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It happens to me all the time. And what is it with TFH? You bookmark an article, then when you try to use it it just takes you to the homepage where you can never find the article again.

A couple of weeks I’d say. That’s just a guess. But you need to take them out of that box. They stress them up and can lead to stillbirth or premature birth, or even the death of the mother. Just leave them in the tank and let them hide amongst the plants when the time comes.

No. You said 37 gallons in your first post. The orange types are quite small I think, they should be ok.

Platies would be fine in 37g. Mollies, the smaller varieties yes, the bigger ones no. Some of those Sailfin types can get too big. Is it 37 US or UK?

Probably. That’s why you’d need to add a big one. But as Gary said, fish, especially cichlids, are individuals. And one Oscar on its own in a fish tank isn’t a natural situation so you can’t really predict it’s behaviour. We’re talking about the Blue Acara, yes, and not the Electric Blue...

Small Oscars are much more aggressive than big ones. One juvenile Oscar in a tank with one other fish… I wouldn’t expect that to go at all well. I’d grow the Oscar to adult before adding the Acara. Then of course you’d need to add an adult Acara. But oscar/s with just one other fish will always...

Nothing wrong with fish and chips. :)

My first thought was a Black Piranha, or, preferably, a White Piranha, which is a Black Piranha with youth on its side. But I think they only ‘socialise’ once or twice a year, so maybe an Electric Eel. Socialise at meal times (hunt in packs) then do my own thing and nobody bothers me.

The “lead” in pencils is graphite, which is just carbon. It won’t harm anything.

Australian Angelfish?

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Pencils have never contained lead.

You’ve obviously come here wanting to hear only what you want to hear. I won’t try to help you then, since 52 years of keeping cichlids and learning about fish has just made me a “know it all”. Hopefully someone who doesn’t know much will be along to tell you what you want to hear. :) You said...

15 US gallons. If you ask the fish they’ll say they definitely do not have “room to swim”. It’s just like an Oscar in 50 gallons.

I’m very well thanks. Pineapple

They’re on the menus of quite a few of the frozen fish food producers? I usually get these…

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I start all cichlid fry on frozen lobster eggs (same size as brine shrimp eggs but even more nutritious, giving even quicker growth). Then after a week or two I add various frozen foods, grated/sliced with a small serrated knife while still frozen. And crushed flakes.

There are various types of green filamentous algae. They’re generally caused by low nutrient levels and/or low CO2. http://www.theplantedtank.co.uk/algae.htm

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You’ll need to give us water parameters (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, temperature) for us to know what’s going on. Corydoras are very social fish that live in groups, so this one on its own is stressed, which makes it prone to disease to start with. The tank is also way too small for...

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Hosest?

Your tank is big enough for small ones… I’ve just read your first post properly, and must repeat Gary’s comment about “sharks”… They are territorial, and will (want to) chase everything away from the middle of the tank, which will be its territory. They are not a community fish. Keeping more...

Minimum of 24” high, I’d say.

Discus grow MUCH bigger than Angels. You think a 48x18x18 is big enough for these…? I can promise you ten discus will not do well long term in a 48x18x18.

The tank is not big enough for discus… unless you’re happy with small, stressed discus.

Most of them aren’t working for all the fish concerned. Show me one and in 90% of them I’ll point out the fish that are stressed or inhibited and not living the life they would like to be living. Just because there’s no violence doesn’t mean they’re all “happy”. :)

They can get very round when they get the chance. As long as the belly isn’t sunken they’re fine. :)

I know you only want Wills’s opinion, but I feel the need to chip in… If you just want to keep one, just keep one and get rid of the others. Keep any of them (if you want a male), it doesn’t matter. On their own each of them will grow into a fine specimen if looked after properly. Together, the...

Just food. Try to keep its belly rounded all the time. Don’t let it get flat or concave.

Looks more like baby Anchor Worms to me, since flukes are too small to be seen with the naked eye. If so, I’d treat with Waterlife Parazin.

Of course not. Balas grow over a foot long and need to be kept in a group in a huge tank with a fast current. They’re very powerful open water swimmers. There aren’t many hobbyists’ tanks big enough for them. Rainbows are small loners that like a little territory near the ground, and would get...

Looks like physical damage to me. He’s bumped into something. The ammonia won’t be helping but with good water it should heal. I’d do another water change. Ammonia is very toxic at that pH. He sounds like he might have been stressed at not having anywhere suitable to sleep. It’s a Common Plec so...

Is it on its own? If so it will be stressed. You’ll need to get it unstressed to help with treatment and prevent further outbreaks.

Probably as many Americans eat that cr.ap as Britons. It’s hardly eaten over here at all… very very niche stuff. So true. Awful stuff. Much worse than it used to be.

Long poop strings (that aren’t white) say to me nothing’s wrong but the fish isn’t digesting the food very well, since most of it is going straight through. I’d maybe try to find a more digestible food for them? And heed what Gary has said. Sawbwa want hard water, Microdevario want soft water.

It only takes literally a minute or two for the temperatures to equalise, so don’t leave them too long. You need to test the hardness and pH of both the bag and the tank. If they’re very similar, you can chuck the fish straight in. If they’re wildly different then a gradual mix will usually...