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Fishman, your what, 15? Push fishkeeping aside and set up a low maintance walstad style tank in your ten gal. Why? Because you may be getting a social/love life down the road and your tanks may have to take a back seat. I am in high school now and I set my ten gal as a heavilly planted low maintence tank due to my life is taking over. I only do what 1 wc every 2 months with my tanks because my plants balance the excess nitrates and nitrites via using them at fertilizer. My bioload is exactly what I posted to you earlier. You can still keep fish but just learn how to keep them the right way.
Disclaimer: My suggestion shouldn't be attempted by the new hobbiest. The Walstad method requires a ton of research and has some aspects that most hobbiests may not agree with. If you are just starting out, erase my post from your memory and run far away.
Disclaimer: My suggestion shouldn't be attempted by the new hobbiest. The Walstad method requires a ton of research and has some aspects that most hobbiests may not agree with. If you are just starting out, erase my post from your memory and run far away.
.I thought itd be cool to give her a lil buddy she couldnt kill, brought home a Cray outta the local FISHLESS creek. Added a shrimp pellet which he took and went into his log and ate. I said "Well good i got a new buddy and Electra a new friend." Didnt look in the tank again until i was online and i decided to research Crayfish species, then Crayfish care came up, i read the following statement "Crayfish are excellent fishermen and will hunt and kill and eat any fish in with them unless it is substantiouly bigger." My blood ran cold, i ran over to my tank to find Sheldon(My cray) with Electra's head left in his claw just finishing her and i about fainted quite a dumb mistake of me. So now i have a Crayfish in my 5.5 gallon and nothing else, i would add in a local Salamander but A: it would be eaten and B: no food source for it so lil Sheldon has a tank to himself and he seems quite happy lol.
I wouldn't do newts or salamanders in a small tank like a 5. They're amphibious, they need land to walk on and a 5 just doesn't have the space for that. I also would certainly NEVER take any from the wild, they would not do well in a tank.
Yeah you kinda need to research EVERYTHING you put in your tank.. Shame about Electra but anyone on here could have told you she'd have been eaten by the crayfish if you'd only slowed down and thought about it!
Yeah you kinda need to research EVERYTHING you put in your tank.. Shame about Electra but anyone on here could have told you she'd have been eaten by the crayfish if you'd only slowed down and thought about it!
When I was a kid, my neighbor that lived onna farm had a stroke. She was hospitalized for weeks and in a nursing home for about 4 months.
In her abscence, I cared for her: horse, 2 ponies, a goat, dozens of chickens and rabbits, 3 dogs (2 inside, 1 outside) and 5 cats (2 inside, 3 outside), and a goldfish tank (55 gallons, and it had 3 fancy goldies in it).
I milked the goat twice a day, gathered eggs each morning, and put all in the fridge for another neighbor who would take it to sell at a farmer's market.
I fed all the animals twice a day, cleaned out the pens they lived in, turned the horse and ponies out into a pasture in the morning and back into the barn in the evening.
I walked the two inside dogs before school, after school, and right before bedtime. I played with the outside dog and cats every day.
I did a 50% water change on the fish aquarium every week.
During the amost 5 months the lady was gone, I did this all myself.
I was 14.
In her abscence, I cared for her: horse, 2 ponies, a goat, dozens of chickens and rabbits, 3 dogs (2 inside, 1 outside) and 5 cats (2 inside, 3 outside), and a goldfish tank (55 gallons, and it had 3 fancy goldies in it).
I milked the goat twice a day, gathered eggs each morning, and put all in the fridge for another neighbor who would take it to sell at a farmer's market.
I fed all the animals twice a day, cleaned out the pens they lived in, turned the horse and ponies out into a pasture in the morning and back into the barn in the evening.
I walked the two inside dogs before school, after school, and right before bedtime. I played with the outside dog and cats every day.
I did a 50% water change on the fish aquarium every week.
During the amost 5 months the lady was gone, I did this all myself.
I was 14.
Thanks OC, When I was 12 or 13 a my Dad's brother died and my parents left me with a herd of milk cows (20 or so) to milk by hand for three days - they had to travel a couple hundred miles and be gone for three days. Phone calls were expensive so they didn't call to see how I was doing. The milk had to be dealt with and shipped. Cows milked, fed and watered, barn cleaned. They trusted me and I knew the farm depended on me. It was a way of life - animals depend on you! Anything you chose to put in a container depend on you!! Forget it if you don't have the capacity to care!!