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ah...hearing that adding the plants actually helped is good can you see the bulge....this danio looks like a guppy....i am not sure whether is this an overfeeding issue...coz the other danio and the shubunkins are just fine having prober body shapes also if these guys are overfed there would...

Hi there is me again...the dude with an overstocked tank :(....my 16g tank has 2 shubunkin gold fish and 2 giant danios (last time i told they were rainbow fish....m rly sorry about that....only now got a phone which was compatible with google lens...the lfs where i bought the fish from was no...

i basically have 2 filters in my tank....a power filter and a overhead filter.....during the day time i only run the overhead filter (also has a air pump) while at nights both the power filter and the overhead filter runs at the same time....these is plenty of aeration...(i assume that a lot of...

maybe i was a bit too harsh....sorry about that...i understand that you guys are talking for the well being...

thats a tank from india....as i told before.... i just cannot give the best for them to thrive...but i gave give them more than enough to live happily...here thrive in sense..you having a billion dollar lifestyle...and live happily in sense...having good enough to run a daily life i think...

SO WHAT IS THE ISSUE HERE? 1.MY TANK IS SMALL problems caused by small tanks 1.bad water quality---check...my water is good enough 2.no space for them to swim----currently there is a lot of space for them to swim (atleast better than the tank with the sharks)...

here is my question i live in a country where people want to have fish...but dont give a crap about caring them...alll they know is...get a random tank...pour some tap water...and put random fish in there so there is this apartment next to my house...they have a fish tank outside the security...

yes i understand your anger....i saw your comment in youtube...i am not buying any more fish....this will be the last set i will be having.... let me restart this again when i can have all the equipment... i gave away the mollies to the shopkeeper....now my tank only has the koi and...

okay...then i am not getting new fish

ok...thanks!

Also as i have limited resources with the test kit can somebody tell me the "best readings and results with the least usage" duration like a reading taken 2 days once would be fine....or a reading taken once a week is fine....like the max duration between readings like you know there is a...

i stilll have my 4 mollies 2 shubunkins and 2 rainbows and this is the reading taken this morning.....is my water still good? or should i give away my mollies...like i dont have the heart to give them away...but if the water is actually bad and the fish should be rehomed to make them happy....i...

so how is my water right now?? Is it bad ?? i did a water change on 10th sep and these are the results after 5 days of the water change if this is good....and if i can maintain the same readings...will be fish be happy? p.s I added tap water yesterday and the TDS right now is 350 with a pH of...

he did not tell the fish grow to the size of their tank...he told that most fishes reach their max physical growth before they reach the shops( i have bought fish from many shops and only the first shubunkin i got has grown in size...while the others never grew in size)....like the mollies i get...

the new ones only wiggle before i feed them...they stop wiggling after that and stay normal..... i dont get it....like what are the fish which are sick...the first "MY CARP IS INACTIVE" is because of compatibility issue with danios...like i used to get fish from another shop(when i had no...

okay...imma stop this hobby right now.....noone wants to take these fishes...that guy offered to take the mollies alone...he told he had stopped getting rainbows and already has a lot of the shubunkins already...so i have to have them till they die....will try my best to keep them happy

yes i use water conditioner while cleaning the gravel i do it with the aquarium water....i remove some amount of water into a bucket...move all me decors there...then would gently started vaccuming the gravel by disturbing it slowly....i remove the fish if i had to do a complete gravel...

yea...that vet told that the mollies would have wiggled coz they were bored... he tells that the death is caused by the age....and ngl...with all the mollies i had....none of them grew more than 1.5 inches (i had balloon mollies)

wait what...that guy calls that koi or SK gold...and when i searched up SK gold...shubunkin is the one which i found and looks almost close to this one (actually i remember seeing black and white coloured fish of the same kind...but i went for the yellow) idk why the pic is not clear...

so i gave my water for testing this morning and here are the results AMMONIA : 0 ppm NITRITE : 0ppm NITRATE : 10 ppm pH : 7.2 TDS : 265 ppm GH : 14 TEMP : 24c (taken with the thermostat I have) and little did I know that the fish keeper at the LPS was a retired vet (never thought of this...

i did a heavy gravel clean this time....so i just want those destroyed bacteria (if any ) to get replenished i will update my values tomorrow...so that you guys can tell whether is it normal or not...

i recently started giving my water for testing every once in every 2 weeks to my local fishstore...they do a free checkup.....and for the both times i checked...i never had ammonia more than 0ppm....also none of my fish gasp at the surface....other than while feeding...they try jumping out of...

what about a water test every 2 weeks or so....or maybe whenever i face an issue... my local shopkeeper gives a free water test for customers who are buying products from him for more than a year.....i will be giving a sample tomorrow...will that be valid.... like i started giving my water for...

ok.....maybe you are right....currently I wont be able to rehome these guys.....like i already tried it....the local shopkeeper refused to take them....a few of my friends dont want the fish I have in my tank....i will try my best to keep them happy as much as i can...maybe until they die due to...

yes i know about NT labs test kits...they cost the same as API....almost the same...a 10$ difference ( API is AROUND 65$ WHILE THE NT is around 55$) (they would simply tell that the tank only costed them 70$ and they wont spend 55$ on "some kit") (the pair of rainbows costed my 2$, 2 pairs of...

not to argue with you or something....I initially bought a pair of shubunkins like 1.5 years back..one of the jumped out and died (i used to go to another shop back then...that guy told that zebra danios go well with shubunkins...but then all of them started to nip the shubunkins and one decided...

but the tap water in my region is really HARD...the TDS reaches around 1200ppm and the pH AROUND 9... i tried mixing both the RO water and dechlorinated tap water...but my pH somehow went out of control...so sticking with RO water...i adjusted my RO so that it can reduce the hardness...

yea...about that....even tho i dont have a kit..i have some amount of experience on how MY fish behave in bad water conditions.....like when the water is a little bad...my mollies would start breathing fast...but the rainbows and the shubunkin would be fine....and with this weekly water change...

before i continue....I am only 17 and do not have a source of income(here(india) people dont go to work until they are 18+)...i rely on my parents....and they are quite against spending more on the tank(they think i might get distracted from studies if they spend more on that...and also...

she stopped doing that S shaped body...

yes i know it is clean....like after all the mollies died the shubunkin was all alone for a month....normal...then i added a pair of rainbows and added one more shubunkin as the already existing one was alone....the tank was stable for like 2 months...then i bought mollies again.... its around...

yes i know those goldfish produce a lot of waste....i do a heavy gravel vacuum(removing the plants and decors) every month or once in 2 months....while doing the weekly changes...i do a light gravel vacuum....never faced an ammonia spike or something like that tho....

currently i am using RO water(TDS is around 200).....i have no clue on how to check the GH of the water

i did not remove the live plants...i removed the artificial plants.....just to make sure that the plastic aint detoriating or the plants are hurting the fish

from that corner my television would be visible...my whole living room will be visible....likr the place where my tank kept is surrounded by walls...the only side not covered is the front.... i had my older 5G tank in front of the TV...but then as we always had our hometheatre turned on...the...

i have no idea of the GH.....but when i first started being an aquarist...i cycled my 5G tank for around 2 weeks then started with 4 mollies.....and all of them died....i used tap water at the beginning....they died the next day i introduced them to the tank

i do a 30L water change every 8 days or so.....and my shubunkins are quite fine with these temps....they dont seem to have any kind of issue...never seen them acting weird or have a disease

like i had mollies and the shubunkin in a smaller (i was a newbie back then) 5G tank and none of them acted weird...and yes this is the same tank...but the mollies which wiggled died like a few months back....i got the rainbows a month after the whole pack of 6 mollies died....the only remaining...