Opinions and some brainstorming need.

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Yeah, I think Petland is a midwest thing. I've only seen them in Kansas and Nebraska. There's probably someone selling them here though. Mine is a Crenicichla saxatilis, which is a bit of a cop out pike. It's really difficult to tell them apart and when someone can't tell, they call it a saxatilis. If you check out the Crenichla forum you'll see lots of ID this fish threads.

I'd recommend one of the smaller ones, smallest gets 6 inches in tanks I think. Careful though, some fish look the same when young and will end up being over a foot long.
 
Dreamsing;3919204; said:
Yeah, I think Petland is a midwest thing. I've only seen them in Kansas and Nebraska. There's probably someone selling them here though. Mine is a Crenicichla saxatilis, which is a bit of a cop out pike. It's really difficult to tell them apart and when someone can't tell, they call it a saxatilis. If you check out the Crenichla forum you'll see lots of ID this fish threads.

I'd recommend one of the smaller ones, smallest gets 6 inches in tanks I think. Careful though, some fish look the same when young and will end up being over a foot long.
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Will keep that in mind.
Thanks
 
Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0......still little more time to go before I can start putting fish in; Ill continue to keep updated.
 
Raptorthefishman;3924729; said:
Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0......still little more time to go before I can start putting fish in; Ill continue to keep updated.
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Have you tried using a bacterial starter? There are several that only require dosing for 3 days before you can start adding fish.

If you have biomedia from another tank you can add to the filters, you could go ahead and put in a fish, plus some of the cycled bio from another tank, for instant cycling.
 
I switched a Bio-wheel 200 from an established tank to the new tank and added a 2nd new Bio-wheel 200 to the tank. Running 2 Biowheel 200s ( 1new and 1 from an established). Also put a fake log from the established tank into the new one. Did this all on day 1 of setting the tank up.
 
If you have an established filter running on there, you should go ahead and add at least one fish. If you don't, the bb in the filter will die (which will of course cause an ammonia bloom, which will then cycle the tank). But why waste the bb when you can already add fish, right?
 
This is very true... ill stop by the lfs on the way home from work. Seems if I go with the build we talked about, the senegals are the most hardy? The place I go has very little baby senegals like barely a inch and a half if i were to guess; would i want to pick up two as 1 wouldn't produce enough waste to help keep the BB alive?
 
Picked up 3 on the way home from work. Very healthy little guys that looked in great shape.
 
Raptorthefishman;3926367; said:
Picked up 3 on the way home from work. Very healthy little guys that looked in great shape.
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Sounds good. Just keep an eye on them and test parameters pretty frequently to make sure everything goes well. They shouldn't be enough to tax a cycled filter though.
 
Yeah I didn't think they would either, and already planned a daily test. Thanks for all the help as usual Conner :)
 
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