Sport Fishing – Passion of Brian

New Freshwater Aquarium help plz?

I bought a 10 gallon Aquarium Kit and some additional equipments yesterday from Petco yesterday. (I would have bought a bigger tank, but my dorm doesn’t allow any tank over10 gallon)

1.) your tank is absolutely fine

Preparing a tank setup:
*wash everything with cold water, including the tank itself, the filter cartridge and especially the gravel, your heater needs to be washed off with warm water but not hot
*Put everything in your tank, fill up the tank with water, turn on your filter and your heater (set at 78 degrees)

Things you need to get after about 2 days of the setup
* Ammonia, pH and Nitrite test kit
* Aqua Safe (Water conditioner)
* Gravel siphon
* Real plants
* maybe some decorations if you want them ( but don’t forget that you have to wash them off before you put them in)
* not necessary but very helpful, a timer (you leave your light on for 10-12 hours during the day and 12-14 hours off at night)
* a couple of zebra danios (these are the fish you start your cycle with)
* food for your danios

Here is some info on cycling a tank with fish

http://www.firsttankguide.net/cycle.php

http://www.firsttankguide.net/cloudywater.php

Check your water regularly, and after your tank is fully cycled, that means no more nitrites in your tank, you can start adding more fish to it

You should also do weekly partial waterchanges of 25% with a gravel siphon

Don’t overfeed your fish, put only as much food as they will eat in 3-5 min at a time

Also don’t put yout tank near a window where the sun can get to eat, because that will cause algae growth

Any time you buy fish, you have to float the bag with the fish for at least 30 minutes in your tank that your fish can acclimate to the new water temperature

Hope that helps
Good luck and have fun

EB

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