Hello all,
i am new to the forums and relatively new with fish keeping and i am afraid i have gotten myself into a dilemma.
I recently bought a 30 gallon tank and stocked it with fish, what i believed to be a reasonable amount...
Unfortunately, the first two fish i bought were both rainbow sharks, primarily because they look great and are hardy. i bought them when they were young 2-2.5" and the girl at the store said they would get to be 3-3.5" at the absolute max and were fine with all types of fish, including each other. i learned that this is of couse not true and that they grow to be 6" relatively quickly. Well as you can guess for the first few weeks after i added all my fish things were fine. lately however, one of the sharks has become very agressive and is attacking all the other fish, especially the other shark (who isn't aggresive at all). I did some research and learned that when my sharks grow they will kill anything smaller than them and also that i should not have two in one tank. i set up my ten gallon tank and am currently waiting for it to settle and be ready to accept fish. I am planning to move the aggressive shark into this tank with hopes that the remaining one won't become aggressive if he is the only one in the tank (my buddy has one that is 5" and it is fine). I was wondering if i am pursuing the right course of action with regards to my situation and also if a ten gallon tank is large enough to hold the agressive shark when he grows to full size (the people at thestores say that the ratio is 1" of fish per US gallon, so is 6" of one fish in a ten gallon tank okay???).
At least i learned one thing from this experiance, i will never by a fish without researching it beforehand again!
Any help you guys could offer me would be most appreciated.
i am new to the forums and relatively new with fish keeping and i am afraid i have gotten myself into a dilemma.
I recently bought a 30 gallon tank and stocked it with fish, what i believed to be a reasonable amount...
Unfortunately, the first two fish i bought were both rainbow sharks, primarily because they look great and are hardy. i bought them when they were young 2-2.5" and the girl at the store said they would get to be 3-3.5" at the absolute max and were fine with all types of fish, including each other. i learned that this is of couse not true and that they grow to be 6" relatively quickly. Well as you can guess for the first few weeks after i added all my fish things were fine. lately however, one of the sharks has become very agressive and is attacking all the other fish, especially the other shark (who isn't aggresive at all). I did some research and learned that when my sharks grow they will kill anything smaller than them and also that i should not have two in one tank. i set up my ten gallon tank and am currently waiting for it to settle and be ready to accept fish. I am planning to move the aggressive shark into this tank with hopes that the remaining one won't become aggressive if he is the only one in the tank (my buddy has one that is 5" and it is fine). I was wondering if i am pursuing the right course of action with regards to my situation and also if a ten gallon tank is large enough to hold the agressive shark when he grows to full size (the people at thestores say that the ratio is 1" of fish per US gallon, so is 6" of one fish in a ten gallon tank okay???).
At least i learned one thing from this experiance, i will never by a fish without researching it beforehand again!
Any help you guys could offer me would be most appreciated.
