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I recently purchased a long-tailed zebra danio to go with my 6 other zebra danios. I realize that Danios love to chase one another, but ever since his introduction the rest of the zebras have been chasing him relentlessly. I cant tell if they are fin-nipping or not, but I feel for the poor guy...

Quite possibly.

This is my tank: 55 Gal: 6 Zerba Danios 2 Cherry Barbs 3 Gold Barbs 6 Tiger Barbs 2 Pictus Cats Its cool and all, but I really want to get some personalities. You know-non shoaling loner fish. What are some good ones I could add to this tank? I was looking at ropefish, loaches, bichir, sharks...

Tiger Barbs- Adolf, Andrew Jackson, General Longstreet Cherry Bard- Alex (named after my friend who helped me set up the tank-need to get her out of their though!) Gold Barb- Heisman Pictus Cats- Scooter and Jamarcus

What about in an exreme cricumstance? For example, the ph is at 8.2? -Sorry to bring up a month old thread, but i thought it would be less intusive than creating a new one-

Pictus cats drive me insane. I have two, and I like em enough, but they can abosolutely drive non-active fish crazy when they are in one of their frenzys. I dont see how much trouble they could cause in a 100 gallon though, just keep your eye on the size of their mouths. What about a smaller...

Ive tested the water levels- interesting results, in my opinion. And thank you to all that have helped out. I tested the results three times-just to be sure. Ph-7.4 Ammonia-2 mg/l Nitrite-0 mg/l Nitrate- 7mg/l Why would I have Nitrate without nitrite? Wierd. And I was expecting the Ammonia...

Well, what I did to cycle my fish was I went to the lake and caught about 10 small brim. Put them in my tank-were there for two days. Eventually I felt sorry for them and today I put them back into the lake. My question is- can I do a partial water change, then perhaps today go get some zebra...

So your saying that I should use raw shrimp rather than ammonia, for a fishless cycle?

Well, two days ago I got my tank. It was a pretty good deal, a 55 gallon, two big ol filters, gravel, a few decorations, and a lid for 99 bucks. Heres the setup: I have gotten the filters going (Ive had two tanks before) and put in some algae eater and "tap water make safe" liquid. (Im not...