Hello everyone
I've had some Silver Dollar fish for quite some time now.
At first they were in a 20gl tank then I moved them to a 30gl wide and upgraded my filter from a Wisper 2 to a Eheim Professional II.
But the thing is that they always look the same.
I have 3 - 1 looks super healthy and the other two always have chopped up fins.
The behavior of these fish is something I dont like.
You do a sudden movement like 4ft away from the tank and they go crazy and you can't put a regular ligh on the tank otherwise they do the same thing.
So I attributed the bad fins to this or maybe they were sick at some point but I dont remember seeing anything strange about them.
I do a light water change usually ever 1 or 2 weeks with a python hose, add the water treatment add a bit of salt.
Water temp is 70-80deg and they are fed once a day.
Before they had some white tetras I think in the tank, these were taken out thinking they were biting the fins or something but I guess that was wrong cause I don't see any improovement since taking them out.
What should I do?
I want a more colorful tank with neon tetras and other colorful comunity fish but these silver dollar scare the other fish with their panic attacks.
Here is a link to a photogallery I put up for this post:
http://www.fusioncreativa.com/tmp/fish/
Thanks
I've had some Silver Dollar fish for quite some time now.
At first they were in a 20gl tank then I moved them to a 30gl wide and upgraded my filter from a Wisper 2 to a Eheim Professional II.
But the thing is that they always look the same.
I have 3 - 1 looks super healthy and the other two always have chopped up fins.
The behavior of these fish is something I dont like.
You do a sudden movement like 4ft away from the tank and they go crazy and you can't put a regular ligh on the tank otherwise they do the same thing.
So I attributed the bad fins to this or maybe they were sick at some point but I dont remember seeing anything strange about them.
I do a light water change usually ever 1 or 2 weeks with a python hose, add the water treatment add a bit of salt.
Water temp is 70-80deg and they are fed once a day.
Before they had some white tetras I think in the tank, these were taken out thinking they were biting the fins or something but I guess that was wrong cause I don't see any improovement since taking them out.
What should I do?
I want a more colorful tank with neon tetras and other colorful comunity fish but these silver dollar scare the other fish with their panic attacks.
Here is a link to a photogallery I put up for this post:
http://www.fusioncreativa.com/tmp/fish/
Thanks