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Thanks! I thought it sounded strange lol I tried looking it up online a couldn’t find anything about them acting weird like that or the medication stuff. I’ve always thought those fish looked cool maybe I’ll start researching on how to keep them

So our tank recently got Ich and all our fishes died so we’re looking into branching out from gold fish and trying a cichlid. Our friend has a tank with 3 parrot cichlids and they always look like they’re dead like They rest on plants and don’t move. The people who got the fish said they were...

I believe our heater goes to 88. I think we will get the ick meds and treat the empty tank that way if we ever get it again we can start treatment immediately. What about out filter? If we use the medication will that clear it out of the filter or do we need to replace the filter. My only...

Luckily we were able to keep the tank and 72 and they all seemed okay at that temperature. Yeah I think we’re gonna get the meds treat the tank and put the water temp high now that there’s no fish and have the medication on hand if we get it again. It was our first time dealing with Ich and...

I have a 50 gal tank that had a couple goldfish, a pleco, and catfish. The gold fish and pleco brought Ich into the tank we did water changes, salt dips, and increased the water temp but they all ended up passing away.): We’ve mostly stuck to goldfish and pleco but now that we have a fresh...

Well after the salt dip they looked and acted much better the next day (yesterday) they didn’t have as many white spots. We did a 50% water change yesterday and we got the water up to 78 and they were swimming and seemed ok so we didn’t go any higher then that and we did that temp change over a...

Well we were hoping just the water changes would be enough for the cat fish but now one of them died so now I’m thinking we might need to get the medicine so none of the rest of our fish die):

We also removed some of the substrate. We had a really really thick layer of rocks we had some plants but the fish would eat it and pull the plants up and the plants would die so we removed the plants a couple months ago so we removed probably half the substrate. I know there’s a lot of good...

The one goldfish is pretty big the other two are smaller. This is the first time we’ve had ammonia in our reading. We don’t do readings every time we change the tank but so far we hadn’t seen any. We do a partial water change every week and today was the day before we normally do it. We also had...

I tested the water Ph:7 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate:20 Ammonia: .5 Temp: 72.1 (and about to start increasing the temp) We’re doing a water change now so ammonia should go down and will do another partial water change tomorrow too.

Ohhh okay we definitely won’t do that then. We used to keep a small filter in with the big one in case anything happened we could cycle it quick but our tank had been doing so good for months when we changed the big filter last we took it out. Oh well. Raising the tank to 85 is about a 13...

Well I was thinking we have to do a water change on the big tank so we could use some of that water in the smaller tank to cycle it and then just do a slight water change on it before adding the catfish. But for now I’ll do like you said and we’ll keep everyone in the same tank and get the...

Thank you! Due to having the two different types of fish we were wondering if we should separate them and put them in a smaller tank and treat them separately so we don’t put either the catfish or goldfish in more harm. But I see others don’t recommend that. I do think I could leave the...

I’ve also read about removing a fish from the tank into a smaller bucket and soaking them in salt for a few minutes. Is that safe or okay to do?

Unfortunately the tank is at my boyfriends house so I can’t get exact water measurements now. The tank is 50 gal and the water stays around 72. I can get the other measurements when I go over tonight. Is there anything I can pick up at the petstore before going over. How warm should we make the...