After visiting the
aquarium where my grandma at the beginning of the summer I began thinking
about starting my very own fresh water tank. After saving up $210 for
a 50 gallon tank I started landscaping with lace rock, plants and drift
wood (another $100)I purchased seven red wag platys to start the nitrate
cycle before adding expensive fish. Now I have ten platys when I woke
up one morning. Now the cycle is set and its time to return the platys(which
is hard to do now that I am attached to them. So I went fishing with
my net but ten platys in a 50 gallon tank can be a tricky game of tag
after an hour I retrieved nine of them and left one of the fry in the
tank. I returned home from the pet store with five boesmani rainbow
fish and a rubber plecostomus. After acclimating the rainbows I sat
down to watch the platy react to the new tank mates. The rainbows ignored
the platy except for the occasional chase. A week or two later I return
home from the pet store with a black ghost knife and a bumble bee Gobi.(There
is salt in the tank) and two green spotted leopard puffers(which I have
heard are aggressive). All seems fine for another five weeks or so and
the platys color is solid and it has grown to about 3/4 of an inch.
Next trip to the store I have a knew clown knife which is by far my
favorite. I hear they get huge so I will move it into my 200 gallon
tank after its juvenile stage. They all live happily now and its been
about thirteen weeks the platy is on no ones menu and he plays with
the rainbows and the Gobi. So they live happily ever after... for now
I did move the clown knife he grew a foot off of the five inches he
was when I got him...
After visiting the
aquarium where my grandma at the beginning of the summer I began thinking
about starting my very own fresh water tank. After saving up $210 for
a 50 gallon tank I started landscaping with lace rock, plants and drift
wood (another $100)I purchased seven red wag platys to start the nitrate
cycle before adding expensive fish. Now I have ten platys when I woke
up one morning. Now the cycle is set and its time to return the platys(which
is hard to do now that I am attached to them. So I went fishing with
my net but ten platys in a 50 gallon tank can be a tricky game of tag
after an hour I retrieved nine of them and left one of the fry in the
tank. I returned home from the pet store with five boesmani rainbow
fish and a rubber plecostomus. After acclimating the rainbows I sat
down to watch the platy react to the new tank mates. The rainbows ignored
the platy except for the occasional chase. A week or two later I return
home from the pet store with a black ghost knife and a bumble bee Gobi.(There
is salt in the tank) and two green spotted leopard puffers(which I have
heard are aggressive). All seems fine for another five weeks or so and
the platys color is solid and it has grown to about 3/4 of an inch.
Next trip to the store I have a knew clown knife which is by far my
favorite. I hear they get huge so I will move it into my 200 gallon
tank after its juvenile stage. They all live happily now and its been
about thirteen weeks the platy is on no ones menu and he plays with
the rainbows and the Gobi. So they live happily ever after... for now
I did move the clown knife he grew a foot off of the five inches he
was when I got him...
