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30 Gallon Freshwater Tank

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#1 ·
Well this will be my 30 Gallon goldfish tank, gonna giver about another week for everything to settle before I put some of the fish in...

Lemme know what you think, once again I stayed away from "live" plants and wood just because I don't really have the time to take care of the tank all the time.

Hope you all enjoy!
 

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I do have one question, this happens to my everytime I put 100% new water into a tank and let it sit a week before I put any fish in.

The water turns foggy after two days of it being crystal clear....except its been about 6 days and the foggy water isnt gone in my 30 G yet...any advice...
 
#7 ·
sounds like a bacterial bloom to me,
it should however clear it's self,i'm not sure if running activated carbon would help.
 
#8 ·
You don't have to do this, but I would reccomend doing a fishless cycle, or putting in only 2-3 fish every few weeks cuz 9 goldies strait away will be alot to handle, but if you add them in add seperate times it should work a little better, but cycleing the tank before fish is prly the best solution
 
#10 ·
Well today had some unfortunate events, I had a final today at university but I couldn't do anything about it today, but I was going to put 3 fish in today to get the cycle process going, however I noticed my dresser was all wet, to my surprise the tank is leaking!! Well I bought this tank used off of kijiji, go figures something happens...

So tomorrow I will be spending my day removing all of the water, plants, ornaments and gravel, to attempt to silicon the glass together properly.

Anyone have any better ideas?

Blahhhhh
 
#12 ·
1) What are the dimensions of that tank? It doesn't look like a 30G to me, but I can be wrong.
2) You need more surface agitation for goldies
3) I see no heater. You still need one, not for heat, but to keep the temperature steady.
4) How many goldies are you getting? Only 1, maybe 2 or 3 can go in there.
 
#13 ·
Alright, my bad...the tank wasn't leaking..there was some water stuck behind the background and it finally dropped out from behind the background..thank god!!

I have 9 goldfish going into this 30G tank, there IS enough room, these goldfish are not that big. Also goldfish run off of room temperature water, therefore a heater won't be necessary. I do have a heater tho, But I'm not putting it in as of now.

I have re filled some of the water in the tank to remove the foggy water, it has turned clear again. I have now put my sisters 6 common goldfish into the tank, they were once in a 10 gallon. They are now in the 30 gallon. They look alot happier!!

I'm going to wait another week before I add my orandas and black moor!

Finally got it going I'm happy!
 
#24 ·
Looks good if you're into neon. I'm more into the natural habitat looking theme but appreciate what you did with yours.
My bf bought me a 45 gal. hex for christmas with natural gravel substrate but the gravel had a s-load of bright blue stones in it. After I priced the gravel that I wanted to replace it with, I decided to pick out each piece of blue gravel instead. It took us most of a Sunday to do it. Call me a freak but I couldn't live with it.
 
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