Actually, I need another tank anyway. I’ve nowhere to raise any fry right now, and it would probably be better if that was all in place before they arrive.
That makes 4 tanks… No, no, what an I thinking, I don’t have space for that many tanks. Drat.
Maybe this is the excuse I need to get another tank! After all, a 10 gallon tank is only 13 dollars or so at petsmart. Then again, a heater is bloody expensive.
Well I wouldn’t call it essential. Some of the material is useful, mainly the part on behavior, habitat and breeding. Much of the rest of it is not very useful or impossible to understand (by me, the amatuer anyway)
But if you can understand all of what they’re talking about, all the power to you.