Keeping Tropical Fish

[Bsmithmilne]

How many of you do it, got any pictures of your set up

I have just bought a 240 litre tank not got anyfish yet going to be setting it up over the next week or so.

Hope to do this for a year or two then move to Marine

Anybody got any tips for starting out

Thanks

[ol]

Try using the search function - there was a topic exactly like this one about 3 weeks ago with some nice photos and information.

Just make sure you cycle the tank for a couple of weeks first to let the bacteria grow, and add fish slowly rather than getting them all at once.



In fact, here you go:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Edited by ol on Wednesday 1st April 14:51

[Dupont666]

http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums

is a great place for info

[Iain328]

Bsmithmilne said:

How many of you do it, got any pictures of your set up

I have just bought a 240 litre tank not got anyfish yet going to be setting it up over the next week or so.

Hope to do this for a year or two then move to Marine

Anybody got any tips for starting out

Thanks

Google for "the Nitrogen Cycle" & then read learn and understand the process of the chemical transistions that go on in the tank from crap to Ammonia to Nitrites to Nitrates.

The Ammonia and Nitrites are lethal to fish & the Nitrate levels need to be managed also.

Do NOT just throw a load of fish in the tank - they will die. Go slowly & don't be alarmed if it suddenly goes cloudy in a week or two (its a bacterial "bloom").

If you want to have plants then suggest you use sand rather than gravel (unless you are planning to run an under gravel filter).

Avoid anything driven by air pumps if you can - I find them irritatingly noisy.

I.

[ehonda]

My Cichlid tank is much less hassle to keep clean than my community tank, I'd recommend at least looking into keeping Cichlids.
They do like to breed though....