Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:55 am Post subject: ?'s about diseases
Does anyone know anything about diseases of fish?I have Fancytail goldfish and they keep getting ick.I purchased my most recent ones from the same place and I think this is how they are getting it.I haven't been too successful with keeping fish.I had my Black Moore for 2 years and he was doing awesome and my stupid filter got clogged up and stopped working.He died but a few survived.I have a whisper filter in a 10 gallon tank.
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:57 am Post subject: Freshwater and Sharks??
Also my husband wants to get redtail sharks/mini sharks not sure what these need to survive in captivity.I am not talking about the super large ones,the kind that get about 12-24" in length.Also is there any good books anyone could recommend for me or websites to visit about this and fresh water fish.Thanks a bunch in advance.
Well, I'm not really an expert, but if you keep getting sick fish from the same place, it's quite possible that they don't take good care of them. Also, you might check that you're feeding them the right food, and you have the right amount of salt in the tank. I'm not too good at keeping fish either, but I have one of those bio-wheels, and I never replace that...but I guess if it stopped turning I'd replace it. Anyway, I have a rosy barb, it had some friends, and i even had a little bottom feeder, but most of them died, and then on vacation once our heater stopped working, and it killed my second-to-last fish, the bottom feeder, so now I just have the one. But he's doing well.
I have Fancytail goldfish and they keep getting ick
Did you mean Ich (whitespot) or sick ?
if you can describe the symptoms I'll try and help.
I am an experienced aquatic retailer and can usually help for tropical, Marine and coldwater fish.
As for the redtail black shark, it is not a community tank fish. it will over time get more and more aggressive attacking anything smaller and usually bigger fish as well.
by Mini sharks, I assume you are referring to the silver sharks (Bala shark, Tri-colour shark, Malaysian shark) (Balantiocheilos melanopterus)
they can grow up to 14" (35cm) in the wild but usually smaller in aquaria - around 6-8" (15-20cm)
A 4ft/120cm tank will be sufficient for a few juveniles, but realistically a 6ft/180cm tank is required to allow them to thrive once they reach adult size.
Provide refuges, but leave plenty of swimming space with no sharp decor
Despite their eventual size, they are peaceful community fish. It is preferable to keep them as a shoal, at least 2 or more though this requires a very large tank eventually. They may be harassed by more territorial tankmates such as Red Tailed Black sharks.
keep them at around 22-28C (72-82F)
The Water should be fairly soft, slightly acidic (pH 6.5-7) ideally, but they do fine in harder and more alkaline water
They are Omnivorous, and will eat just about anything, but some vegetable component to the diet is a good idea, usually cucumber etc..
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:40 pm Post subject: I have a 20 Gal. Tank
I have a 20 Gal. Tank with 12 small peaceful fish. I have 4 new Angels (2 small, 2 larger) now, but before I got my 7 new fish the other day, I had only 5 fish. My fish suddenly started dying after my two other Angels passed.
But, that's not my point. My Angels were young. Like, not even two years I think. Actually, I began with 3 Angels. One died not long after we bought them. After a year or more, one died. The other got a bubble-lip disease from stress of being alone, I believe, and couldn't eat so it died. What I'm wondering is how the first one (or second one, I guess) died. What would be some possible causes? Our filter was working. They had enough to eat, certainly. If not fed, I'm sure they'd be fine eating the snails from our plants (which we bought a Clown Loach to finish off the invasion).
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