My new setup 125g

[DallasP]

I want everyones opinion on my setup.

I have a 6 foot long 125g aquairum.
Magnum 350 pro
H.O.T. Magnum
Biowheel filter
Sand substrate
Fluval ceramic rings in the HOT mag and Biowheel

Fish:

1 Oscar
1 Texas cichlid
2 Firemouth Meekis'
1 Normal Pleco
1 Silver Dollar?

What do you guys think? if I was to pass on the silver dollar what should I get in its place?

 

[Yoemen]

hmm

you could always get a syno or 2. Should have a lot of open bottom dweller space.

 

[bigpil]

i would suggest a bottom feeder of some sort as well, if you wanna venture away from cichlids there are some very nice catfish or carp relatives...

 

[rmcder]

Fish sound ok, but is that enough filtering? I'm not prepared to say that it isn't enough, but it sounds like what I use with a 75g tank - Eheim 2217 with an AC110. What does everyone think?

As to bottom feeders, you could also think about clown loach. I love mine; more interesting than cats, imo. If you elect to drop the sd, giant danios would be the logical choice, and you don't have dithers listed, so they'd fill another niche.

 

[Rbishop]

Ditto, 2 mags on 75/90s, 3 on 125s.

 

[DallasP]

sounds great guys ill drop the SD and pick up something for the bottom of the tank, id like to get a few pretty fish thatll make the bottom a home.

today i ran into a problem. Im cycling my tank as some know and yesterday my ammonia was up and nitrites were up, this morning ammonia is still up and my nitrites were completely gone. Im assuming i had a nitrite spike. But what should i do know?

 

[Rbishop]

How many days into the cycle?

Exact ammonia, nitrites and nitrates readings?

 

[DallasP]

ammonia : 4ppm
nitrites : 0.50
nitrates : enough to hit the test charts

today:

ammonia: 3-4ppm
nitrites: 0
nitrates : stills howing up on charts

also i decided to get a pair of cuckoo synos

 

[DallasP]

week into the cycle

 

[DallasP]

any ideas what happened guys? Now my cycle is back on track it seems with the 4-5ppm ammonia and 0 nitrites and a small level of nitrates. Im clueless... :rant2: