can somebody advice me on small tank setup?

[yaroopig]

Hi all, I have a very small tank (about 6 inch, squarish) with guppies inside. As the tank is pretty small, putting in the smallest internal filter I can find already took up about 1/2 the space while an external filter sucks my little guppies up & killed them... Is it ok not to put any filter? Any advice on making my guppies healthy and happy?

I had 10 initially but almost 1 died everyday... so sad...[]

[theodore]

If you really want to keep your guppies happy, have less fishes in your tank or get a bigger tank.

[joe]

Yeah that's way too many fishes in one small mini tank. Without filter? Unless you change water every single day. C'mon, upgrade their "house" so cheap nowadays

[Goondoo]

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On 7/24/2003 10:07:30 AM

Hi all, I have a very small tank (about 6 inch, squarish) with guppies inside. As the tank is pretty small, putting in the smallest internal filter I can find already took up about 1/2 the space while an external filter sucks my little guppies up & killed them... Is it ok not to put any filter? Any advice on making my guppies healthy and happy?

I had 10 initially but almost 1 died everyday... so sad...[]
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Hi,
I'm assumming you are new to aquatic hobby. Please read up more on Nitrogen cycle, just do a search on the forum. I won't advise you to have more than one fish in the tank for now, or atleast the next few weeks. You may start adding one by one after 4-5 weeks up to not more than 4-5, to what I think.

[bclee]

Advice 1: get a bigger tank

Advice 2: read up on Nitrogen cycle. Here is one of it: http://faq.thekrib.com/begin-cycling.html

Advice 3: if you intend to keep your tiny tank, 2-3 fishes max.

BC

[geoffrey]

If you still insist on a small tank, high fish-load and without filters, can do. Have your tank covered with frogbits or duckweed or floating hornworts or hydrilla (CAM plants). They suck up what your guppies put in and they don't need external CO2. But must give light and occasional fertilising.

[PeterGwee]

Having high fish load in a small planted tank is definitely going to cause algae problems. Ammonia being the main factor..(Can you plant heavily? No space I guess or else where can your fishes swim?)..

[juggler]

You did not say it is a planted tank, so can just use an air pump to keep the water oxygenated. Don't take up much place as well.

[geoffrey]

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On 7/24/2003 1:20:41 PM

(Can you plant heavily? No space I guess or else where can your fishes swim?)..
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Peter, don't need to plant heavily lah, use floating ones. Have you seen a single rosette of pandan floating on styrofoam in Toh's tanks?

[bigjohnstud]

No mention in your text that it is a planted tank, thus I assume it is a bare-bottom cube with guppies?

Your current set-up is overloaded and if you are not changing water daily, your guppies is going to drop like flies.

Forget about the filter, just change water on every alternate day (50%). Reduce the number of guppies to 2 (max for your cube size). Feed moderately.

[Goondoo]

Cool it guys.... his post is in Fishkeeping, not planted tank....
Don't confuse him... hehe....

try using a sponge filter or those air accelerated filters... if u willing to maintain your water atleast once a week, using a airstone is more then enough.

[geoffrey]

I always feel that fishes and plants should co-exist. Plants are the best biological filters. Afterall someone will be giving away frogbits or duckweeds sometime. Pretty simply, just let them float in the tank.