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29 Gallon Tank Fish Choices...Opinions Please?

  • Ok I just bought a 29 Gallon Tank, filtration system, heater and all of the chemicals needed last night. My 2.5 yeah old son loves fish, this is for him. So I don't want to screw this up. Everything has been running well for about 24 hours now, I am thinking of bringing the first few fish home on Saturday after work which would be roughly 4 days after start up. The water is dechlorinated and the amonia is removed, my tap PH is 7.6 to 7.8 and it's holding at 77 degrees. I would love to lower the PH, but I'm not getting into that mess. I will add some peat and drift wood tomorrow, which is as far as I'm willing to go. Here is my fish plan. I've tried to pick a mix of top, middle and bottom swimmers and a few to help keep the tank clean. There is a large bridge that the fish can swim under and a big coral piece that they can hide in and swim through. 3 Dalmation Mollies 3 Ballon Belly Mollies 3 Rasbora Heteromorpha Danio 3 Scissor Tail Rasbora 3 Zebra Danio 3 Great Danio 5 Otocinclus (maybe) 1-2 Rubber Lip Pleco How does that look? Should I increase the Danios to 5-6 as they are smaller? If I have 5 Oto's, do I need the Pleco's? I hear they only get to 5-6 inches even though the big box pet stores claim 10. If I bumped all of them to 5 instead of 3 fish, would I be over crowding the tank? They all grow to between 2-4 inches max which seems quite small for a 29 Gallon. I picture them all taking up their own spots anyways and figure they might do better in packs of 5? Thanks in Advance, again this is all for my son. If I spend 200 bucks on fish, that's cool...just don't want them to all die in a week...

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    Ok first off all those fish are schooling fish that need 5-6 fish except the mollies. This is what you could do: 3 dalmation or balloon belly mollies 5-6 rasbora danios 5-6 zebra danios 5-6 otos 5-6 scissortails Good luck and i hope your son enjoys

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Hi, what fun setting up a new tank. Unfortunately, unless you want your first few fish to be sacrificial ones, (and that is generally considered to be cruel, yet so common, practice) then it is far too early to add fish. You need to age the tank for a few weeks before you add fish. So far, you've done everything right. Now, you need to gradually add some fish food, perhaps a piece of shrimp and let it rot down. You will get an ammonia spike first, and then your Nitrite levels will rise and quickly drop and finally your nitrate levels will increase. When your nitrate levels are settled, even though you are adding small bits of fish food each day, then your tank has enough bio-mass to cope with the fish waste that will be produced by a fish population. If you don't do this, then adding fish will immediately give you an ammonia and then nitrite spike and your fish will be poisoned. When you do add fish, add them in 2s and 3s leaving a few days between additions to make sure there are no spikes. If you grow plants in your tank, you can reduced this waiting time significantly, as plants absorb the nitrates that are produced. As for your stocking ideas, from memory some of those species are schooling and as a very general rule, schooling fish should be kept in minimum groups of 5 or 6. For a hundred litre tank, I would reduce the quantity of species and up the numbers per groups. They will display better, as schooling fish in small groups are shy and don't have good colour.

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