Krynne
04-09-2012, 10:59 PM
Greetings, folks! I'm slowly researching some ideas on how to take care of some wee fish my son was gifted with today (he's 22 so not a young'un LOL), though it is a tad confusing.
From what I have been able to discover, I think what we have are: a jet black coloured Bubble Eye goldfish, a very orange coloured Wen Goldfish, two plecos, and two dark shelled snails... though I'm not too sure what kind of snails they are. Apparently they were all living happily together in the tank for weeks previous so I'm assuming they are ok to stay together.
My son took them in as the gent who had them decided he didn't want them anymore and was about to toss them down the toilet! My son "rescued" them form that fate and brought them home. They look quite healthy and are quite active, happily swimming around the large transparent bucket my son placed them in and have even had a bit of a nibble on some food I gave them a while ago.
I'm very new to fish raising... my father used to have several tanks of both freshwater and saltwater fish when I was much younger, but I rarely did anything with them myself except give them a bit of food on occasion. I could't even tell you what all the types were he had other than one or two species LOL!
I do know that the wee container our little fishies are currently swimming about in is probably not that good for them. I'm very curious as to what sort of things I'll be needing to get in order to make our new little friends happy, such as a size of a tank, whether to get live plants or fake, if they should have a bubbler or not, and what kind of filter to get for the tank.
If anyone has any suggestions as to what we should do for our new little swimmers (and if there is anything I haven't thought of here) I would greatly appreciate the help! Thanks much!
Edited to add: Just thought I'd point out the fish in my avatar are the fish we have :) Hope that helps a bit too!
From what I have been able to discover, I think what we have are: a jet black coloured Bubble Eye goldfish, a very orange coloured Wen Goldfish, two plecos, and two dark shelled snails... though I'm not too sure what kind of snails they are. Apparently they were all living happily together in the tank for weeks previous so I'm assuming they are ok to stay together.
My son took them in as the gent who had them decided he didn't want them anymore and was about to toss them down the toilet! My son "rescued" them form that fate and brought them home. They look quite healthy and are quite active, happily swimming around the large transparent bucket my son placed them in and have even had a bit of a nibble on some food I gave them a while ago.
I'm very new to fish raising... my father used to have several tanks of both freshwater and saltwater fish when I was much younger, but I rarely did anything with them myself except give them a bit of food on occasion. I could't even tell you what all the types were he had other than one or two species LOL!
I do know that the wee container our little fishies are currently swimming about in is probably not that good for them. I'm very curious as to what sort of things I'll be needing to get in order to make our new little friends happy, such as a size of a tank, whether to get live plants or fake, if they should have a bubbler or not, and what kind of filter to get for the tank.
If anyone has any suggestions as to what we should do for our new little swimmers (and if there is anything I haven't thought of here) I would greatly appreciate the help! Thanks much!
Edited to add: Just thought I'd point out the fish in my avatar are the fish we have :) Hope that helps a bit too!