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I won’t argue that 🙂 Preemptive attacking is something many humans engage in.

I’m not British but that is one cracking fish - congrats!

Fuel prices are up 40% here in the last quarter alone. Six bucks a gallon in Seattle.

Replacing the koi is a juvenile black angel who is nipping away at the plants 🙂

I re-homed the koi angel in question to my LFS. It wasn’t just the plant eating, that didn't bother me, in fact it was rather interesting to watch. It was more about its behavior with regard to the other fish, the angels and a Bolivian ram in particular. This koi was a Jeckyll and Hyde sort...

Also, and maybe I missed it, you said your tank has been cycling for two weeks and is reading 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, 0 nitrates and that you’ve added some fish food. I’d add ammonia and make sure the tank is fully cycled before adding fish. It usually takes several weeks to complete this...

Post it, anyone can post what they choose in the realm of fish keeping. It’ll be handled by mods if it is inappropriate or gets out of hand.

Just punch some holes in the lid

I promise nothing. :)

I don't mind them (really just the one angelfish) tugging at the plants. Just want this one to get a well-rounded diet and not rely on the foliage. I'll feed a bit more and focus on the this little koi angel getting its fair share.

I don't know Colin, the other angelfish will eat until their stomachs burst, even the bottom feeders figure out how to scavenge for what they want. Feeding them all more food to get this one to eat... I think I'll have some sort of tropical obesity syndrome before this fish figures it out. I...

No worries it’s definitely funny. It now seems to be just this one koi angel in particular, and it could simply be that he’s a horrible eater, all the others gobble up everything and this one just kinda looks lost and pathetic during feeding. Maybe he’s simply resorted to the plants. I’ll post...

I only know secondhand the toll terminal cancer and its treatment take. Wishing you strength Byron.

Apparently it's not just the broad leaf plants

I lack experience with angel pairing. It’s possible the koi have paired, they do typically stay together and are around 6-7 months old, yet they don’t display much if any aggression toward the others, nor do they defend any particular territory of the tank. Another angel if swimming directly in...

I’ve been watching them fairly closely and the plants with broad leaves are getting hit the hardest and it’s seemingly from two koi angels. I’ve seen them nip at plants, perhaps looking for pellets, food etc. but maybe I have some tiny snails I don’t see. All the other fish are bottom feeders.

I have five juvenile angelfish in a planted 75 gallon tank. As per usual they are the most voracious eaters of all the fish in the tank and are taking to the plants as well. They aren’t hurting for food, believe me and I’ve read they’ll just eat out of boredom, and maybe that’s part of what’s...

I wouldn’t be surprised if he needs a break from this place.

I've never kept bettas, but hard water is less than ideal. It would be helpful to know the hardness (GH reading) from your water authority.

Or some bacterial infection, but @Naughts gives good advice above.

I'm no expert and I don't want to freak you out, but yeah other issues could cause gasping, including not getting enough oxygen. Did the gasping stop after adding the air stone?

Great fish escapes could be its own thread. I had 3 small loaches jump out and hit my hardwood floor, similarly a 4-5 foot fall. It'd be like me jumping out of a 10 story building. Fish are pretty tough.

24c (74° to me) is also well within normal temp range for bettas FWIW.

They can tolerate salt but it can take its toll on their kidneys/internal organs. Maybe they came with free fungus from the fish store and it's become more noticeable now.

They are scaleless and they are sensitive to salt. But, I have treated my tank with salt (which included several corys) before learning that. I will say they were fine, it all depends on amount and duration. Were your fish recently added?

I don't know anything about Dennerle thermometers, but I would always trust a thermometer's reading over the indicated setting of a heater. Personally I've never encountered a heater that accurately attains what its temp indicator reads.

Mine were seemingly fine with Seachem Flourite as a substrate. It's clay-based and possibly softer than traditional gravel but still "appears" a bit sharp-edged. I removed sections and added the Flourite sand version. The cories hang out in that sand area now.

Assuming you haven’t purchased the tank yet, (and have the space) why not go a bit larger? Just to allow yourself more options. I don’t think I’ve ever regretted going bigger on buying a tank. But anyway; various tetras, some barbs, dwarf gourami, cories, etc. could all work. My kids are...

If we’re talking about “thriving”, I think that may extend beyond properly-suited water parameters, but also to having the right substrate, plants, hardscape etc. I have yoyo loaches and bronze cories, yet I started off with gravel as my substrate because I didn’t know any better. I don’t know...

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They are largely nocturnal fish. You mentioned other catfish but is this one the only one of its kind?

Never heard that one either. Seems to be an old term used in southern US states, meaning ghost or spirit.

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They likely meant don’t clean the filter media as you want bacteria to build up in there but by all means that filter can be turned off/unplugged for the time it takes to do large water changes, which are crucial for your tank at this stage. Edit: oops - looks like I missed several responses...

It does not look like mold to me, more like burnt, but you remember what it looked like before you stashed it. I'd take a stiff brush to it then rinse it off and boil again.

It's never helpful to be defensive in the face of problem solving. We're all making a relatively "blind guess" - including you. You came here to ask what is happening and posted pics of chunks of scales removed on your fishes, (in a species that is commonly kept), yet no one has seen this...

What a silly thread. Nevertheless:

I forgot to update this, but I did buy four angelfish from The Wet Spot a couple of weeks ago. They arrived in a styrofoam lined box with heat packs and each fish was double-bagged with an oxygen tab inside. One is a timid runt of the litter sort but they're all in very good health.

Thanks - see above