for my fish!
Now, some quick background before I start assaulting this fine community with my many questions.
I bought my first fishtank last fall at a garage sale for twenty bucks. It's a small one, 10 gallons, with cheap lighting (the kind with lightbulbs) but with what I think is a good external filter (aquaclear mini). I made many foolish things, like not waiting long enough for the tank to be cycled before adding fish and then overstocking the tank. The deaths of a ghost shrimp and three bronze cories are haunting me. I bought half a dozen books about fish tanks (mostly second hand, I'm cheap) and read some more stuff on websites, including this one.
I want to learn from my old mistakes, avoid making new ones and provide my fish and invertebrates with a comfortable existence. I'm slowly getting addicted to fish keeping and my girlfriend threatened to break up with me if I didn't find someone else than her to discuss it with.
So... Any room for me here? Or are you overstocked yet?
This is my first post in this forum, but I've been lurking as a guest for a while now. I feel some introductory groveling would be appropriate, so with your permission, here it goes:
You people are incredibly smart and knowledgeable and I feel unworthy of being in your online presence. But please, force the light of your wisdom on the shadow of my many beginner's mistakes. If you don't find me deserving of your help, then don't do it for me, but please, do it for my fish!
Now, some quick background before I start assaulting this fine community with my many questions.
I bought my first fishtank last fall at a garage sale for twenty bucks. It's a small one, 10 gallons, with cheap lighting (the kind with lightbulbs) but with what I think is a good external filter (aquaclear mini). I made many foolish things, like not waiting long enough for the tank to be cycled before adding fish and then overstocking the tank. The deaths of a ghost shrimp and three bronze cories are haunting me. I bought half a dozen books about fish tanks (mostly second hand, I'm cheap) and read some more stuff on websites, including this one.
I want to learn from my old mistakes, avoid making new ones and provide my fish and invertebrates with a comfortable existence. I'm slowly getting addicted to fish keeping and my girlfriend threatened to break up with me if I didn't find someone else than her to discuss it with.
So... Any room for me here? Or are you overstocked yet?
