Huge Columbian Tetra for sale at Tyne Valley Aquatics

Monster Columbian Tetra at Tyne Valley Aquatics. 01661 844 005 http://www.tynevalleyaquatics.co.uk

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Pets & Animals

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• tetra
• tropical
• fish
• newcastle
• manchester
• liverpool
• birmingham
• london
• pondguru
• tyne
• valley

[animalmastermtd]

How big do these get?

[pondguru]

Around 2.5" which is about where this fella is at now.

[blownable]

I believe I've gotcha. Kudos.

[pondguru]

Tetra do a similar product in this country. For someone who is experienced and can test the water daily during set up fish can be chucked straight in but when we sell fish we give a 48 hour guarantee with them. Most people start with a few tetra / rasbora etc. so we need to give the water a chance to settle, the bogwood to reduce pH (ours is about 7.6-7.8 in most of England) and conditions to be stable and not vastly different from the retail tanks for best survival rates.

Slow + steady policy

[blownable]

Water conditioners like Prime, and novaqua work on chorine instantly. Additionally, with no ammonia producer in his water, the guy could wait for a year, but his tank still would not establish a bacteria colony.

[pondguru]

There had been no chemicals added to remove the chlorine in tap water and no bacteria added to set up the filter. Fish going from a settled tank with suitable water would curl up if they got dropped into tap water and then it would have been "that fish shop was crap - my fish died after a day" The filter takes months to colonise fully with bacteria so the slow set up is what we practice and advise to prevent large swings in water conditions and lost fish.

[blownable]

I don't get it. Unless he's running a fishless cycle, the only point of not getting fish immediately to introduce an ammonia source into the water would be the stabilization of temperature, and making sure the filter is running smoothly. Surely a week is too long for that.

[pondguru]

If the fish comes from us originally we do try to check that if it is a large species they have space for it and understand the care needed. Some people think its like the Spanish Inquisition when we're selling fish but its for the best.

We had one customer leave in a foul mood because we told him his tank should run for at least a week and wouldn't sell him fish for a tank that he set up a day previously. Another sale for Pets at Home there then....................

[itsbadlands]

@pondguru wow!Didn't realize they got that big.

[animalmastermtd]

@pondguru That's awesome of you to that!