Being that I live in a condo that is rather on the small side and that one of my very good friends bought me a fish tank as a Christmas present a few years ago….I decided it was time to set up the tank and have pets to call my own.
I set it all up and put in the appropriate chemicals to neutralize the water. Waited a week and then I added some fish… 2 have since died, one from being attacked by another fish and the other for absolutely no foreseeable reason.
Our fish tank now holds – including the clean up crew we added this past week-end:
- 1 red brick swordtail “Rudder”
- 1 Mickey mouse platy ”Meanie”
- Two Cardinal Tertras “Huey” and “Lewis”
- 2 Ghost Shrimp
- 1 Common Pleco
- 2 Oto Catfish
We are pretty happy with our fish and they seem to have adapted nicely. We added some live plants with the first round of fish and they are looking really great in the tank.
The shrimp are pretty hard to find as they are actually see through. But we got the cheapest kind to see how they do, if they do well we will obviously keep them, but if not we will get a more durable kind of shrimp – the almond shrimp which changes colours depending on what it consumes.
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