hey everyone!
so..i know i haven't been on TFK for AAAAGES. and i figured it was time for an update...
first, some bad news...since i was last on here, my little female cambodian betta, flame, died. i'd been on holidays and kind of neglected her tank so when i came back, i found her tank almost completely overrun by green algae and flame looking sickly. i cleaned the tank out, put some melafix in and hoped it would help (she was covered in sort of gold dust stuff so i thought she might have velvet disease) but she died after a few weeks, even though the gold stuff disappeared. :-( my fault for neglecting her i guess. poor little fishy
on the other hand, my main tank is still running really well. fingers crossed. there's a piccy of it attached at the bottom of this post. the plants are really flourishing and a friend gave me some hygrophila as a birthday present last year and it looks great, which surprised me because i'd read hygrophilas needed strong light. (the only lighting over my tank is the bulb that lights the entire room).
anyway, i've finally got to the point where i might actually be able to buy more fish to put in my main tank, which has only really had the gourami in it since i set it up in july last year. for some reason until now, there's always been something or other that's made me have to put off adding any more fish. but at the moment, the tank's well established, i'm not going on holiday any time soon, and i have enough money to afford the fish and maybe a gravel vacuum as well..which is something i've been dreaming of owning ever since i first saw one in a fishkeeping book
i do have just one concern though. the fish i want to get are a shoal of 6 cherry barbs and a bristlenose plec (already discussed in several other threads on this site). but i'm worried that the gourami will be agrressive towards them. she's been alone in the tank for a long time, and when i had corys with her they could barely eat because even if i gave her flakes at the top of the tank, she'd always find their sinking tablets far more interesting :-? i'm worried she'll just be really competitive with the other fish for food. any advice?
so..i know i haven't been on TFK for AAAAGES. and i figured it was time for an update...
first, some bad news...since i was last on here, my little female cambodian betta, flame, died. i'd been on holidays and kind of neglected her tank so when i came back, i found her tank almost completely overrun by green algae and flame looking sickly. i cleaned the tank out, put some melafix in and hoped it would help (she was covered in sort of gold dust stuff so i thought she might have velvet disease) but she died after a few weeks, even though the gold stuff disappeared. :-( my fault for neglecting her i guess. poor little fishy
on the other hand, my main tank is still running really well. fingers crossed. there's a piccy of it attached at the bottom of this post. the plants are really flourishing and a friend gave me some hygrophila as a birthday present last year and it looks great, which surprised me because i'd read hygrophilas needed strong light. (the only lighting over my tank is the bulb that lights the entire room).
anyway, i've finally got to the point where i might actually be able to buy more fish to put in my main tank, which has only really had the gourami in it since i set it up in july last year. for some reason until now, there's always been something or other that's made me have to put off adding any more fish. but at the moment, the tank's well established, i'm not going on holiday any time soon, and i have enough money to afford the fish and maybe a gravel vacuum as well..which is something i've been dreaming of owning ever since i first saw one in a fishkeeping book
i do have just one concern though. the fish i want to get are a shoal of 6 cherry barbs and a bristlenose plec (already discussed in several other threads on this site). but i'm worried that the gourami will be agrressive towards them. she's been alone in the tank for a long time, and when i had corys with her they could barely eat because even if i gave her flakes at the top of the tank, she'd always find their sinking tablets far more interesting :-? i'm worried she'll just be really competitive with the other fish for food. any advice?