Fish Tank Filter Questions:

Question #1:

Beta tankmate suggestions.?

I have a 15 congius freshwater tank. The tank is hot and has a filter.

I have a phallic beta and digit African Dwarf frogs experience blithely in the cell now.

I m not using any substrate has I like the clean bottom look.

There are some decorations in the cell to wage shelter for the fish/ frogs.

What would you recommend I add to the cell without overstocking?
I am ok with leaving the tank alone, but I know of several species that crapper be kept with them. My two adfs are a good example. They hit lived blithely unitedly for the last 6 months.

Question #2:

Male or female? crossbred guppies?

I just bought my first 3 guppies & they are every lonely in a 10gallon tank with 5 job plastic plants, heater, separate & gravel. Petco kinda far absent from home , only had lyre eveningwear and I desired cobra guppies.Decided to intend 3 from walmart because they had a different type and there was no artefact i was dynamical every the way back to petco. And there are no another seek stores in my area.So I got 1black guppy- .
1 same this eliminate it is clear with 3 chromatic spots and a yellowish tail. And 1 looks like a lyre tail/endler mix couldn't find a picture that looked same but its not as colorful as an endler but the tail is rattling similar just a a lowercase bit longer.Also the lyre tail/endler stay near together, the black one went inside a impressible being near the rattling bottom and is tearful in place...the another 2 are roaming around together, when i prototypal place all 3 in the tank, they were resistance every over each other..eating & tearful together. but today its way assorted is this normal? there were no fights either i plan on getting 2 more guppies the cobra would that attain them happy? or what to do i undergo the black 1 is female, is it doable the another 2 are male? they don't have amygdaliform fins nearby the rear so do i hit to get disembarrass of 1 or get more females, so far they haven't bothered the woman and hit been friendly with each other. I would hit got more then but they had exclusive had 2 black guppy and 3lyre and 2 integrated looking guppies left., so i meet got the healthiest 1 of each..

Question #3:

Questions about a 3 gallon tank?

I have a threesome congius fish tank with a filter and I don't hit the money to get a larger one, though I desire I could. I would REALLY love to intend a Dwarf Amerindic Puffer Fish and get a 25W heater, but I don't know if my cell is large enough. I was also feat to study getting a flushed clawed crank and an Otocinclus, but I don't know if that module work. I would love some suggestions of cute little seek even if it is exclusive digit that I can get, tropical or non.

Question #4:

How to make a successful 1.5 gallon tank?

I got my 1.5 gallon cell as a peewee exclusive tank, but my first batch of red cherry peewee died within a few weeks. There is a scholar filter, heater the water was 75 degrees with the heater , and 2 giant marimo moss balls along with a java fern in my tank. There is no ammonia, nitrites, or nitrates, and the pH is moderately high, so I don't know ground they died. I do a 1/2 congius liquid change weekly. I also fed them 2-3 seek matter flakes every 2-3 life to ready the water preparation . Is there a better shrimp, snail, or modify a frog that would work for my tank? Also, my house's wind are copper, so could that hit affected my shrimp? If so, is there a artefact to intend rid of the copper in the water? Thanks!
Oh, and the tank is prefabricated of plastic and has a cowl and light. It was digit of the tetra kits, but I bought a filter and bullet and ditched the undergravel separate because I could surmisal it wouldn't work.

Question #5:

10 gallon tank setup help?

I hit a 10 gallon cell 20"long,12"tall,10"wide , with a 15 gallon separate & heater. 1"of gravel, 3 fake plants, hair gage 6"tall, amazon brand 4.5"tall & a green conic leaf being 4"tall. A 2.5"tall diminutive imitation coral and a fake sea actinozoan on a rock 2.5"tall. Everything is 2.5" panoramic except for the seafaring actinozoan and woman sword which are 4" wide. I was feat to get 5 Fancy guppies with daylong tails. I was wondering if they would be comfortable in the tank? Should I intend more plants? It is kind of roomy. I was feat to intend springy plants but at my local pet stores they don't look healthy, and most are covered in tons of lowercase snails. Probably the reason they aren't healthy? Also I'm feat to get a diminutive siphon, any suggestions on which one to get? I already hit Tetra Fukkianese equatorial flakes, there is a guppy on the container so I'm guessing its guppy safe. Already put 1tsp of Jungle start correct chlorine remover in the tank. Tank has been streaming for a day now,,just cleaned it out yesterday with rattling hot water . Its my sisters older cell she only kept her mollies for a year they she killed them with the commode because they got really big, she kept her cell nasty, it smelled rattling bad! : But since everything is used, do I need to do the cycle? I did clean everything with hot water so, I probably do. But just checking, I don't poverty to kill the fish. Also what is a quick way to wheel that isn't expensive? And I know I'm feat to need a liquid effort kit, some good outfit that isn't to pricey they crapper be re-used right? I know that was a taste long, I'm sorry but I want them to springy long bright lives. After every I'm taking them away from the uncolored surroundings for my entertainment.Also 10% to 20% water changes every week after I finally intend the fish in the tank? Thanks and any tips or suggestions module be greatly appreciated.

Question #6:

Can i turn my freshwater tropical tank into a marine tank?

What module I need? I want fish only, I have a 220 litre tank,with a External separate nd internal,250 watt heater,also do I need sand? How much? Will it be costly?

Question #7:

Fish tank questions part 2. ?

Ok 2 tetras, 2 plecos, 4 silver dollar, 2 blue three spot, 2 comet gold fish. The grayness dollar and metallic fish are most 3 4 inches. I bought this tank and utilised the old filters old gravel and conditioner for the newborn water. all of my chemicals are precise and fish are doing great. My discourse is do i have enough seek or not sufficiency fish. crapper i get more or should i? Do i hit a good difference of fish or do i need to add something

Question #8:

Why did my guppies die?

Hey there.
I about 2 weeks past I bought 3 guppies from the local pet accumulation and settled them in my tank. They were dead within 24 hours. I proven again, these were dead within 12 hours, trying for a ordinal time, the fish once again died within 12 hours.
The circumstances are as such:
- The tank utilised to be a algid water, 20L tank with 4 Zebra Danios and two Goldfish. Wanting equatorial seek I waited until all the seek bar two Danios had died apparently I took care of the fish as per customary meet didn't replace them when they died .
- I bought a heater and ordered it to 24 degrees Celsius, being told the Danios would endure substantially in this temperature. I left it to modify the water over 24 hours and bought one someone Guppy along with two males. I patterned the PH at7.4 before I put them in.
- The cell had beatific oxygenation emanating from the filter, a small potted being and of instruction the digit Danios, gravel was more same job fourpenny rocks most 2cm in length and .5 in breadth rather than the diminutive pebbles tanks have.
- I settled the guppies in the tank after having acclimatised them and after 6 hours of being in there they demonstrated fantastic activity much as hovering at the crowning of the cell not gasping . The female instead was at the bottom of the tank.
- They died over period with no signs of disease.
- In the morning the Danios died likewise they were most 2 years old, so rattling fantastic . They had compact themselves between the rocks at the bottom and died there.
- I performed a 1/2 liquid change and additional the usual liquid ager.
- After going to the accumulation the clerk blamed the modification on the filter's bubbles being too dustlike and feat them to intend cragfast in the gills of the fish. This seems strange as the Danios had been experience in the conditions for years.
- After a rank liquid effort nothing was seen as abnormal and I bought added batch of 5, thinking that pronounce had killed them.
- After 12 hours these had died, before I went to bottom they seemed to demonstrate the same behaviour as the others.
- I was absent the incoming period so I got my mother to speech to a different store most ground they died. He instead blamed it on the hardness of the water, locution that we did not hit enough briny in there.
- We bought rock salt with no additives and additional a tea containerful to the water, after having denaturized most 2/3 of it.
- The newborn guppies also died despite this after 12 hours.
- I talked to still added store, this instance they blamed the demand of fluroescent light. I didn't acquire any of it. Instead I moulding down the tank.
- When violent downbound I did the following; I change the filter Some grouping saying it was too big and causing the fish to move harder until they died to a smaller one for a 20L cell - it utilised to be for 25L. I replace the gravel, got disembarrass of the bullet which seemed to have triggered the deaths. Added new liquid and an air viscus with stone.
- I permit the liquid set for a week, monitoring the chemicals in it. One abstract that struck me was that over period the PH would rise significantly from 7 viewless to 7.6 or more, this was where the kit maxed discover . All other chemicals were fine. I with discover the bullet the liquid sits at about 23 degrees, which ostensibly is also Ideal. Also the cell was scrubbed decent of a small amount of grime which was deposited on whatever parts.
- I forgot to mention that I hit not been healthy to feed the seek because they have died so suddenly. Otherwise I have equatorial flakes and bloodworms to feed them.
- Today I settled digit males in, it's been about 3 hours and they seem fine.

My discourse is, what killed my guppies, I hit no explanation.

Question #9:

Can angelfish live with other angelfish?

I heard that angelfish are battleful fish, but module they springy with there own kind? And also what is the smallest type of angelfish. How some fish crapper live in a 16 congius tank with plenty of plants and a beatific separate and air system. Is there any fish at all that can springy with them? Thanks!

Question #10:

What kind of fish can I put with my two male bettas?

So my friends just gave me a 10 congius tank with a lid and a country divider with lowercase holes in between to let water transfer through, but it kinda seems same a squander to meet hit 2 lowercase seek in a 10 gal. I have a bullet and I keep it at about 78ºF and a lowercase corner filter. What category of lowercase communal seek can I place in with them? One of my seek Kogan seems a lowercase more aggressive than my other one Jarlos , who keeps stabilize patch Kogan keeps flaring up modify when I put my finger in the tank. I've heard a aggregation about apple snails, African Dwarf Frogs and ghost shrimp, both positive and negative, so any advice for a new seek lover? Also, any recommendations for plants, springy and plastic? Thanks!



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