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After a few months (about 9) of using a few of these stuck on the glass under the overflow of a standard HOB filter in my Goldfish holding tank (they winter over indoors) I find they serve very well as bio filters. The water in the 30 gal tank that my 3 big fantails spend the winter in has...

How does a 12 inch goldie even turn around in a 55?

if you have a pair, separate them or you will be ankle deep in the little buggers

where is your thermometer? High in the tank you get a false reading. the warm water floats. the gravel and low water MAY not be warm enough. and the parasite lives in the gravel too. cure this with a powerhead and make some strong steady current in the tank to mix the water and prevent the...

Well when you have 50 half grown ones, and a few big fantail goldfish, you might find as I did, they will attack in mass and chew their fins to rags pretty quick. Ok they are just picking for food but they will wreck a fancy GF's fins.

I found that for black mollies at least, if you sex them early and put all the males in a separate tank, they don't chase each other. They are actually pretty peaceful. In the main tank, I left all the females since they get bigger than the males and if there is no men around are also peaceful...

I used to have a tank with one of those. they do work pretty well. I used the type where the whole end of the tank has the pad, not the corner. What will happen in time, is the foam gets clogged, and the mat will be drawn to the end of the tank and after a while sucked tight up against it as...

why are plants hard? you just need the right plants. mine grow fine, I just plant em and ignore them. some of em need pruned back but hey those are cuttings! more plants for free!

I put 2 little otos in a tank whos glass was plastered wwith algae on 2 sides, I was stunned that these little guys after a week have the tank glass nearly licked clean.

The ammonia will burn his gills, and he might seem fine for a while then just croak on ya.

oh good idea... a stock tank. much more pond like than a water barrel! I might have to put one in and toss the water drums. lol

true, to me once I got the tank looking nice and the fish happy, I leave it as it is and just watch the fish live and interact. If you breed or have a large school or are adding/removing fish all the time, I can see where water changes would be needed. I'd plumb the tank with a drain and an...

if you put the last fish you have in a bowl, you can turn the heat up in the tank, and put a powerhead in there to get the water currents going strong, both of which will promote the bacteria growth quite a lot.

Buy a UV sterilizer

I have like, 50 baby mollies in my tank and I admit, I'm looking for a fish to put in another tank that likes the taste of black molly. I like the 2 I originally bought, they have personality. but the 100's they produce, I'm not real fond of. I cant give them away, fish shops don't want them. I...

if it were my tank, I'd put the molly in a gallon glass jug or a nice fishbowl, and change HIS water about 50% every other day or 3. Thats only a 1/2 gal change! (give him an little airstone and plant). Then leave the main tank age properly. The molly will be happy, you'll have no stress, and...

ya know what makes a good tank for newly adopted goldfish? A 55 gal rain barrel. set it where the rain will wash into it and overflow it when it rains. it's like goldfish heaven. Space, cool water, bugs to eat. You don"t even have to test the water. If you live in a warm climate, they can...

It's a good idea when you want an aquarium, to set it up with a few plants, gravel, filter running and no fish. add a few drops of ammonia as was said, as needed and admire the tank as is for about 2 months. Practice testing your water.... feed and raise the bacteria. You cant really hurt the...

I dont do water changes either, I have an oversized bio filiter and plants in the tank. My readings are always fine. the only time I chage the water is once a year, to dilute the hard water build up from topping off. Toxins... I'm not sure what toxins build up in a fishtank but I run a charcoal...

Agreed, Koi and "standard" goldfish do stay active in colder water than fancy / fat fantails. I'm of the opinion that fancy chubby ones have spent a great majority of their lives in water warmer than 60F, so what is warm to a pond Koi/comet will send a fat fancy to sleep. or maybe its just...

I'd probably get flamed.... lol I keep several tanks going, some with goldfish, I use large bio-filters and cheapo HOB filters modified with nylon pantyhose filters to serve only as super fine particle filters. I rarely change my water at all. The only reason I do is if 1. a problem pops up...

Goldfish tend to have different personalities. I have one who does that sometimes. I know she isnt sick since when she gets hungry she comes out and is very active. The bigger they get I think the more time they spend "meditating in the weeds". LOL I have one tank by my window with 2 huge ones...

I've had fancy goldfish for many yrs, in the house in tanks and outside in various sized ponds. If you've had a goldfish that has been 1" long for years, I can believe that as I have had several "runts" who never grew as big as fast as the others. In general those runt fish always had some...

one inch for a goldfish is a fry. :p Those pigs will get huge. I have 2 fantails i 'thought' would stay small... hahaha... they are about 8" long now, and still growing. You need a large bio filter to handle the goldpigs poop load, that will, in time, fix your problem.

I have a large (@ 11") pleco. He mostly sleeps all day BUT.... They get hungry. when he gets hungry he will make it his mission for the night to trash the tank, rooting in the sand, tearing out plants he doesnt like. if that doesnt get him some algae wafers on demand, he will start to take...