quarintine tank

[cosplayboy69]

nice, are those guppy fry im seeing? nice assortment of fish!

[mikaila31]

@cosplayboy69 endlers of various ages

[FlamingoIII]

What did the embers cost?

[mikaila31]

Probably $4 each. I sell fish and plants to the store and get store credit for them, though. So in my world, I traded a couple endlers for each of them.

[FlamingoIII]

So what tank do they go into. For that tank is a bit over stocked. Unless you want to do a lot of water changes I would add some anarchin plant to obsorb the toxins.

Love the Embry tetra. How much did they cost?

[mikaila31]

Embers and rummies went in the 55gal. Gerturdae rainbows went in my 20gal. Pygmy cories and frogs stayed in the 15 gal.

[stephster575]

What are you treating them for?

By the way, I think that tank is bigger than 15 gallons. My tank is 16 gallons, and it is tiny compared to that. I even did the measurements and calculations.

[mikaila31]

I wasn't really treating them for anything. This is when I had just bought them, all my new fish spend 2 weeks in quarantine before being transferred to the main tank. This group of fish was really healthy, I only lost one RNT and one frog. The tank said 15gal on it when I bought it, I've never calculated it myself. The tanks dimensions are 2'x1'x1'. I call it my whatever tank, use it for quarantine, medicating, fry, and unwanted fish. Right now there are about 80 young endlers in it.

[stephster575]

Oh! I never considered that! lol =)

Well, I'll do those calculation now.

Hm, that is 15 gallons. Weird. It looks like a 30 gallon! lol =)

[chris90282]

over populated

[pikk01]

Nice fish :) I've been looking into starting a 20 gallon long with ember tetras and pygmy corys. Where did you get your pygmy corys? I'm having a heck of a time trying to find them locally or even online

[Dubshs13]

ya dont think its a tad bit overstocked..do we 15 gallons not enough room for all 50 of those fish. Imma need you to do a lil research on how many fish per gallon...;-)

[mikaila31]

You do know that the fish per gallon rule is BS. Stocking depends on much more then just how many gallons you have. I do agree that the tank is overstocked. This is a quarantine tank though these fish will only spend two weeks in there before being moved to other tanks around my house. There are a lot more then 50 fish in there too. It is not something I would recommend to inexperienced people.

[CaDiLaCxPiMp]

This may be a lil late but my LFS store said for tetras it's 2 inch of tetra per gallon. Only tetra though...