Hi everyone, we are beginners to freshwater tropicals and we are getting so much enjoyment out of it that we rarely watch TV any more and our cat is feeling very neglected!!!
We started with a 90L tank and within a very short time we had moved up to a 300L tank. Wanted our fish to have more room. We did make the mistake of purchasing fish that have the potential to grow rather large, but we are already planning the next tanks.
Our 300L community has 3 silver sharks, 3 clown loaches, 2 dwarf gouramis, 1 red tail shark, 1 pictus, 1 red-spot plectus, 1 bristlenose and a few danios and tetras. We know that this is a lot of fish but they are all small at the moment and like I say we are already planning the next tanks for when they grow. Our plectus, pictus and larger loach are the best of mates hang out together alot.
In the smallet tank we have started with a few cichlids - boy they are sure different fish!!
One of our loaches developed white spot early on and we have managed to treat and get rid of that succesfully. Our pictus got caught in the net when purchased, we hoped the net would fall off, but ended up having to cut it off ourselves due to the fact that he was bruising the side of his body, amazingly he stayed surprisingly still for this, he has developed a fungal growth and we have had some sucess treating that. We are having problems with one of the sharks and have posted a thread in the disease section.
Our nights are spent gazing at fish, changing water and doing all the tests now.
