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Thank you all for the support and suggestions. Of course as much as I'm hoping this won't come to pass, if it has to at least I now have an idea of what to do for my little fish friends.

I have my 29 gallon with my goldfish, and my ten gallon with my mollies. Thank you all for the advice though. Hopefully someone at the stores can take them, else there's craigslist as a last resort. Or well hopefully my brother can take them, but I kind of don't think the goldfish will be able...

To give some context, my family is in a financial crisis right now, and if good luck doesn't come our way very soon, I fear we may end up evicted, and may have to move again, and possibly end up in a homeless shelter or motel again. The last time we ended up in motel, our lease had run out and...

I give them a teaspoon of salt after every water change. Is that enough or do they need more?

Is their breeding age their adult size? Or smaller then that? I guess I'll have to feed them more then, since I only feed them once per day. Thank you for the advice.

I've had these babies for a couple months now, and they are still in the breeder trap, and still tiny, although they did grow up a little bit. I've had them since August. How big are they supposed to be now, and have I been feeding them properly? I feed them powdered fish flakes, and on rare...

Well it unfortunately didn't make it today. Yesterday it just hid and laid there, and earlier this morning when I had got up due to the power going out (it was only out for a few minutes), I noticed it was a little active compared to yesterday, but after I went back to sleep and woke up again...

Or attempting to spawn? Two of my goldfish (that I've had for at least 4 years now), were chasing a smaller goldfish that I've only had since last year. They were doing this in the early morning and I only noticed it when I had to get up to go to the bathroom. Cue the next time I had to get up...

The last reading I was able to get of my hardness was when I was still using the jungle test strips and it was around 300 gh and kh. Not sure how off that is though. I do know that it is hard enough to leave calcium marks on my tank's hood and the filter as well as leaving a water line on the...

He's still alive and seems a little more active today, swimming around and nibbling at the tank wall and the plants, even though he's still in his awkward slanted position. I'll just keep keeping my eye on him, and the others, and testing along with doing those water changes often with the bit...

I did do a massive water change before I got the mollies. I was just doing weekly 20% water changes after I got them, and testing with the strips, but those were probably throwing me off with the results and probably led to a build up. I see now that once a week isn't enough and I'll do more...

Alright I'll see if I can get some soon then. I'll keep doing the water changes and adding in a bit of the salt in the mean time. I'm testing for ammonia and nitrates right now and will edit in the results. Would it be necessary to test nitrites as well? They were 0ppm last night. Edit: For...

I mainly went with them because I need something to survive in my hard and alkaline water. I didn't realize it wasn't too alkaline until I got the api kit last night, because the strips were always saying it was a bit over 8.0 and 300ppm hardness (if not more) . I realize now I would have been...

Yeah it doesn't say anything about ammonia, just dechlorinates and has some slime coat stuff to help the fish de-stress. I always add in at least a teaspoon like it says (one teaspoon for 5 gallons) when I add replacement water for evaporations or when I do a water change. Today was another 40%...

Should I do a gravel cleaning as well? I don't have prime but I have aqua safe dechlorinater.

I'll be doing another water change today. My test results were 7.6 for the ph, 1.0ppm for the ammonia, 0ppm for the nitrites, and 40ppm for the nitrates. The ammonia was the last thing I tested. He's still hanging on though, but I don't know for how much longer. I got some api general cure but...

It's a ten gallon tank. I used the aqadvisor calculator and it said four mollies is fine for this tank. This was a well cycled tank for years. I used to keep my goldfish in it but I moved them into a 29 gallon. I moved them several weeks before I got my mollies, and now I'm wondering if it had...

Figure I should post an update. I got some hornwort and anacharis (2 things of each, there is one clump of anacharis in each front corner and the hornwort is floating in the center). I got three more females (the day before I got the plants), and I acclimated them in to both temperature and...

I don't know if this the right forum or not for this, and if it isn't I hope someone could move it to the right one. I'm absolutely freaking out right now, and I was really hesitant to post this, because I thought I knew what I was doing with them and I guess I don't and so I'm asking for help...

Good suggestions. Thanks.

So what kind of fish can thrive in a ten gallon and be easy to maintain? It's my goldfish's old tank, and they're now in the 29 gallon. I want to get fish for the ten gallon because it has a well established colony in there and I don't want it to just go to waste and die off. Temperature...

Okay hopefully I'm not necroing my own thread, but my computer has run into a bit of trouble the last week and was just recently fixed. Unable to respond I just went ahead (on May 24), and did a 80% water change, and then added a pinch of fish flakes. Wednesday I tested it and the results were...

I hope this means my 29 gallon tank will be ready soon. I kind of posted a lot about this when I made my welcome thread if uh anyone's seen that. But basically for those that didn't, after some time my nitrites started rising, so too did my nitrates. But eventually they just hit a spot and never...

Well I guess I'll start on how about I started cycling it. After getting it set up (the heater and bubblers and filter, decorations placed) and the water dechlorinated, I placed the carbon of the goldfish tank in and let it drop to the bottom. I've been using a mix of fish flakes and my turtle's...

I found this site on google a bit back after doing some research regarding my 3 goldfish. I found that the 10 gallon is much too small for them, so my mom helped me get a 29 gallon for them since its the biggest tank we could afford. This is where I found this site. I found the "The (almost)...