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Hello everyone,
We're starting an aquarium! Our daughter(2 y/o) absolutely loves "fishies" and since we both had an aquarium growing up, (him more so than me, his father used to have show tanks  we decided that a fish tank would be a good pet for her. I've been researching different species for a community tank. Currently we have a 30 gallon tank just about ready to start the danios to cycle. Currently have a Penguin Biowheel 150 filter and 'most' of the decorations set up. We're still waiting on our main decoration to come in. Anyways, we are planning on a couple gourami, either honey sunset or pearl, a group of bleeding heart tetras, and either some cory catfish(panda are my favs altho a little more challenging compared to the common cory), or some kuhli loaches. Also depending on how things are going we may add some harliquin rasorbas. I'm not planning on overstocking the tank. some of the fish are just conditional i.e. rasorbas or tetras, and loaches or catfish.
Any thoughts? I know these are pretty basic, but its been a long time since either of us has cared for fish.
Thanks!
Eric & Chelsae
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Thank you! After a quick trip to Teske's to grab our danios, I've decided on the harleys and panda corys 
Was kinda nervous about actually putting the fish in the tank, but the group of three that we've got are looking good, still swimming in their little pack and their blue stripes are getting brighter.
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The ammonia spiked this morning up to 4ppm. Yesterday it was sitting at .5ppm I've been adding Stress Zyme off and on since starting the tank, so I added some this morning after the test. Danios are looking good still. I picked up a pair of blueish looking snails for the time being. Water was a little cloudy for a few days, but then removed a rock that Eric decided to add without testing/cleaning first and all is good now. Also, I'm not sure whats going on with my thermometer(outside on the glass) but its not reading very well. I have to look really close to see what temp it is... This morning the water seemed really warm, and my heater was on. Temp was reading at 80, so I decided to unplug the heater, in case it malfunctioned today, and bumped up the temp in the house to 77 so they should be fine.
Made a trip to Teske's last night with a friend, They have Altolamprologus Calvus (see I'm learning scientific names I think those are awesome! Eric's becoming a fan as well. Would definately be looking into some shellies with them. I'm liking the Neolamprologus Similis for shellies, although it looks like they are harder to come by.
So I guess this tank is starting to go in a Mommy & Daddy's tank rather than our daughters. She has been enjoying watching & feeding them tho. And coincedentally, each fish is named "Mermaid"
I've been using the API Ammonia tests, and a general strip for the others, which to me seems hard to determine where the values fall for nitrate/nitrite, hardness, ph etc. Hasn't been an issue so far, because the nitrate/ nitrite is sitting at 0, but once the ammonia backs down, It would be nice to have a more accurate way of testing the water.
Anyone in Moline notice how hard our water is?
Anyone have any good test kits that they feel works?
Thanks all!
and P.S. Bryan(bbbthebest) I still am interested in those caves/plants. Just having a hard time after work lately. Eric has been working late, and I've been having to pick up the baby from daycare. One of these days I'll get over there!
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