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My little goldfish with racing stripes, these are the pictures of him i took at the store. I think he's an oranda? Or maybe just a fantail. It doesnt matter to me :) He's in a 50 gallon tank with a white/orange oranda and a calico fantail. They're a little bigger than him, maybe 2 inches...

Okay, so then should i go ahead and get a new hood? Since the filter is missing parts and the light probably won't be strong enough. Any suggestions?

Thank you lots for your crypt suggestions. :D I'll go look them up right after this. So there's a picture of my lighting fixure. I believe it is a T8, 18" 5500K full spectrum bulb. Could i use a T5 on a T8 fixture?

Hi! I have a 15 gallon tank (footprint of a 10 gallon with some extra height) and I want to set it up as an Asian biotope once i find a stand for it. I plan on getting red ecocomplete plant substrate. Anyway, my plant plans are as follows: Java fern on driftwood Willow hygro (hygro augustifolia)...

Personal prejudice alert: I don't like silver dollars. Although they'd definitely fit in your tank, they just aren't as attractive once they grow up. What if you say what "main" or centerpiece fish you for sure want, then we can work around that? :)

A friend recently had to get rid of hers because the fish got more aggressive with time. Not sire which she kept, but i know she kept it with angels. However, this was in a 55 gallon tank. Perhaps the larger volume of water will make cohabitation more peaceful? I believe it's always worth a...

Not just size, but also diet. Fish that eat lots of greens (plecos, mollies, goldfish, etc) aren't able to actually digest all of the plant material (cellulose, i believe?) too efficiently and because of this they poop it a lot of it out. Predators, like oscars (and on a smaller scale puffers)...

I wouldn't trust the tiger barbs with angelfish, and I'm not too sure about the two different types of "sharks" being together. Also i think kuhli loaches are over-rated. I never see mine even with just some tetras in te tank with them.

Veil tail with partially missing caudal? Hopefully after you have him for awhile in a nice warm tank it'll grow back.

Fort hood here :)

Right side of his body really swollen. He seems to be able to use his pectoral fins for locomotion, a little. The 15 gallon he's going to soon has 2 sponge filters running on air pumps so tons of aeration. His fins are so torn up...

Took a heater out of another tank put it in my 15 gallon. Gonnna be awhile until in heats up. Only 2 silver mollies and some ghost shrimp in there right now those can be moved. Should I do some hot water changes to speed up the process?

Trying to think of place to put him, but worried about stressing him like with temperature and stuff. Having my sister keep him upright right now, he's in a fairly large plastic Tupperware bowl

Only right gill cover seems to be moving. Put a live black worm in there to get him to eat no luck so far.

Bullied by tank mates do I put him so he's vertical again??

I decided I wanted to at least be able to claim experience with them, and now I've taken it down and used the uplift tubes to make a couple box/sponge filters, now what can I do with the filter plates? I'm feeling crafty haha.

I've heard about the vodka method for saltwater tanks so I've decided to try it for freshwater. I tested my nitrates just before dosing the ethanol, I'm not sure when I'll test them again. I'll add a picture of the test tube, but I can't find my little color card to find out what the reading is...

If you really want them to survive... Or you could just put plenty of java moss in there.

The green underbelly is probably just eggs. You can see them if you look a little closer

This made me smile :) does he have any tank mates in his 10 gallon?

I bought mine from petsmart for around $80... Came with bulbs, too. The ones at pet co are 100. If that's still too high for you, online. Not sure about the canopy though, sorry!

Checked in on the aquarium today. The water was really warm! Took out the shrimp, threw up a little at the stench, about 10% PWC, set up a whisper 10 internal filter, new filter cartridge on the first one I set up, added a few fake plants and an anubias on lava rock, netted out some little...

Can you post pictures please?

I bought a starter culture today from a bio-monitoring company. As they use these organisms for monitoring and not feeding finicky eaters like Dario dario they couldn't give me too many instructions on what to do. For now I have them in a 1 gallon betta cube with an air tube running just below...

If you do like them id get 4. They're schooling fish and could get stressed without a school. 3 seems too little to me, 4 would be better.