First Set up the tank (information on that comming later.) After you set the tank up and let it run for about 2 weeks, you are ready to get the fish. Make sure the tank in the store that you get your fish from have, no dead fish, is clean. Don't buy sick fish thinking that you can heal it back. Don't buy a healthy looking fish if all of the other fish in the tank are sick, or dead. Make sure the fish are healthy looking, good color, not shy. Once the person catches your fish ask for it to be placed in a paper bag. Once you get in the car don't, shake the bag, take the fish in and out of the bag or it could go into shock and die.
Once home float the bag with the fish for 30 minutes and then release it in to your tank. Don't feed it for a few hours. Let it take a look at its new home. It might take the fish a few day to adjust to its new home.
Also look at other sites for information on the type of fish. Find out, How big it gets, how much it eats, what fish it will be good with.
More information coming up soon.
Some Fish are Carnivores and will eat Live foods, feeder goldfish, frozen Shrimp, and even the thanksgiving day Crab meat, small bits of unseasoned and unspiced chicken or ground beef, Along with the pellet food.
Herbivores will eat Cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce, Aquarium plants, and Algae.
Then their is the Omnivorous fish will eat pellet and flake food, and almost any of the foods listed above these are the easiest fish to keep.
Just Remember that any of these fish types need the regular flake/pellet food, the others listed above should be fed as a variet. NOT to make a staple.
Feed twice a day In the moring and at night. For best color and quality try adding diffrent types of food into your fishies diet. More to come later.
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