Hey, i've always been into animals and currently have quite a few of them and I've been reading about setting up an aquarium for a few years and was looking at setting up a reef tank but until im ready to finally get it going i decided to go with a freshwater and see how I do. I have a 25 gallon all in one tank that i bought off of a buddy of mine. i like the look and idea of live plants but i was a thought it would be a good idea to start with just fish for my first time. i wanted the tank to look as natural as i could so i went with a darker coloured sand and mixed in a light brown stone. I then went to the lake down the street and found a pile of rocks i thought would look good and boiled them for the better part of an hour to make sure there was nothing left alive on them. I tried my best to pile the rocks so that there were plenty of hiding places, but it still looked natural and not like they were set up. I picked up a bunch of decent looking plastic plants. After letting the tank cycle for about a week and a half i put my first additions to the tank. I've liked neon tetras since i was little so i picked up 8 of them, aswell as 4 american flagfish. unfortunately the flagfish were a bit to aggressive for my neons and kept nipping at their tails so i traded them after a week for 6 rummynose tetras. I wanted to add something a little larger to the tank that wasnt part of the school of tetras so i picked up a powder blue dwarf gourami which unfortunately died last night after 2 months of no apparent problems. I also have 4 glowlight tetras and 6 algea eating shrimp. Im happy with the tank so far aside from the ich outbreak and the death of my gourami and 1 rummynose and one glowlight. I normally do a waterchange every sunday of about 25%. I ended up missing one last sunday and with working late every day i didnt get a chance to do it until today so i beleive that may have been the issue with the loss. hopefully everything is fine since my water change today. i plan on picking up a test kit in the very near future so i can catch any problems like this before they happen again.
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