New Fish Tank

[Dedpuhl]

My dad bought a 55 gallon fish tank and has started buying fish. Are there any good online resources that talk about good fish to put in the tank? And what are some good fish to get that enteract "nicely" with each other...

 

[Valhalla1]

i dont know jack about fish.. but you might ask forum elite member John. last time I was at his place, he had a couple HUGE fish tanks with a lot of fish.. pretty cool

 

[yakko]

Salmon and rainbow trout are great together. Especially with a nice lemon butter sauce.

 

[Dedpuhl]

Salmon and rainbow trout are great together. Especially with a nice lemon butter sauce

Neffing at its finest...



Some of those fish that are in the tank now seem like they are on crack.

 

[Delusion2001]

www.thatfishplace.com <--resource to books and supplies

get some books on it. btw, is this a warm water or a cold water? you seirously need to get a book on this. i remember one book that stated their temperament, but i forgot what it was called.

ask the guy at the store if they are agressive or not. you dont' want agressive fish cuz they will mess things up

tetras are nice, loaches, barbs, algea eaters, etc (tetras are VERY popular, beautiful, and cheap)

good luck

 

[Dedpuhl]

is this a warm water or a cold water

Well I'm not sure. This is my dad's &quot;project.&quot; He did say the ladies at the pet store told him to keep the water around 80 degrees.

 

[Azraele]

Try getting swordtails, guppies, and neons. They're neat fish and when I had a tank, all interacted nicely.

 

[LordMaul]

Hmm....

I only like to eat one kind of fish at a time, so I dunno what fish go good together.

 

[Pepsi90919]

you mean freshwater or saltwater, right?

 

[Dedpuhl]

His setup is for freshwater fish

 

[rhinox99]

Where can I find some info about how to correclty condition water? My fish are always swimming like they're kinda drunk and they don't move around much

 

[crab]

buy an electric catfish

 

[Zoltar]

Nice thing to start off with is fancy goldfish. Hardly (if any) temperature/water maintenance.

55 is big. You can put a ton of fancy tailed guppies, swordtails, mollies, and other live bearing tropicals.

It so hard to say what you should start with. Having a 55 gallon, you can start almost anywhere, from the aforementioned fisn to Arrowanas, Discus, Oscars...I can't even start.

Salt water used to have the rep of being to hard to maintain. This has gone by the wayside with new techniques and technology. Saltwater is still expensive. Unless you want to start with a few damsels.

To give you specific links? Nyahh. Type 'aquarium' at any search engine.

 

[Mistah Magik]

Get some sharks and put your dad in there...