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Males have long pointed extensions on the dorsal and anal fins, my male's extends farther than his tail fin. My female has pointed fins as well, but nowhere near as long as the male's.

Goldfish aren't terribly bothered by temperature shifts. It shouldn't be a problem at all to lower the temperature for them. An indoor tank with the heater removed generally won't change temperature as quickly as an outdoor pond can at certain times of day.

You'll need at least a 4 footer for common plecs anyway - even a 55 really isn't enough, especially for two.

Moving stuff and reintroducing the ram will probably calm him. Right now, he's claimed the whole tank because nobody's challenged him before, and now the new fish are invaders in his turf. Breaking up his territory markers will put him on an even field with the keyholes, since none of them will...

Was just looking in my tank and I noticed my favorite peppered cory (long finned) was dead. No obvious sign of illness, but he's never been entirely himself since I got him six months ago. He's had a bit of a "hump" on his back for a long time, which I've read is a sign of old age, and he...

This is usually a sign of suffocation. Sometimes from low oxygen levels, but it can also be caused by poor water quality or illness - nitrite prevents the blood from taking up oxygen, and any disease effecting the gills will reduce oxygen intake. How are your water stats? What's your tank size...

60 is a bit high, but not terrible, and probably not even harmful by itself - what's your water change routine, though? Nitrate is a minor issue in most cases - ammonia and nitrite are the ones to worry about. Weekly maintenance generally keeps nitrate well in check.

Big water changes now, try to get the immediate levels under control. Did you have fish aside from the tetras? If not, two neon/cardinal tetras won't be major ammonia producers unless the tank is quite small and it should be easy to keep levels in check from there, daily water changes are the...

Excessive ammonia levels can stall a cycle - 8 ppm is more than enough to do this, with or without fish. Believe me or not, but your water stats don't lie - the tank isn't cycled, and that's what killed your fish.

Most bottled bacteria products are junk, and leaving it sit for two weeks without performing a fishless cycle involving an ammonia source doesn't do anything. If you added the bacteria and then left it sit, any living bacteria would have died off. The situation can still probably be salvaged...

Your tank isn't cycled, and ammonia and nitrite poisoning is the cause - neither should be allowed to linger higher than 0.25 ppm for any period of time. All the fish in the tank are at risk from these levels. Review this thread on how to protect your remaining fish during the cycle...

It does mean a second filter and heater. A cheap hanging filter is enough, as the quarantine tank usually won't be very heavily stocked. I set my quarantine tank up on the shelf below my main tank, and run the filter for it on my main tank when the quarantine tank isn't in use (this will keep...

Pictures have been posted to account for the current stock, so doesn't look like it to me.

Don't bother with the salt. You didn't add much, but don't add more. It actually adds stress to freswater fish, and keyholes prefer soft water (I have mine in a pH of 7.8 or so, and they're fine). It reduces nitrite and nitrate toxicity, and in the past was used to reduce that stress brought by...

Excellent :good: Then we'll get started proper, eh?

It might not be 100% necessary depending on water stats, but it won't hurt. As long as the filter media stays wet and the fish aren't flopping around on the gravel at some point, you generally can't change too much water.

For a good lesson on what happens when a fish "stops growing" look up a practice called foot binding, which applies the same principle to human feet, with painful, crippling, and often fatal results.

This is understandable. However, what about the twelve days since you started this thread? You've had time to do a great deal that was advised against.

This. All of this right here. Your LFS has stung you more than once already, and yet you're still going there and taking impulse buys because they "said it'll be alright"? You're adding fish to a suspect tank, as you have at least one unaddressed problem and are adding potential new problems...

This is always one of the harder lessons to learn with fish - took me a few mistakes to learn it, and some people are delivered right into disaster at their hands. It obviously seems logical to ask the pet store about pets, but consider what a car salesman tells you when you ask about cars. The...

Water changes - 50% now, and another 50% after a couple hours if levels are still above .25 for ammonia or nitrite. After that, test daily and do water changes as necessary to keep both under that level. Sounds like you're at the tail end of a fish-in cycle (leaving the tank for a week doesn't...

Most of my fish will eat poo occasionally. Fish will try anything small enough to go in their mouth, but they either spit it out or if they do eat it, poo it back out later on, so in the end, it ends up in the gravel either way.

I wouldn't put the shark with discus or angelfish. They're quite peaceable as juveniles, but it isn't long before they reach maturity, and they've been known to become very mean very quickly at that point. At that point they become particularly intolerant of fish too similar to them. Not sure...

Excellent news! Hadn't seen an update from you in quite a while, was worried you'd given up after all that mess you went through.

What size tank? Giant danios, silver dollars, raphael catfish, pictus or bigger synodontis species should all be robust enough to stand up to a parrot. Other big New World cichlids with care and lots of space. Keep in mind the parrot itself is going to require a good bit of space, added fish...

Very nice. How's your experience been with the shark's behavior? Looks like he's a pretty big one.

Stunning. What's the plant with the broad triangular leaves? I've got an empty spot in my tank I'd love something like that for.

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Depending on what the sucker fish is, it'll likely have to go. There's hundreds of things it could be. Since you describe it as large, I'm going to guess it's a big plec, which has to go. I'm not up to snuff on loach species, but the Pakistani loach bears inspection, too. The swordtail's...

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Reposting a couple of my reviews, since these two stores have changed considerably in the last couple months: State: Michigan City: Saginaw Store: Animal Kingdom Variety/ Selection: 6 Cleanliness and Quality: 6 Staff Friendlyness and Knowledge: 6 Similey rating: :huh: Pet Paradise's...

Doesn't surprise me either :blink:

Proceed with a fishless cycle - adding flake food works, but it's imprecise and hard to gauge how much food to add. It still takes about a month or so. Nutrafin cycle is junk, and even so, without an ammonia source, any remaining live bacteria wouldn't have grown.

Don't count on that - hers would start showing trace levels of ammonia after about 2 months at best, even in good water. They also don't adjust quickly, they'll miss temporary ammonia spikes (though unless you test at the right time, so will any other kit). If they ever did give a reading, it...

It should be fine either way - the only thing to watch is that he'll likely have some ammonia already in the water, so he'll have to account for that when he adds the first dose of ammonia. Alternately, he can let the bacteria he's already built up handle that. Once it's down to 0, it'll be like...

How are your water stats and maintenance routine? Unless it was a very big water change, or very cold water, temperature changes in a water change won't usually kill healthy fish. There's some concern with certain types of hot water heaters that water that's been sitting in them can have higher...

Don't trust somebody else to test your water. Some of them are just fine about it, but many stores will tell you good water is bad and you need to buy stuff to put in it (most of which you wouldn't need even if it was bad), or that bad water is good and sell you fish to put in it. I've even seen...

Most likely not the cause of deaths. What is your water change regimen? You definitely need a test kit - liquid based, covering ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate. Most also cover pH, but other stats like hardness are nice to know but not critical. Gasping could be a lot of things, my first guess is...

Perhaps a dwarf gourami or dwarf cichlid? Best left until the tank is more mature, but it is something to consider for the final stocking.

I'm 25, but yeah, this has nothing to do with being a teenager. Teenagers can learn faster than almost any other age group, as evidenced by the popularity of video games, anime series, books, and TV shows that call for an encyclopedic knowledge to understand. I think I still remember more about...