Subj : Re: Newbie-How Many Fish?
To : All
From : Iain Miller
Date : Fri Jan 02 2004 06:34 am
"Fish Keeper" <
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> for crying out loud. this is a little girl with a five gallon tank with
> a frog and a little fish.
> if you want my opinion.....get another little frog and maybe one more
> fish. the less you have in the tank the better. don't worry about all
> that testing stuff....we are not talking about an elaborate system with
> exotic expensive fish here. if you want a catfish or large snail that
> would be fine. small cory cat would work o.k.
> change out about a gallon a week of water (using same temp and
> dechlorinator). enjoy them and forget the test kits.
We'll have to agree to disagree on this. I'm sure the OP wants this thing to
work & the more you know about what's going on the more likely it is to do
so. Next step might be to get a bigger tank with more fish - who knows.
Either way the cycle applies whether its 5 gallons or 500 gallons. My kids
(5&7) help look after the two tanks we now have & the testing is all part of
it - indeed, they remind me to do it from time to time & they enjoy knowing
that we are doing the best we can for our fish. They also learn from it.
A while back we set up a 10G with only two platties in it & we had more
problems cyclling that than with either of the two bigger tanks we now
have - Nitrites nearly went off the scale (probably because we over fed -
hence the stuff I wrote about not doing so).
I.
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