My aquarium’s first occupants
By rsa101
@rsa101 (40946)
Philippines
August 26, 2019 10:20am CST
Finally the weather was sunny this morning that’s why I decided to go and walk to a nearby pet store. The fish I had in mind was not available and saw those nice neon tetra and cardinal tetras. I bought three cardinals and 2 neon tetras plus I found this cute little shrimps. I decided to buy a couple. I let to acclimate first for about half an hour before I released it from the tank. Unfortunately, I was not able to notice that I chose one cardinal that was weak. It was the first casualty for after couple of hours I released it I noticed he was not active as the others the found it dead later on.
. So all in all tank has 4 fish and a couple of shrimps. The shrimps just not visible in the picture since it was hiding somewhere.
. So all in all tank has 4 fish and a couple of shrimps. The shrimps just not visible in the picture since it was hiding somewhere.14 people like this
13 responses
@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
27 Aug 19
I didn't know that the shrimps could be grown in an aquarium. Can they survive long?
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@rsa101 (40946)
• Philippines
27 Aug 19
@hereandthere yeah except that they are colorful! 
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
27 Aug 19
@rsa101 i didn't know there were blue shrimps. hope you can take a pic and share it. (your fish makes me think of dilis hehe!)
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@rsa101 (40946)
• Philippines
12 Sep 19
Thanks! I really love doing the maintenance may a bit time consuming, like I will have to schedule another partial water change this weekend since I find another growth of algae in the glass tank and some has established itself on the leaves of the plants so I will have to make thorough cleaning of the tank once again to make it look good.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
26 Aug 19
i hope yer able to get'cha a refund'n the one that perished. perhaps call where ya got 'em 'n ask. hopefully 'twas not ill, jest passed from age.
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@rsa101 (40946)
• Philippines
27 Aug 19
@crazyhorseladycx I doubt it. I guess I’ll just charge it to experience.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
26 Aug 19
@rsa101 perhaps'n the morn ya could call 'em? seems they sold ya either a sickly 'r ol' fish 'n ought'ta either reimburse ya 'r give ya 'nother to replace 't.
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@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
28 Aug 19
Wow, the fishes are cute, the colors are beautiful, blue and the red tail. How do you feed them? Hope they grow well.
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@rsa101 (40946)
• Philippines
29 Aug 19
@ilocosboy Hopefully, Now that is is filled with fish the environment changes pretty quickly now and I think I would have to do a partial water change this weekend to remove those debris from excess food and poops that have accumulated the past few days.
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@rsa101 (40946)
• Philippines
26 Aug 19
Thanks been waiting for two weeks because I had to cycle my new aquarium to normalize. I think two weeks is enough as I see algae growth and some other living things started crawling in my tank. That made me decide to put in my first occupants.
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@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
26 Aug 19
It is nice to hear that you got the first occupants. I have never seen neon tetra or cardinal tetra in person, but I like the way they look on photos.
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@averygirl72 (38847)
• Philippines
27 Aug 19
How nice. I want to have an aquarium too but I think it's hard to maintain and maybe expensive
@rsa101 (40946)
• Philippines
27 Aug 19
Except for the one that didn’t survive everything is doing well. The four seems to be enjoying the place. The shrimps are swimming okay and doing their things cleaning the debris in the tank. I might still try to buy some more to make the aquarium more lively. But it would be later maybe because I might be overcrowding it already.
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