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I think the general recommendation is to get the biggest tank you can comfortably afford. A bigger tank can be more forgiving - that is, you could have something bad happen in a five gallon (a fish dying, overfeeding, shet like that) and have it impact the entire tank very quickly, whereas a twenty-nine gallon tank would not undergo much of a change because of the volume. Ya dig?
Beginner fish?>>246144and>>246146- platies are pretty good. What's nice about livebearers like that is you can pretty easily sex them and if you can't, the employees at the pet store should be able to. That way you can stick to pretty males and not have to worry about babies. I'd definitely recommend finding community fish like them (or as the other anons above posted, small schooling fish) for your first tank. Goldfish, I don't like - they're dirty and they get big. I know a lot of people will huff and say that a goldfish won't get two feet long in captivity unless you're overfeeding them but it's just.. you know, there are much, much better options.
>>246157 Amen to this Anon. Don't feel compelled to buy a cleaner fish. Please. I can't say this enough! There are so many types of algae and cleaner fish aren't /guaranteed/ to eat any of them. They might, but if they don't, you're still stuck with the cleaning job and now you have another mouth to feed. Not to mention your common pleco can get huge and is basically a big shit machine after they hit like five or six inches. If you're taking proper care of your tank and correctly regulating the light it's getting (along with not setting it up in the sun, which you shouldn't do anyway) you shouldn't be seeing much algae at all. And even if you do, it's not really a bad thing. A little can be good for your fish.
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