hi!!! Newbie in aquarium.

**johnny25** · 7th Jun 2012, 13:23

hi, newbie in aquarium. Started with guppies few weeks back and now just started a tank with plecos. Shall post my some of pics later for comments and hope to learn from the veterans here. Cheers.

**Cyberkinetic** · 7th Jun 2012, 17:55

Hi, newbie too... Welcome.

Cheers.

**wongce** · 7th Jun 2012, 18:40

Welcome,guppies are great starter fish...i Hope you are mentally prepared for a hoard of guppy frys once they stabilized...haha

**des-cindy** · 7th Jun 2012, 20:53

hi, me also a newble here , there alots of things to learn about in this forum, WELCOME

**johnny25** · 8th Jun 2012, 00:08

Hi, nice to meet u guys too, hope we can share our passion here. Cheers.

**sams** · 8th Jun 2012, 01:37

Hello,
I am new as well. New to this forum, but not to the fish hobby. I had goldfish, tropical fish and now cichlids. I use dot work in fish store too and learnt alot during that time. That was several years ago and perhaps my knowledge is outdated now, but a few years back is tarted a website to refer customer who came into the store about information on new aquariums. If you would like to take a peek at what I made, please look at http://newaquariuminformation.com for a few things that may be of use. The most popular section is the cloudy and green water sections as so many people would flood into the store telling me of this problem!

**tetrakid** · 8th Jun 2012, 10:37

That's a nice site and I have bookmarked it.

Have you come across any filter which can filter green water, but not with UV? It will be nice to know of such a filter.

Originally Posted by sams

Hello,
I am new as well. New to this forum, but not to the fish hobby. I had goldfish, tropical fish and now cichlids. I use dot work in fish store too and learnt alot during that time. That was several years ago and perhaps my knowledge is outdated now, but a few years back is tarted a website to refer customer who came into the store about information on new aquariums. If you would like to take a peek at what I made, please look at http://newaquariuminformation.com for a few things that may be of use. The most popular section is the cloudy and green water sections as so many people would flood into the store telling me of this problem!

**des-cindy** · 9th Jun 2012, 21:52

hello, i also a newbie here, hope you enjoy your stay here in this forum... welcome...

**tetrakid** · 10th Jun 2012, 19:35

I've kept guppies many many years ago. I used to keep them in a rusty 4-gallon paint can, in which they thrived so well that I have to scoop up their fry almost every other day.

But nowadays, I prefer other fish because Guppy fins these days have become so large that the poor little fish have problems balancing and swimming properly. Another reason is that they spend almost every minute of their lives breeding, lol. But the most attractive thing about Guppies is their superb color.

Originally Posted by wongce

Welcome,guppies are great starter fish...i Hope you are mentally prepared for a hoard of guppy frys once they stabilized...haha

**johnny25** · 11th Jun 2012, 12:20

Nice to meet u guys!! Anyone into catfish??

**sams** · 11th Jun 2012, 23:49

Originally Posted by tetrakid

That's a nice site and I have bookmarked it.

Have you come across any filter which can filter green water, but not with UV? It will be nice to know of such a filter.

You can spray a sticky product on your filter pad (can't think oif the name now) to filter it out but it won't completely solve the problem. A diatom filter would work.

Whatever you do it will eventually come back though.

**matdiu** · 22nd Jun 2012, 14:24

Originally Posted by johnny25

Nice to meet u guys!! Anyone into catfish??

Im into Corys. They're nice and cute esp if you are using Sand as a base. Strongly recommended as they stuff their head to their sand, also helps to clean the sand of any uneaten food.

**johnny25** · 24th Jun 2012, 11:25

Originally Posted by matdiu

Im into Corys. They're nice and cute esp if you are using Sand as a base. Strongly recommended as they stuff their head to their sand, also helps to clean the sand of any uneaten food.

I keeping zebra plecos l46 now, maybe in future I try to keep corys. Sounds cute when they actually stuff their head into the sand

**tetrakid** · 24th Jun 2012, 11:44

Do you mind to check the name of that sticky product that is sprayed on the filter pad? I am very keen about how to solve thick green water problem. I like green water but need to control the concentration of the green Algae. Thanks.

Originally Posted by sams

You can spray a sticky product on your filter pad (can't think oif the name now) to filter it out but it won't completely solve the problem. A diatom filter would work.

Whatever you do it will eventually come back though.