hello im new to my fish hobbie...bout 3 weeks. i have a 60 gallon with up to 90 gallon filter a 250 watt jager heater ( tank is kept at 79), i used the biozyme to start bacteria and cycle. anyways my fish are... arowanna (4 inches), demasoni, 2 clown loaches, 2 catfish, gold face, red lafubu, black zaire, red severum, blue dolphin, tire track eel, albino casadera, 2 sailfin mollies, red tail shark, electric yellow.... quite a bit of fish for this size tank. anyways my question is.....is it ok to stir up my rocks every day to remove wastes and unused food from tank and how often should i do water changes ...all my fish are babies
is this ok?
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daryl1gtr said:
You got trouble, bud. Your first problem is that you're dangerously overstocked. Second, you've got fish that need soft acidic water with fish that need hard alkaline water. Third, you've got an arowana that has the potential to reach three feet in length (if you don't kill it, which you probably will). Let me break down for you what is very likely going to happen. Your fish are going to start to become aggressive towards each other as they grow, because they haven't got nearly enough space. Some will probably sicken and die because of immune system weakness caused by long-term exposure to water they can't adapt to. This is probably a good thing (it will weed out the less hardy fish and also leave more room for the survivors). The arowana, if fed properly, will rapidly grow to a size large enough to eat all of its surviving tankmates. Shortly after that, it will become too large for the tank and require a custom aquarium. Yes, you can stir up the gravel every day. Most people use a gravel vacuum to do that, and most people do it only once a week (but, as I said, you're dangerously overstocked). You will need to do a 25-50% water change weekly. Your African cichlids will probably die because they can't cope with the constantly changing water chemistry caused by such large water changes, but the alternative would be to kill them by nitrate poisoning. Welcome to the forum.
Please rethink your stocking. Give us an idea of your favorites and we can help you decide on which to keep. Don't let the fish suffer, find a place you can bring them back to.
Why is this in this section by the way?
Why is this in this section by the way?