Gilraen Took

The pictures SUCK. I wish I had my old phone's camera, it was better than the "updated" version is

Anyway. . .

The tank is 60 gallons and will be the permanent home for 3 fantail goldfish, a striped raphael cat and as long as they don't start to bully the goldies, the 6 rosy barbs that I got as dither fish for my old oscar(he was given away because after nearly 5 months he was still a recluse, and the opposite of why I got an oscar. Took me a while after it was suggested to me to actually give him up, and even though I liked him, with his attitude there was no way I was going to be THAT motivated to spend 4 hours a week cleaning a tank for a fish that hated me. It's a longer story than that, but that's the basics of it. . .) and some random little cichlid who the story of is at the bottom of the post.

Plants(so far) are some floating anacharis and water sprite to be munched on(am still looking for other cheap plants to float for them to munch on) and java ferns, anubias barteri regular, nana and petite, a couple of moss balls, some bolbitis, and a few small crypts.

The tank's equipment/decor is a rena xp3, a few pieces of wood that have the plants tied to them, and most of the bottom is covered with sand with slate tiles over it. Easier to clean, in theory. Right now I've only got 30 watts of NO light but can't seem to figure out how much light altogether I can put onto it without needing co2 and ferts. I was thinking just combine the 30 watts on one side and pick up a small pc or t5 light for the other???


FTS


Closer on the left


Closer on the right


Le Bottom.


The mystery guy in the best shot I've gotten of him so far. When he's got his fins out, he LOOKS like an African Cichlid. BUT he arrived with the feeder minnows at a local store. . . He's getting lighter in colour, from really dark grey to now a medium one, he's got some vertical striping and his fins have a light blue edge on the fronts of them. I'm assuming that the fish breeders wouldn't be dumb enough to put a more expensive fish into a feeder pond, but no clue what he is if not. The only other non-minnows they usually get in with them are crawdads, tadpoles and mosquito fish. So until he starts going after the goldfish he stays with them, after he goes into my crawdad's tank until he starts to try to go after her(he's half her size right now) and then he gets given to whoever wants him. Not a clue myself *shrugs*

bratyboy2

the mystery guy looks like a blue gill to me. its a pond/lake fish they get kinda nasty

Gilraen Took

I dunno. He may be. Do they get fatter though? All the pictures of them I've seen(going by common and scientific name) have been really tall fish, and he's kinda short. Anyway, as I said, I'm keeping an eye on him to make sure he doesn't get too aggressive towards the goldies and if he does he gets moved OUT of the tank. Though if he's going to get to be a foot long I may need to start searching for a big tank/rubbermaid tub to toss him into.

Afyounie

Um, from what I can see, that mystery guy kinda looks like a lake victoria hap. Then again bratyboy could be right that it is a blue gill, as cichlids look very similar to bass, blue gill, etc.

jazzlvr123

a guppy mixed with goldfish, that wont last long only if your doing gaily water changes goldfish have very acidic waste/poop which usually kill off most tropical species of fish id keep a close eye on that guy

Gilraen Took

Yeah. I do small daily water changes(5 gallons for now, 10 once they start getting bigger, cuts down on needing to do the huge water changes which take forever and are iffy at my apartment since our water heater goes out a LOT and when it does all you can get is water that would be warmer out of the fridge), plus the guppies are all already about a year old or so, so by the time the goldfish get to be big waste makers the guppies should all be dead of old age. Which is why I mentioned that it'll just be for the goldfish and barbs and possibly the little grey guy. All of the guppies are older and male, so I won't need to worry about it. The guppies were in my planted tank, but I found a male plakat betta and was struck with a desire for him(he's handsome and I've wanted a plakat FOREVER) and since I didn't have any spare tanks put him in the community tank. I figure he'd likely be good with the tetras, but didn't want to risk the guppies being torn to shreds by the betta. Who so far hasn't cared about the tetras(crosses fingers) They're just the older guppies from when I had the 60 gallon as my planted tank and I'd decided a long time ago to just keep my tetras and not get any more guppies