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Bought a second one. They are aggressive towards each other. The old hidey one floated up yesterday. Looks like the new one battled him for food. New one stays out though so good news and bad news. I can handle the death. At least I'm not paying for a fish I can't see even though I hate killing...

I love my discus. They are funny and personable fish. I have two. This is them together

Buy a plant from the LFS. Snails usually come with them for free :-). I have 12 assasin snails in my tank and the pond snails out reproduce their appetite still

These are my favs in my fresh tank

I've had a few they have all sucked. There's no real way to portion out the feeding. At best you can feed twice, once before work and once after work, and set the auto feeder to feed once while your gone and only put 1 feedings worth in there. My experience is one day it will dump a crap ton of...

That's perfect. Ty. Haven't seen ours in 2 months but I figure something's wrong or he's dead when I finally do see him. Lol. Good stuff on the many moons ago.

Thank you by the way in advance for your insight. It is greatly appreciated

I've read a lot on them and the common thing is that they are peaceful fish except to those of its own species. Says they are best kept individual in community tanks unlike other loaches. I've thought of getting more but it says they are unlike other loaches with schooling habits. Do you guys...

Just unburying it hoping for a response this time

Thanks man. I appreciate your insight. Excited to give this a shot and have spent countless hours on Internet and just chatting with my LfS owner covered it will be. Had a pleco jump out years ago and your right, it did suck :-). Got my breeder tank in my spare bedroom with no traffic...

Been tank in' 16 years. About to do my first discus breed. Posted this in breeding forum with no response. Hoping to get some first hand discus experience on this. Read up a ton on it, just looking for some pointers from someone who has gone through it. What's the breeding age of discus? Got a...

Feed them what they are eating. Once they are eating that consistently don't feed them for a day or 2 then will probably devour whatever touched the tank next. They are new so make sure they are good sand healthy before starving for a couple days

I have had a horseface loach for about a year. Not that anyone would have known it. I spend at least an hour a day in front of my tank just watching what I have created functioning. I am lucky if I see this guy once a month and usually it a fleeting look before he buries himself into the sand...

Missed the whole thread but kudos to you. Fish have been my life for a long time and love hearing people saving them. Glad to hear there are people like you out there

Hard to tell from pics on my crappy iPhone. Qt til fish is better. My discus spent a full month in qt til she was better Not sure if its parasitic or not but with the eye cloud, eye bulge and white slime coat a dose of tetracycline might be the ticket. 1/4 recommended and 50% water change...

I've seen mini siphon tubes for 1-5 gallon aquariums. I use it on my 2.5 gallon beta tank.

I've had luck with boiling for 15-20 min, changing water and boiling again. The water will get less and less yellow. After it was fairly clear I soaked in a bucket for a few day. Also changing water every 12hrs ish (not an exact science) until the water in the bucket stayed clear. Then into the...

Tank looks good and not too overly crowded. Just keep an eye on the shark and if he starts zipping around and herding your fish into corners then it might be time to consider moving or losing him. From what your saying, he seems like he is fine. Not sure which marine land filter that is bit it...

When feeding, maybe even try to throw a frozen bllodworm brick in and wait til it sinks to the bottom. Then throw your flakes in for the mollie, then drop algae pellets in for the plecos at night. That will separate the frogs feeding while the mollie eats up top and the plecos and frogs won't...

You have a heavy bottom level load in your tank for its size. This could be a result of competition in your tank for food. 2 things to try. First if your feeding 1 time a day break it up into 2-3 smaller feedings and its possible they can set up a feeding schedule per fish that some will feed...

Ashley, Take these pointers as suggestions and come to your own conclusion with your specific tank with other people's experiences in mind. If you are having no issues with your shark and your other fish yet, wait it out. My brother rainbow shark in his 36g tank is 2 years old and barely 4 in...

That was straight tannis from driftwood. That was a long time ago. All pretty now and my fish are huge. I'm ready to start from scratch again :-).

This is my tank after adding driftwood. The reddish is probably from the lava rocks

Yes assassin snails work. They do work on your tank