Beginner.....

[Joanna]

:) I just recently got a 20 gal. long aquarium and was wondering if anyone could give me advise on how to keep my fish living longer.

[NJ Devils Fan]

Welcome to AC! :)

Check out my website (http://njdevilsfan130.tripod.com/Index.htm) for help on getting started. Go the the getting started link.

[Joanna]

Thanks, i will check out your site.

[OrionGirl]

Most likely, you followed the advice of a fish store employee. Which means you setup your tank, let it run overnight, and then added fish. So, what happened is the fish production of waste has created a toxic environment. Normally, bacteria would process those wastes. There's a sticky thread in this forum about cycling with Fish: What Now? ( http://aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3194) that you might want to check out.

And don't feel bad--fish store employees are sometimes not the best source of information.

[mt_marcy]

Hi,
Welcome to AquariaCentral! This is a great site to start off with... Another goog site that will help you with keeping fish is:

www.thekrib.com

go to the begianer's faq here. Also there are many other good information sites out there on fish keeping, just search them out. There are books out there to help as well, one good book for begianer's is: "Aquarium For Dummies". Good luck and have fun,
mt_marcy!

[EagerAqua]

Hi Joanna,

A site I like (not as much as this one though :) ) is http://www.fishprofiles.com . The information in the fish profiles is pretty thorough.

Eager

[NJ Devils Fan]

ha, Petco employees don't know their elbow from their arse.

[NJ Devils Fan]

BTW somefinfishy, welcome to AC!. :)