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Matt, start with frozen peas. While still frozen, tear the skin off. Just get a little rip started, and it'll peel right off. Then break them in half, cut them smaller if needed for your fish, and if they're still frozen, zap 'em for a few seconds.

Thanks so much for the link Rivercats!

Thanks for the advice!

Interesting. I'll do the math on what the current salt level roughly is, and reduce it via another water change if needed. Glad my fish don't freak out at water changes! What info do you have on Fish Protector, which claims to increase slime coat with polymer colloids...

Jlk-The amquel plus bottle says it does 2ppm, and in the past few days the dosage I had been using for the past few weeks to get it to .05ppm has been getting it below .05, up til today when I'd say it's probably about .035 (faintly greenish yellow). I've got no problem dosing it daily for a...

I don't have any ammonia test that read properly with amquel besides the card, the strips and api test kit use the wrong kind of reactant so read like the ammonia isn't detoxified. There's no lfs store near me, just chains, and from what I read on the Internet, the seachem cards are the only...

Oh, they ATTACK peas, so I don't think getting them to eat other veggies will be an issue. The only reason they don't get peas at every meal is cos individually deshelling them is such a pain! Gonna go cook&chop some broccoli for them now, thanks!

Regular "feeder" goldies grown huge, some koi. They get flakes and granules/pellets, occasionally shrimp and peas sometimes. I'd never read anything that said to give goldies veggies! You mean like the veggies squares in the tropical fish section of the pet store, or just like thawed frozen...

Chain petstores have little gel based feeders. They sell them in a pack of two, each being a 5 day feeder, or a single pack 14 day feeder, either being like $5. You could pick one of those up. They're supposedly better than the feeding blocks cos they aren't made of plaster. But if you think...

So, I can't keep any plants in my goldie tank, because they uproot or just flat out destroy anything I put in. I've read that goldies mess with plants cos they are bored. What can I do to make them NOT bored? Are there goldfish toys? goldiPads? ;) habitrails?

I've got a tank of goldies, and they destroy or uproot (depending on stalk strength) every plant I put in the tank. What plants will stand up to goldies? Is there any way I can prevent them from uprooting/destroying plants? I tried putting the frequently uprooted ones (as opposed to the ones...

Before you read my giant bunch of text below, my question is what can I do for my remaining fish after 1 of them died for no discernible reason. I have a tank with some goldfish, koi, and a shubukin. 1 of the koi I got January, who'd always seemed healthy and had grown from like 3.5 inches to 5...

My goldies&koi won't stay away from the suction tube, but as others have said, they've swum right in before and turned around and swum back out (Before they got too big to even fit in the vacuum tube), while it was going at full. Difference between products I guess, the couple foot long hand...

I'm going to move it into the shower tomorrow after my partner showers in the morning, and let it sit full all day for the full tank leak test. I'm in an apartment, so there's no garage or shed. The table the smaller tank was on was well sealed, and the water did not damage or penetrate the...

So I got a 55gal tank off CL, ended up having to reseal it cos it had a leak. Currently doing a leak test (At the couple inches of water in the bottom stage.) I was thinking, and realized that all my other tanks are on wire stands, and the one time I had a tank on a flat surface (a table) when I...

So the ammonia never did spike, happily. Guess there was enough bb in the decorations. I did stir up the gravel a bunch, every day for the first couple days after I put the new filter on.

Yeah, so far mine have repeatedly uprooted it. I think I'm gonna have to figure out some way to attach it to something.

No, I got some Mondo grass before, it's completely different.

It doesn't look very corkscrew-y. :) I'm just hoping it stands up to my goldies ok!

Yeah, looks like it might well be Vallisneria!

I got it loose at petco, and wanna make sure it's actually aquatic before I plant it, but I'm not sure what it is.

*nod* Yeah, I'm gonna test like it's a complete re- cycle, and see how the tank acts. I'll amquel at the first sign of ammonia. I'm hoping the gravel&decoration bacteria will be enough to at least make it a mini-cycle. I've got some rocks that claim to be ideal for bacteria to colonize, I'm...

Sharpchick-My existing filter got washed with Dawn dish liquid. I trashed all the media, and currently have the housing sitting in the bathtub with water running over it to be absolutely sure no chemical residue is left, at which point the old housing will become my spare. In the meantime, I...

Nope, absolutely no way to move the media. My husband somehow completely misunderstood when I asked him to clean the filter, and washed the whole thing, housing and media, with Dawn dishwashing liquid. (I have no idea how he misunderstood so badly, cos he's cleaned it before plenty of times...

If I put a brand new HOT filter on a long since cycled tank, how long til the good bacteria colonize the filter? There's a number of decorations in the tank the bacteria have presumably colonized, and it's been over a week since the gravel was vacuumed, so I'm assuming there's plenty of...