Help needed with outdoor setup!

[rittz]

Excuse the ghetto appearance, I'll be adding brick and rock work, etc.. very soon on the outside walls. I'm using a roughly 30 gallon container, round in shape. I've added lots of natural colored gravel, rock work and bricks for shelter and breeding dens. I'm looking to house rosy red minnows and maybe grow out three or four baby commons.. for filtration I'm using a 60g hob and a 15g hob. %50 weekly water changes are planned using well water.

Here's my concern. The weather here is crazy. Last week it was snowing this week its in the mid 70s. So temperature can change quickly, also our summers reach around 110. For the next couple of months were expecting temps between 70-80.

Is this environment suitable for cold water fish? Any help would be great!

Thank u!

 

[rittz]

Here is the setup without water. My goal is to establish a breeding shoal of rosy reds. Does this seem possible with the layout of my setup? Any other tank mates to recommend?

Tips or advice needed!!

 

[rittz]

More pics..

 

[fwprawn]

Sorry, but no. Firstly, way too small for this kind of project. Secondly, the size will cause the temp to be all over the map. And your filter would be good only if you had, maybe , a few small fish in it.

 

[rittz]

Sorry, but no. Firstly, way too small for this kind of project. Secondly, the size will cause the temp to be all over the map. And your filter would be good only if you had, maybe , a few small fish in it.

Rosy reds breed in as little as five gallons. This is thirty gallons with my plan of adding two dozen fish. If I leave out the goldfish and just stick to the reds will I be OK. I'll even move the setup indoors. Will this make it work?

 

[fwprawn]

You evidently don't know much about water quality, maintenance, much less fish husbandry.

Rosy Reds might breed in 5 gallons, when *taken care of properly*

PLEASE do your homework FIRST - which you are, here, but you need to NOT be argumentative, and listen to us.

1. Adequate filtration.
2. Adequate water maintenance
3. Adequate temperature control

None of which you have.

 

[Dieselhybrid]

Moving indoor would help. As said before that small if a volume of water outdoors will shift temperature day and night. I'd day get a 300 gallon Rubbermaid, add more filtration and possibly run chillers. 100 degree water holds little dissolved O2

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[rittz]

You evidently don't know much about water quality, maintenance, much less fish husbandry.

Rosy Reds might breed in 5 gallons, when *taken care of properly*

PLEASE do your homework FIRST - which you are, here, but you need to NOT be argumentative, and listen to us.

1. Adequate filtration.
2. Adequate water maintenance
3. Adequate temperature control

None of which you have.

What made u feel the need to be a dick? As stated I haven't completed the setup, I'm asking for the information. I didn't say I had any of those.

 

[jeremoose]

The filtration is definitely a concern, as is the temperature as already stated. If you definitely want this to be an outdoor project try a permanently shaded location, such as under a deck, then dig it into the ground.