Im having some hesitation on pulling the trigger on adding fish to my new 50g tank.
Since its empty I wanted to get fish wave of fish from petco/petsmart. My plan is to add them like:
Week 1: 4 tetras
Week 2: 2 tetras
Week 3: 4 loaches
Week 4: 2 loaches
etc
Question 1: Is this a sound plan, is the bacteria going to be able to keep up with the bioload increase rate... these are schooling fish, I dont like the idea of keeping them in sub optimal numbers.
Question 2: Since these are chain store fish Should I medicate the tank each week? Maybe do it at week 2 and again at week 6? Not medicate at all?
Question 3: If I do medicate, what should I use? Ive seen posts and videos on the common 3 med combo (Ich X, API General Cure, API Erythromycin). I much rather use a single broad spectrum treatment that treats just the most common things and not everything.
Since its empty I wanted to get fish wave of fish from petco/petsmart. My plan is to add them like:
Week 1: 4 tetras
Week 2: 2 tetras
Week 3: 4 loaches
Week 4: 2 loaches
etc
Question 1: Is this a sound plan, is the bacteria going to be able to keep up with the bioload increase rate... these are schooling fish, I dont like the idea of keeping them in sub optimal numbers.
Question 2: Since these are chain store fish Should I medicate the tank each week? Maybe do it at week 2 and again at week 6? Not medicate at all?
Question 3: If I do medicate, what should I use? Ive seen posts and videos on the common 3 med combo (Ich X, API General Cure, API Erythromycin). I much rather use a single broad spectrum treatment that treats just the most common things and not everything.