Fish Lovers 2.0

[Dakotak]

I went to Walmart to pick up some bread, and was tempted to look at their fish. Their poor common goldfish were infested with parasites! They had worms, fungus, and others that I wasn't quite sure of. Urg, Walmart should not be in charge of fish. Their bettas, kept in cups like most stores, were way over fed. They were bloated and looked miserable. I believe Walmart should stick to non-living things. .-.

Agreeded. I called a corporate office for a walmart near me beacuse the bones of the ribs of a goldfish where showing. You could see the actual bones. They cleaned it up and every time I go over now they look healthier and the tank looks clean but it's still overstocked.
Try calling the corporate office, they don't like it when the store messes up.

[Dappled Sapphire]

I went to Walmart to pick up some bread, and was tempted to look at their fish. Their poor common goldfish were infested with parasites! They had worms, fungus, and others that I wasn't quite sure of. Urg, Walmart should not be in charge of fish. Their bettas, kept in cups like most stores, were way over fed. They were bloated and looked miserable. I believe Walmart should stick to non-living things. .-.

Agreeded. I called a corporate office for a walmart near me beacuse the bones of the ribs of a goldfish where showing. You could see the actual bones. They cleaned it up and every time I go over now they look healthier and the tank looks clean but it's still overstocked.
Try calling the corporate office, they don't like it when the store messes up.

its great that they fixed it

[Autotomy]

UGH. I went to the pet store and all of the loaches had ich, they had giant pacus with their heads all red and stringy from bashing their heads into the tank too small for them, and the had a stinking 6-inch RED-TAIL catfish in with a 4-inch MEKONG catfish. Both in a half-full 40 gallon. And they had " Tooty-fruity frogs", or dwarf albino frogs dyed in neon pink, yellow, orange and green in with brooding guppies. And not to mention tattooed green spotted puffers(they're pretty enough already! D:) in with plecos and severums in a brackish 40 gallon.

That store is seriously messed up. I got my spirulina flakes, PimaFix, MelaFix, and platy female(cerulean/sky blue high-fin with silver flecks) and went.

And also, anyone here with clown loaches? I've got one(last one in the pet store) named Wally. He's about 3 inches long, and has an irregular large dot on his flank. He's killed off the majority of my guppies(now banished to cichlid tank #1), but I still love him all the same. Despite going missing for 4 months once and floating up to the surface, looking dead.

(I keep 6 tanks. 1 30 gal in my room, tropical community, 1 10 gal with my tame rescue tilapia(the neighbors raise them, he came to me with no fins, but now he has long, flowing fins and a shiny sterling-silver body <3), 1 "shrimp tank" with 4 self-cloning crayfish(Marmorkebs or something like that), 1 20 gal with 2 kribensis, 1 65 gal with 2 lemon "killers" and an unidentified pink humphead cichlid that plays with your fingers, comes up to the tank edge when I enter the room, lays down and sleeps when I'm not there, and 1 40 gal with 4 labidochromis x slender mbuna cichlids, Wally(as mentioned before), a female Swallowtail, and 2 yoyo loaches)

[dark dragon]

[quote="Rdze"]UGH. I went to the pet store and all of the loaches had ich, they had giant pacus with their heads all red and stringy from bashing their heads into the tank too small for them, and the had a stinking 6-inch RED-TAIL catfish in with a 4-inch MEKONG catfish. Both in a half-full 40 gallon. And they had " Tooty-fruity frogs", or dwarf albino frogs dyed in neon pink, yellow, orange and green in with brooding guppies. And not to mention tattooed green spotted puffers(they're pretty enough already! D:) in with plecos and severums in a brackish 40 gallon.

That store is seriously messed up. I got my spirulina flakes, PimaFix, MelaFix, and platy female(cerulean/sky blue high-fin with silver flecks) and went.

And also, anyone here with clown loaches? I've got one(last one in the pet store) named Wally. He's about 3 inches long, and has an irregular large dot on his flank. He's killed off the majority of my guppies(now banished to cichlid tank #1), but I still love him all the same. Despite going missing for 4 months once and floating up to the surface, looking dead.

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my dad has four or five clowns (hard to tell they are in their caves right now) they are about 3 possibly 4 inches those poor fish have been through alot moving flea bombing (and forgeting to cover the tank during flea bombing) and power outages and parasites.

[sarcasteil]

Plecos.. Are they algae eaters? Do they work well with GF's? I might get one.. Probably a common..

[Dappled Sapphire]

Plecos.. Are they algae eaters? Do they work well with GF's? I might get one.. Probably a common..

Common don't really, they do when they are younger but not so much when they are older, plus you would need like an 100G tank for him they get huge
By gf do you mean goldfish? If so then I wouldn't recommend it, it will more then likely eat their slime coat and kill them
If you want Pleco go for something smaller like a Bristlenose Pleco, they are only small and will eat algae and won't bother the other fish


Oh is it for your pond? I don't think I have ever heard of anyone putting a Pleco in a pond, they are tropical fish

[Dakotak]

Plecos.. Are they algae eaters? Do they work well with GF's? I might get one.. Probably a common..

Common don't really, they do when they are younger but not so much when they are older, plus you would need like an 100G tank for him they get huge
By gf do you mean goldfish? If so then I wouldn't recommend it, it will more then likely eat their slime coat and kill them
If you want Pleco go for something smaller like a Bristlenose Pleco, they are only small and will eat algae and won't bother the other fis
Oh is it for your pond? I don't think I have ever heard of anyone putting a Pleco in a pond, they are tropical fish

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I agree with jelly. The only plecos that can be safly put with goldfish are the bristle nose and rubber nose(even with them are are some dangers). If you are just trying to get rid of algae its better to scrub and do frequent waterchanges. An algae eating fish will add to your bioload.

[sarcasteil]

Thing is, I have a "bed of algae" and it stirs up easily. -.- what water changes should I do? I think there's around 250 gals in it now. Can't add more than I think 390, the goat poo my mom put in the water bamboo will float outta the pot and into the water. Much as I like watching my fish come up near the surface when there wasn't any poo and water level was high.

Do you guys know any plants that go well with goldfish? I was thinking about water lilies, but if I forget to feed them they starrt snacking on the leaves -3- anything to reduce the bio-load. Does Java moss do well?
Seems a bit funny since I'm living in Java now XD)

And most importantly how to reduce my algae bomb?

[Dappled Sapphire]

Thing is, I have a "bed of algae" and it stirs up easily. -.- what water changes should I do? I think there's around 250 gals in it now. Can't add more than I think 390, the goat poo my mom put in the water bamboo will float outta the pot and into the water. Much as I like watching my fish come up near the surface when there wasn't any poo and water level was high.

Do you guys know any plants that go well with goldfish? I was thinking about water lilies, but if I forget to feed them they starrt snacking on the leaves -3- anything to reduce the bio-load. Does Java moss do well?
Seems a bit funny since I'm living in Java now XD)

And most importantly how to reduce my algae bomb?

java ferns, anubias ferns and the thick amazon swords are afew that they dont eat as they are too tough
they will eat java moss... but if you dont mind that then I'm sure they will enjoy it
adding plants will reduce the algea

[Dakotak]

Thing is, I have a "bed of algae" and it stirs up easily. -.- what water changes should I do? I think there's around 250 gals in it now. Can't add more than I think 390, the goat poo my mom put in the water bamboo will float outta the pot and into the water. Much as I like watching my fish come up near the surface when there wasn't any poo and water level was high.

Do you guys know any plants that go well with goldfish? I was thinking about water lilies, but if I forget to feed them they starrt snacking on the leaves -3- anything to reduce the bio-load. Does Java moss do well?
Seems a bit funny since I'm living in Java now XD)

And most importantly how to reduce my algae bomb?

I would do once or twice a week of 20-50%. Plants will help with the algae but IMO algae in a pond is good and looks nice unless its brown and algae in a pond is hard to get rid of.
Anibus,Java fern,banana plant,onion plant,duckweed,anascharis,amazon swords sometimes do well,jungle vals sometimes do well. I have seen people have corkscrew vals in their goldie tanks. Java moss is fine but I had issues with it growing in my tank.
Goldfish will eat just about anything. Plants are good for then though.
The only way to reduce the bioload is less fish or more filters.