Danger!! 3 Completely new Fish Tanks

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Danger! Completely new fish tanks. 3

Cory Catfish, Siamese fighting fish/ Betta fish and probably your African Dwarf Frog and others will not tolerate high levels of ‘ammonia’ and ‘nitrites’ that occur in new tanks.

So what do you do?

Well, one of the solutions is to buy a couple of ‘hardy’ fish to help establish the biological cycle in the tank.

These are certain types of fish that can tolerate the higher amounts of toxins present in the new tank while it is cycling.

Some of these types of hardy fish are female Guppies, blue and yellow Gouramis and Zebra Danios.

You may not want to get any of these if you looking at Cory Catfish, Betta fish/ Siamese fighting fish etc.

I then suggest that you set up your tank without any fish for a couple of weeks.

Usually it will take about 6-8 weeks to cycle your new tank. So, no fish added for the first 6-8 weeks or so.

You can buy a special kit at your local pet store, if you do not want to wait that long.
These kits contain special chemicals that get added to the water to ‘cycle’ the new tank.

These chemicals are similar to the ones that are produced by your fish that would be living in your new tank. These kits should have instructions on how to use them.

One of these kits is called ‘CYCLE’, (biological water conditioner,) and this product inoculates newly established aquariums with appropriate living beneficial bacteria.

Remember to apply these solutions before you purchase your Cory Catfish, Betta fish/ Siamese fighting fish, or African Dwarf Frog, and you should have great success from the beginning.

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http://africandwarffrogworld.blogspot.com/

http://corycatfish.blogspot.com/

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