My First Time Owning GloFish!!

Hello everyone!

This is my first post in Fish Lore. I’m really excited to be a part of this forum!!

Anyway, I am planning to keep GloFish Tetras. I have recently bought a 25 gallon tank that comes along with a thermometer, a filter, a fish net thing, etc. But, I have a few of questions about caring for them;

1. What water do you need?

2. Do you have to have a light for them(the one that makes them glow) for them to be healthy?

3. How much GloFish Tetras can you put in a 25 gallon tank?

4. What fish food do they need?

5. Do you clean the tank every week/month?

It’s my first time owning GloFish. Sorry if I have too much questions.


FishiCake

 

Hi. Welcome.

1 You need to add Seahcem Prime (or other water conditioner) to the water you put in your tank. It'll remove the chlorine from tap water.

You need to "cycle" your tank, or do very frequent partial water changes in the beginning.Someone can help you find the article on here that everyone reads/references. I couldn't find the article, but bascially it's this:

Fish waste & leftover food creates ammonia in your tank. Ammonia will kill fish. So, you do very frequent partial water changes. (Most people buy an API Test Kit to test their ammonia levels.) Eventually, your tank will create bacteria, which is good because it will convert the ammonia to harmless nitrate - though you still need to do weekly water changes.

2 They don't need the special light for them to be healthy, but they do need a light.

3 Five to 6 tetras.

4 Any kind of fish food for freshwater fish - good to have a variety: flakes, pellets, frozen food

5 Most people do it once a week, changing 25-50% of the water. For a new tank, you should do it more often.


P.S. Evidently, if you click on the light blue word "cycle" in my post, it will take you to the article.

 

Hi welcome to fish lore
in regards to water changes if your only going to keep 5-6 glofish as otterble suggested, you could do 25% water change each week or a 50% water change every two weeks,

I have some questions,
Will there be live plants
What will be the substrate
Will you add a heater
Do you think you will add any tank mates
When you set it up please post a photo we all love to see tank pics

 

Hi welcome to fish lore
in regards to water changes if your only going to keep 5-6 glofish as otterble suggested, you could do 25% water change each week or a 50% water change every two weeks,

I have some questions,
Will there be live plants
What will be the substrate
Will you add a heater
Do you think you will add any tank mates
When you set it up please post a photo we all love to see tank pics

There will be no live plants

Idk what a substrate is….

There’s already a heater

Tank mates? Like other types of fish? If ya mean that then Idk yet. Maybe snails

Hi. Welcome.

1 You need to add Seahcem Prime (or other water conditioner) to the water you put in your tank. It'll remove the chlorine from tap water.

You need to "cycle" your tank, or do very frequent partial water changes in the beginning.Someone can help you find the article on here that everyone reads/references. I couldn't find the article, but bascially it's this:

Fish waste & leftover food creates ammonia in your tank. Ammonia will kill fish. So, you do very frequent partial water changes. (Most people buy an API Test Kit to test their ammonia levels.) Eventually, your tank will create bacteria, which is good because it will convert the ammonia to harmless nitrate - though you still need to do weekly water changes.

2 They don't need the special light for them to be healthy, but they do need a light.

3 Five to 6 tetras.

4 Any kind of fish food for freshwater fish - good to have a variety: flakes, pellets, frozen food

5 Most people do it once a week, changing 25-50% of the water. For a new tank, you should do it more often.


P.S. Evidently, if you click on the light blue word "cycle" in my post, it will take you to the article.

Thanks!!

 

Substrate is what you will have on the bottom of the tank, will you put sand, gravel, bare bottom mean nothing just the glass

Be careful with snails, most types will breed like crazy and can be hard to remove, if you don't mind loads of snails then go ahead, I would recommend try some like plants, they can also help by acting as a natural filter

 

Oh, well I put a little bit of those crystals I had before when I had my first betta fish. I’ll post a picture of the aquarium.

 

Nice tank, has a lot of potential I would recommend trying to do a bit of aquascaping, do some rock work and driftwood and some plants if you can gain access to those, otherwise maybe add some plastic plants

 

Hey guys!!

I have recently bought 4 GloFish Tetras from Petsmart. I put them in their 25 Gallon tank and the Sunburst Orange—which I named Mango— fell to the bottom and flipped over. He/She (I can’t tell their gender) stopped moving and I thought my precious Mango was dead. So then I scooped him up with a net to remove him and bury him. Once I touched Mango with the net he jumped up and scared me.

Did he just come back to life?

THEN, my Electric Green named Lime fell to the ground and flipped and I thought HE was dead. Then my Starfire Red fell too and I thought HE WAS DEAD too.
The other two (Mango and Grape) kept hovering above the tank.

WHAT are they doing?? Why is Lime and Cherry flipped on the ground? All I really want to say is, HOW…?


FishiCake

 

Umm… help.. two of my fish are flipped on the ground. Why..?

 

2 glofish
Or do you have another fish
Did you cycle your fish tank before adding fish?

 

These are the DEAD/Sleeping fish

 

Fish can revive after jumping from their tank, which I assume is what happened. My sister had a betta that she found on her blanket which went on to live for quite a while after that.
Can fish come back to life? No, that's impossible. Can they survive a bit longer out the water than we think? Definitely
Actually I saw your other post. Whatever is going on is bad, fish usually don't survive from that kind of problem.... Is your tank cycled?

 

Get your water tested, did you cycle your fish tank? Are they always like this or was it just a one off?
Maybe start a new thread about them

 

You said you were planning on keeping glofish, but it looks like you already have them. As others have asked, did you cycle your tank before adding fish? Did you dechlorinate the water before adding fish?

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You should please answer the questions posted to you so people here can assist you.

Dead things don't come back to life.

 

Hello everyone!

This is my first post in Fish Lore. I’m really excited to be a part of this forum!!

Anyway, I am planning to keep GloFish Tetras. I have recently bought a 25 gallon tank that comes along with a thermometer, a filter, a fish net thing, etc. But, I have a few of questions about caring for them;

1. What water do you need?

2. Do you have to have a light for them(the one that makes them glow) for them to be healthy?

3. How much GloFish Tetras can you put in a 25 gallon tank?

4. What fish food do they need?

5. Do you clean the tank every week/month?

It’s my first time owning GloFish. Sorry if I have too much questions.


FishiCake

Hello! Welcome to fishlore.
1. Tap water should work, though you will need to treat it with a conditioner like Seachem Prime or Fritz complete
2. They do not need a black light at all. In fact, they may be happier just under a normal light most of the time. If you want live plants (which you totally should get), you will need a light that is white, a black light cannot grow plants.
3. You could probably put 10-15 Glofish tetras in a 25 gallon, though you should add them at like 5 at a time.
4. Any food will work, variety is key. So some days, you should feed a flake (Xtreme Krill is my favorite) or a pellet (I don't have a favorite), other days, you should feed frozen food like frozen bloodworms or if you can get it, live foods like baby brine shrimp. Don't use the food glofish sells, it's very low quality.
5. You should change no less than 50% of your water every week, and then replace it with dechlorinated, warm water. As for scrubbing algae, you can do that as much or as little as you want, it won't hurt the fish. However you should NOT get a "cleaner fish" or a "sucker fish" unless you are positive they are suitable for your tank. Many fish sold as cleaner fish are actually giant and won't eat much algae.