Hi all...well my partner has decided to spoil me and allow me to get a small tropical fish tank. I hav found a full set-up and stand in pets @ home that is lovely, but I was wondering if anyone can give me any additional info....I mean do tropical fish need a heater etc???
I dont recall seeing this tank came with one, only a filter etc....

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yes they need a heater and before you put any fish in the tank set it all up get the filter and heater working properly and put some treatment in the water to make it safe I would personly leave it standing for a week before putting any fish into it.

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yes on the box it says about leaving it to stand for a week, and also comes with the water treatments. So the heater will have to be bought seperately...how do u control temp on them? Are they ran via a stat or wat?
Nat xx

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heaters are all built with an intergrated thermostat (except for the real fancy ones, which are for big tanks)

DO NOT take all the advice you get in pets@home, nothing wrong with them, but they have too many different animals in the same shop for them to know enough accurate info about the fish as well. Try and find a specialised shop nearby, the choice will be better, the quality of fish will be better (usually) and the staff are mostly more knowledgeable.

what size tank is it and what are you planning to keep in it?

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we are only buying the tropical tank from them, not the fish, I wouldnt do it, Once the tank is ready to go and settled we are going to go to a garden and fish centre in dursley.

The tank is about 2ft wide and we are not 100% sure on wat we want to fill it with yet.

Nat xx

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you're best off with small tetra, corydora catfish, things like guppies, platies would also be ok, but its a small tank, so keep the fish small, and don't have too many

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Awww i wish i still had my tanks... just a word of friendly advise, i found that if you try to go for the largest tank you can (in gallonage not length, you can get some that are taller which is nice!) its overall easier to keep. I found that in my small tank, that i had far more problems, even though i didnt over stock it, and i think it was just that the tank couldnt handle it. No real scientific fact but out of all my tanks, the bigger = easier to keep and more success. I got my mum a 4ft long on for her 50th and shes had NO probs what soever.

I just mention it because i wish i;d never bought my little one and gone straight for my Jewel.

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yeah good point, obviously with a larger amount of water, if something goes wrong then you have more time to fix it, in a small tank it goes wrong quickly. big tank means problem takes longer to get serious.

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lol as much as we would love a larger tank, sadly a small living room leaves limited size, unless I suddenly had a nice cash fall and could get one of those TV's u hang on the wall so would have where my tv is now to fill with large tank lol....

and yea we were thinkin along the lines of guppies, tetras etc and of course a placostomus (sp)

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