I need to cycle my water to build up the good bacteria in the aquarium before I can fully stock the tank with all the fish I want in there, so for the time being I just picked up 6 fish for now.

It wasn’t easy picking which fish to get.  There are so many cool fish to get out there.

Here’s what I ended up getting.  The first two are Tiger Barbs.  Here’s a picture of them:

I’ll try to get better pictures of my fish soon.  This is the best I could do for now to keep them in proper focus.  They are super fast fish and they love to chase each other around the tank.  It wasn’t easy to get a fast enough focus on them before they zip out of camera view.

Here’s another shot of them in the corner of the tank:

The next two I picked up are Cherry Barbs.  It’s so weird because at the pet store they all looked very similar, but now that I’ve got the two of them in the tank they look totally different.  I don’t have a picture of them yet, but one of them turned completely red and the other one has horizontal stripes very similar to the vertical ones that the Tiger Barbs have.

The one Cherry Barb with the stripes follows the Tiger Barbs around almost like it wants to be accepted into their little group.  The other red one just swims around by itself like a loner.  The other thing that it does that is so funny is that when I turn on the bubble maker, it goes straight for it and swims around in all the bubbles.  It totally loves bubbles.  Reminds me of that character in Finding Nemo that loves bubbles.  It’s so funny to see the personalities these fish display.

The final two fish I got were two female Bettas (Siamese Fighting Fish).  The male ones you can only keep one in a tank because they fight, but the females are OK in the same tank together, so I got two females.  The funny thing the females do is that they chase each other around and then they eventually face each other and lock lips!  It looks like they are kissing, it’s so funny.

I really have to learn how to take better pictures of these fish.  The best one I could get of the Betta Fish was this picture here:

So that’s pretty much it for now, I just got six fish for now to get the cycle started in my tank and once everything is running smoothly I’ll start adding in a few more fish.

I took a few more pictures of my setup as it is now:

My 20 Gallow Aquarium Setup for Now.

I added in a few fake plants and a decoration so that the fish have somewhere to hide.

Another picture of my tank.

Bubbles! This is the green bubbles that the Red Rainbow Barb loves to swim through.

As you can see in that last picture, my initial temperature of the water was around 15 degrees celsius, which is way too cold so I had the heater on to bring it into the green zone.  I’ve now had the filter also cycling the water for about 15 hours.  Almost time to add in some fish!