Fish lovers!

[Dappled Sapphire]

Oh my God XDDD My mom is chatting with our friend on Facebook. Apparently he does that all the time. It's just him. xD

Stupid fish. Thanks for worrying me. >.>

Personaly I don't think its normal for a goldfish to act like that unless its unhappy

[Kickin' up dirt]

Noticed a fish thread and figured I would stop by. c:
I usually float around on the Betta thread, as for it was all I owned.

Anyways, I own 8 Betta. [ 1 Veiltail, 3 HMPK, 1 Halfmoon, 1 Crowntail, and two fry. ]
And today I added two Guppy to the family. I expect to turn my ten gallon
into a live community tank, with either female betta, or Guppies. I'll probably go with guppy, being I can house more than one male together, and they are more vibrant in color.

-Fascai

Hey Fascai! I like the guppy idea

[Cardinal]

@Aven: Le sigh. You need to do a 100% water change and drip acclimate the fish back to the water. My guess is its living in filthy water with sky high Ammonia/nitrates/nitrites. Save all the gravel, do not wash it out. Change the water, add the gravel, run the filter, and then add the fish back after drip acclimating said fish. Ditch the pH test, pH is generally moot unless you're keeping cichlids or delicate fish. My water pH from he sink is 8.4, once in the tank it dropped to 7.6 in one tank and 7.4 in the other tank.. /shrug. Anything can basically randomly change pH therefore pH is moot. xD Grab a API freshwater master test kit. Avoid the strips.. They are unreliable. Go with a liquid test kit always.

Is he a fancy or common? Fancies do fine in a 30ish gallon whereas commons need 55 gallons and up. x.x Storage totes are pretty cheap and work well as make-shift aquariums. Craigslist normally has great deals on 55 gallons. I saw a 55 gallon for $30 once, wasn't water tight but thats easy enough to fix. At least upgrade as much and as fast as you can if you guys are dead-set on owning the goldfish, otherwise seek out someone with a pond.

Drip method: http://www.ratemyfishtank.com/articles/97 To keep from shocking the fish with clean water.

Do you know about cycling? http://www.fishlore.com/NitrogenCycle.htm Just in case. =)

[Aven]

Thanks Cardinal. ^^ He's a comet goldfish. And I know he should be in a huge tank. We're planning to find someone with a pond to take him in in a little while. He's not gonna be here for that long.

[Cardinal]

Thanks Cardinal. ^^ He's a comet goldfish. And I know he should be in a huge tank. We're planning to find someone with a pond to take him in in a little while. He's not gonna be here for that long.

Awesome sauce then, so many people dont know. ^^; Just keep up on large water changes a couple times a week and you should be good to go. =) You could also see if he'll take so some frozen peas for dinner or try pinning down some dark leaf lettuce for a snack.

[Aven]

Awesome, thanks again. (:

[.Coyote]

I wanted to post a picture of my fish bowl, so here it is!
This is the 3 gallon with a female betta fish

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u133 ... CN3465.jpg

The black circle looking thing in there is a DIY filter. I've got three plants in there so far, one anubias and two Java ferns. So far =P

[Dappled Sapphire]

I wanted to post a picture of my fish bowl, so here it is!
This is the 3 gallon with a female betta fish

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u133 ... CN3465.jpg

The black circle looking thing in there is a DIY filter. I've got three plants in there so far, one anubias and two Java ferns. So far =P

hey looks good but just letting you know if you bury those types of plants roots in the substrate they can rot
just a heads up
I have mine tied to driftwood with fishing line till it gets established but you could always just tie it to an ornament or attach some kind of weight to keep it down

[ReadingIndigo]

I wanted to post a picture of my fish bowl, so here it is!
This is the 3 gallon with a female betta fish

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u133 ... CN3465.jpg

The black circle looking thing in there is a DIY filter. I've got three plants in there so far, one anubias and two Java ferns. So far =P

hey looks good but just letting you know if you bury those types of plants roots in the substrate they can rot
just a heads up :mrgreen:

You can bury the roots, just not the rhizome. The rhizome is the thing that the roots are connected to.

[.Coyote]

... Huh. Huh?

Which plant? Both or just one of the kinds?