Tropical Fish

[T_J_G]

60 I think

[golf-sib]

I got my rod licence and the batter mix ready, let me know if its cool to pop round and have the deep fat fryer on 

On a serious note, any tips with ponds, I got like 6/7 fish that live in the "swamp" and have been alive and living, only discovered them recently?

[T_J_G]

There's not much meat on a neon tetra!

[VW BUSH]

There's not much meat on a neon tetra!

do em up like white bait and provide a chilli dip

[T_J_G]

Water is in, just got to wait for the levels to settle then its fish time.

[old_n07]

if you know someone who aready has a tropical set up you could speed up the cycling of your tank if they would give you half of a filter sponge out of their filter (presuming they have a filter that uses multiple sponges so theirs won't be effected by the gift) as it will already have nitrifiing bacteria on it

[T_J_G]

We've used some cycling stuff to get it going, have fed the tank as well.

Should be 'ready' in 24 hours, but want to get a test kit.

[tintin63]

The worst thing about cycling the tank is one day it'll look fine but the very next it can spike badly, likewise when you first introduce live stock to it.

I used to keep a topaz puffer along with some danios ect. Awesome little fella but damn he was messy.

[T_J_G]

Update: we have the 60l up and running with some guppies, tetra and rummy noses. We're going to add some gourami (probably a pair) as we've just upgraded to this tank and stand

http://www.petplanet.co.uk/product.asp?dept_id=3365&pf_id=51037

We've also got a betta (male fighting fish) I'm a small tank. We ordered him off the net and the postman brought him

Think someone has caught the fish keeping bug 

[clipperjay]

Didn't even know this thread was around!
There is hope on this forum for fishy lovers!
The fishyness cycle as it called is the nitrogen cycle and getting PH values right and constant is half the battle & fun.
I would look into plants and decent co2 set  up for tropical. Plants really help with algae build up and removing the Ammonia nitrates. Removing 10% of old water and wash the filters out in it is the best course and then top up with DE-chlorinated water after. Api do a good testing kit for around £18 which has about 10 tests to work out the eco system.
I leave at least one week before sticking fishes into a tank and the last day I would transfer the old filter from the old tank to spread good bacteria into the new eco system to speed things up!