Beginner tips please add tips

[SirReptile]

Occasionally you should count your fish to make sure they are all there because a dead fish in tank can really cloud your tank and throw off your chemical balance.
one great way I found to stop this from happening especially for beginners is to have a small sheet or book next to the aquarium that has the species of the fish and the amount of each species you have and the day bought and the date of death,along withe the size and any notes each fish this Is not only to stop this from happening but can me interesting to compare to other fish and what the full size fish is meant to be and the size achieved.
all notes taken help when keeping that species of fish again.

thanks SirReptile
i hope this information for beginners will help and maybe inspire some ideas of the more experienced aquarists or fish keepers.

 

[SirReptile]

Please give feed back

 

[Miguel]

does not apply to monsters...

 

[koltsixx]

A beginner's tip guide should be more comprehensive and start with basic information. The first thing you do as a beginner is set up a tank, so you should start there. Like how to choose tank size, basics of water chemistry, choosing a filter and researching fish compatibility. That's my opinion anyway.

 

[joe jaskot]

Research before buying anything.

 

[Armoros]

Find a good DIY recipes and cook your own fish food. Healthier in most cases and much cheaper than buy monster pellets.

 

[theskibag]

Don't trust heaters, get a contoller

 

[SirReptile]

A beginner's tip guide should be more comprehensive and start with basic information. The first thing you do as a beginner is set up a tank, so you should start there. Like how to choose tank size, basics of water chemistry, choosing a filter and researching fish compatibility. That's my opinion anyway.

This obviously was for if they had a tank or were thinking of getting one. I was mearly giving a tip about some thing that is sometimes happens in the trade and a way to stop it and take down some information on each fish for future reference.Next time I will put up a tip with what you said in it

 

[SirReptile]

does not apply to monsters...

Have you noticed when on the Internet you might search something about or for fish and this website ocassionally pops up with some info this is it .And it can apply to monsters if you have heaps say you have an all birchir tank about 30or less you probably wouldn't notice if one was gone unless you counted or the water started to cloud or something along those line, of course you might have noticed the fish acting strangely or something but this can apply to monsters.(I don't know much Bout birchirs so if I stated something wrong please don't criticise me) thank you

 

[2songbirds]

well, I"ve had fish die and left them in there to float only to watch them decay and have fungus grow on them and really foul up my water. It smelt, if that's even a word.

I've had fish die that I fed to another fish tank as food obviously, or were dying...cheap food source.

I've had fish disappear...only to find them in stomachs of others' or stuck in the filters somewhere, somehow and I had to actually shut off the dang filters to physically pull out the fish. The grossest was a hoplo that clogged the FX5 inlet...

Now, by beloved ornate bichir grew too big in his favorite cave ornament as he would eat the frozen shrimp that fell into it, then I mistakenly and purposely put the shrimp in there for him. He was a beauty. He grew too fat, too big. He died in there and we didn't know. Until the water went bad and started to smell and other fish showed signs of distress and we didn't know why until we found him. We broke open the big log to get him out. Ugh. He was 10-13 inches, I don't remember now. I was really upset.

But, with all the tanks I have and all the little fish I have even in the 5g eclipse, I still remember who belongs where...and if I'm missing one. Now, it may take me a week or a month to realize I'm missing a neon, but a dead neon won't mess up the water chemistry of the 5g left in there. Or a dead algae in the 20g or dead algae eater in the 125g...believe me. It's when the water gets stagnant and other fish don't "clean" up right away it becomes an issue. Hope this helps.