Recent content by Steve191

Sorry it looked orange to me. Well it defiantly seems to be a peacock cichlid. They have the same coloration and body stripes. Beautiful fish!

Looks like a red peacock cichlid to me

Looks like a red peacock cichlid

Unless you don't mind snails this isn't problem. If they eat the plants too fast just rinse them everyday for about a week

Just a pond snail. They can be invasive and eat your plants. You could get something to eat the snails.

Depends on what it's with. I used to breed them for little stores and even as fry mine would fight other larger fish. They are very intimidating to other species so they are left alone usually.

The pressure valves are cheap. Available at pet stores and look like this

5 gallons is small so you could put some plants in there. Or you can use a pressure controlling valve that goes in the air tube. The only thing that needs the air is the fry.

Oscars get a bad rep and they aren't really that aggressive. To each other they are pretty passive. I believe you would do great with 4 oscars.

Maybe 5 or 6 is pushing the bar a little but 4 is totally do able. Thank needs to be cleaned weekly and keep changing the inside and they won't try to fight to be king fish

Also an old fish keeper with tons of oscars told me her trick to having so many in one tank was to let them watch tv for awhile when they aren't getting much attention. Worked for me when my fish would get too aggressive

In a 130 you could have a bunch of oscars provided you have enough places for them to hide from bigger oscars. I would say 5 or 6 or even more based on experience would be happy if you feed them often( not a lot, just often) and twice a week change the layout inside the tank.

Most likely fin rot. Are there any snails in the tank? Some carry parasites like ich, but they leave a black spot, rather than a white spot. Also if you've had unclean hands in the tank or some sort of stress. It could get infected and then into something similar to this. But this is most likely...