Aquarists, UNITE!!!

[Zephyr]

Yes "Peach" likes the pellets, but she has left 2 crawlers in the tank I had to skim back out the next day.

What have I gotten myself into here?? If I start setting up aquariums all over the house that actually have water in them, please shoot me.

lol
My parents kill me any time I mention "aquatics."

But I do brake for clawed frogs. :P

[Snake lover 3-25]

uploading.........

[Snake lover 3-25]

ok done.....








here is him and the other one that he gets along with..... they had the same kind of tail.....

[Zephyr]

Ooh.
From one side it looked okay, from the other... Egh...
Skim off the excess food and keep the water immaculate.
Put in a pinch of salt and start treating with small doses of a generic medication. Your biggest enemy is fin rot.

[Snake lover 3-25]

ok i'll try the little guy sure is worth it...... is it any good that he has improved ten fold in the last 24 hrs???
he was just kinda floating up twards the top..... but now he's swimming around ok.... and he can use his right fin..... i just saw him..... but i think it may hurt him or be difficult..... he uses it for a few secs then just tucks it back onto his side.... i just put the food in there...... but i'll take out any extra..... um... how do you give antibiotics/meds to a fish???

[Zephyr]

ok i'll try the little guy sure is worth it...... is it any good that he has improved ten fold in the last 24 hrs???
he was just kinda floating up twards the top..... but now he's swimming around ok.... and he can use his right fin..... i just saw him..... but i think it may hurt him or be difficult..... he uses it for a few secs then just tucks it back onto his side.... i just put the food in there...... but i'll take out any extra..... um... how do you give antibiotics/meds to a fish???

Mix it in the water.
Follow the dosage on the bottle of medication and cut it into a 3/4 dose.
You don't want to overmedicate.
Do a 50% water change every 2 days.
That should help.

[Snake lover 3-25]

ok, thank you so much

[Snake lover 3-25]

so that gold stuff..... he's not suposed to have that??? it looks kind of natural...... it wraps around the bottom...... and is the same on both sides.... sorry the pics aren't good.....

[Charlet_2007]

mealafix or flex its at walmart it a blue bottle.. its a fish saver i swear on it..

[Lori P]

Depends on the filtration. And cories ARE true schooling fish; they need groups of 5 or more.
As for the goldfish being dirty... For one it generally isn't good to keep a tropical fish with a coldwater fish; Jeffy might have caught a pathogen from the cory, no matter how long they've been together.

You know, Kyle brings up a good point about the poor cory. He's the last survivor from a group from years ago... and when I got Jeffy last year, the cory's last buddy had passed. I don't even know why I did it, but I moved him in with Jeffy and they've been buds ever since. I knew it was bad to have tropical with coldwater... but they both flourished, and it just kind of became normal. Jeffy stays near the cory a lot, they vaccuum the bottom together. I never got more corys, because I knew it was the wrong tank to have them in.

So... they live together in a 29 gallon tank with a three stage filter system and extra aeration. I do a 10% water change every week and vaccuum the bottom every other week.

Here's a pic, before Jeffy started hiding...



He hides under the stump all the time now. This morning, he swam toward me, but no wiggles...