I LOVE MY AQUARIUM!!!

Today for Christmas I got a 20 gallon Tetra aquarium starter kit. I had had my eye on this particular product for a while, and was overly excited when I got it this morning. ITS GIGANTIC!!! Now, I've never owned anything bigger then 5 gallons before, but I have seen lots of my friends' 30-50 gallon tanks and this one looks just as big. I have to finish making my bookshelf appropriate to hold it before I can add water, but I'm excited to see how it turns out. I'm going to stock with 3-5 female guppies and 1-2 male guppies whose breeds I haven't determined yet and maybe won't till I get to the pet store. I also plan to get a school of tetras. Yes, I know they are sometimes nippy and sometimes not, so I'm planning on getting 7-9 of them to try and keep nipping at a minimum. Lastly, I'm thinking of 3 Kuhli Loaches and some shrimp to be my bottom dwellers.
I'm so excited to get started!!!

minnow fry (or really any minnow) food recipe

Hello all! Today I'll be sharing a recipe for food for your minnow fry- or adult minnows for that matter. I've seen lots of recipes so this is mine:

You'll need:
Tropical Fish flakes
Tubifex Worms (any form but freeze-dried is best)
Brine Shrimp

Finely crush about 3 tablespoons of tropical flakes. The flakes shouldn't be much bigger then dust when you're finished. Layer 1/2 inch of flakes, and then put a layer of brine shrimp over that. Next, take your Tubifex worms and if they are freeze dried or cubed, chop or crumble them into a dust-like substance also. Layer that. THen add another 1/2 inch or food and keep layering until your bottle is full, or until you run out, or until you have enough. Be sure to leave a little room at the top so that it will mix. Shake well.

Directions:
Feed about 3 times daily, a tiny pinch per about 3 minnows, depending on how big they are.\\

ENJOY!

Minnows!

Isn't it fun to bring home something you caught yourself and watch it thrive? As a kid, I always enjoyed going to any body of water and looking for fish. However, from baout ages 5-8 I kept bringing more and more minnows home to keep in my fishbowl, and over and over they would die. Well I know now that it was because there was no circulation in my water. You want to know the secret of keeping minnows? CIRCULATE THE WATER! I found this out several days ago when I brought home minnow fry from my local pond. Determined to find out why they kept dying, I looked through several sites and finally found that they need a ton of oxygen in the water. I have my four little one-centimeter-each minnows in a 1.7 gal tank with a filter that I was afraid would suck them up of be too turbulent. But, it's working just fine and my little guys are doing just fine! Two of them are a centimeter, one is about a milimeter less, and one is about half a centimeter. I didn't expect the little bitty one, who I call Squidgy, to live, but he's been doing just fine as well. The two larger ones are absolutely thriving. I like my little set up- its a long, semi-bow-front aquarium and I didn't fill it up all the way, so the filter makes a regular little waterfall. I have a smaller plant and a larger plant in there, and it looks a little crowded but my minnows like to hide anyways. I have more of a white light on it then yellow, and the entire set up- with the waterfall and all- looks like a little piece of a mountain stream. But like I said, none of my four minnows are bigger then 1 cm so its not like their crowded.
   I've been feeding them crushed goldfish flakes and brine shrimp- I haven't seen them eat the brine shrimp yet, but I watched them suck up little goldfish flakes.