tired tank, needs help

After 2years of being minded by someone else I have inherited my tank back.
I think it is a 90l, or there abouts. It has extra lighting and a better filter than came with the standard Rekord 90 (I think).

The fish seem to have handled the move back to Dublin well and despite a almost 90% water change the tank didn't appear to go through a mini-cycle. Happy days.

BUT we have an unhappy tank, left overs from schools that I bought originally where the mates have died and only 1 or 2 are left over. Visually it's also a bit of a mess. We have:

2 scissor tail tetras - about 6/7years old
1 glow light tetra - 5 yrs
1 black phantom tetra (who is hopelessly bullied) - 5 yrs
1 striped danio - 1 yrs
1 mystery tetra - 1yr - he is tiny, maybe half the size of the glowlight, could also be a rasbora?
5 harlequinn tetra - 6months
1 BN plec - 5 yrs
1 swordtail - 2yrs - who is a big bully
1 Galaxy rasbora (2 yrs)

So there are at least 6 single specimens that could do with some partners, but obviously the tank is far too small to add them in.

I've taken the swordtail out and put him alone in a smaller tank, and while the rest of the community tank is happier he is not happy on his own.

So what do I do with all these odds and ends? I can't really give them away cause they'll just be odds in someone else's tank (but shout if you in Dublin and want them). Can I bring some back to the store, what about their age? Which ones do you recommend keeping?

Basically any suggestions on how I can get a better tank appreciated.

That's an interesting and sad story, you could try a LFS but to be honest, you and whoever had the Tank before did something very right to get them to those great ages and handing them to someone else could kill them.... I think you just need to restart the Tank while keeping the set-up cycled, it'd be the easiest way to sort it. What to do with the Fish? I really don't know other than offering them to someone or trading them in ((Doubtful) maybe donate them to the Store.

Kev.

Kev.

Another option is to setup a retirement tank (perhaps the one the Swordtail is in might be big enough?)

I'd put the 2 scissor tail tetras, glow light tetra, black phantom tetra in a small tank of their own.

The others have plenty of life left in them and could be added to, to put them back in shoals.

There's plenty of small tanks going cheap in the for sale section if that's an option for you?

Is this how people land up with whole bedrooms taken up by tanks?

Second tank is 25l. I couldn't and wouldn't put the scissortails in there.

I think I might have a chat to my lfs about taking them on to try rehome them, cause I couldn't give them to anyone else unless they had more of the same in their own tank.

clarabel wrote:

Is this how people land up with whole bedrooms taken up by tanks?

This is exactly how - I was just leading you on!

Of course, I was also about to sell you the best bargain of a tank ever . . .