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By guppyfreak456 from the guppies department, Section Diaries Posted on Mon Feb 18, 2008 at 08:14:13 PM PST

My neighbor gave me a 5 gallon hexagonal tank for my babies and I can't wait to set it up.

My 1 1/2 gallon just isn't cutting it. To many fish, to little room. This 5 gallon will help me spread them out a lot more, meaning they will grow faster so they'll finally be big enough for the pet store. I'll let you guys know how it starts out. C ya!!! guppyfreak456

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New Tank | 2 comments (2 topical, 0 hidden)

Re: New Tank (none / 0) (#1)
by New Guppy Momma on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 03:29:50 AM PST

Free tanks are the best.
Good luck to your babies. How often do you feed them and do a water change? When I had my little ones in a 1 gallon back in Texas I changed 1/2 the water every day (using water from my bigger tanks every 2-3 days) and fed them about 6 times a day with powdered flakes. It seemed to me that they grew really quickly.
But I agree a bigger tank would be nice for them.
Have fun!
Before all else fails....do a 25% water change ;)

How much more surface area does the 5 - hex (none / 0) (#2)
by unclescott on Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 07:17:27 AM PST

have than the 1.5 gallon tank? A 1.5 has 72 square inches of surface area. What are the dimensions of a five-gallon hexagonal aquarium? And how does one figure the sq. inches in such a space? :)

The reason I ask, and I think you know this, is that surface area (where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place) is far more important than the total gallons or the depth of an aquarium. To figure carrying capacity of a tank, one figures surface area.

Hexes tend to be deeper than wide. Large deep hexes show off fish like angels very well, but because of the relatively modest surface area, one can't put many angelfish into a large hex.

Of course one can always do those water changes like New Guppy Mamma does. I'm not smart enough to do them. ;)

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