So, I"m new to the fishkeeping hobby, a friend of mine got a 75 gallon tank or something like that and had me come look at it after its inital setup. I thought it looked good so i decided to get a smaller one to fit in my dining room for a few reasons. 1, my gf's son had arrived home with 3 small convict fry. 2 her sons goldfish was outgrowing its 1.5 gallon tank. 3 i saw a powder blue gourami on sale and loved the way it looked.
Well I housed the goldfish with the powder blue dwarf gourami in a ten gallon tank i had previously had from my childhood pet mouse days. I also moved the three fry from an extremely small betta bowl into the 1.5 gallon spongebob tank the goldfish was in. The fry began to grow when fed crushed up fish food. and the gourami and goldfish were getting along great.
I then decided i wanted to take my experience to the next level needing to get the fry into a larger tank was key. So i purchased a 39 gallon tank a gold gourami, a blue gourami a paradise gourami a rubber lip pleco a silvertip shark.... and a leopard puffer :-S. (never having gotten any strong advise from the local pet stores i didnt realise the puffer needed a brackish tank). Well i read up on puffers because i thought he was so cool and realised he needed a brackish tank so i went to the petstore talked to the fishguy and got some conditioning salt ( bad move) .
The goldfish and two convicts are now in the tengallon tank upstairs in my gf's sons room. The puffer of course died because conditioning salt isnt suitable to create a brackish environment. My powder blue gourami died due to stress created by the convict. The silver tip shark jumped out of the tank through the hole where my air lines enter the tank lid. The blue gourami died approx. two days after the powder blue gourami probably due to the same stress, however the gold gourami is still going strong as one of the bullies of the tank even pushing back against the convict.
Of course i wanted to replace the fish that passed with fish that would survive better. Well after hearing about the wierd mic in my tank the fishlady suggest i stay away from african cichlids and most central american cichlids. But she suggest a Tiger Oscar (i realize now this is a central american cichlid) and a silver dollar.
So thats my tank now going strong for a few months . Gold Gourami
Paradise Gourami
Rubberlip PLeco
Convict
Tiger Oscar
Silver Dollar in a 29 gallon tank,
My buddy will be taking the oscar off my hands for his much larger tank when he outgrows my tank .
Well I housed the goldfish with the powder blue dwarf gourami in a ten gallon tank i had previously had from my childhood pet mouse days. I also moved the three fry from an extremely small betta bowl into the 1.5 gallon spongebob tank the goldfish was in. The fry began to grow when fed crushed up fish food. and the gourami and goldfish were getting along great.
I then decided i wanted to take my experience to the next level needing to get the fry into a larger tank was key. So i purchased a 39 gallon tank a gold gourami, a blue gourami a paradise gourami a rubber lip pleco a silvertip shark.... and a leopard puffer :-S. (never having gotten any strong advise from the local pet stores i didnt realise the puffer needed a brackish tank). Well i read up on puffers because i thought he was so cool and realised he needed a brackish tank so i went to the petstore talked to the fishguy and got some conditioning salt ( bad move) .
The goldfish and two convicts are now in the tengallon tank upstairs in my gf's sons room. The puffer of course died because conditioning salt isnt suitable to create a brackish environment. My powder blue gourami died due to stress created by the convict. The silver tip shark jumped out of the tank through the hole where my air lines enter the tank lid. The blue gourami died approx. two days after the powder blue gourami probably due to the same stress, however the gold gourami is still going strong as one of the bullies of the tank even pushing back against the convict.
Of course i wanted to replace the fish that passed with fish that would survive better. Well after hearing about the wierd mic in my tank the fishlady suggest i stay away from african cichlids and most central american cichlids. But she suggest a Tiger Oscar (i realize now this is a central american cichlid) and a silver dollar.
So thats my tank now going strong for a few months . Gold Gourami
Paradise Gourami
Rubberlip PLeco
Convict
Tiger Oscar
Silver Dollar in a 29 gallon tank,
My buddy will be taking the oscar off my hands for his much larger tank when he outgrows my tank .
i dont think their ever was a Tyler Durden.