EmoKittehXD wrote:Remember how i was talking about my five gallon tank? i'm not so sure about the gallon thing anymore. i found a booklet stating its a 10-gallon hexagon, not 5. And i have a female betta and two snails
I was wondering if i could get another beta or two (female of course) to establish a pecking order like you said.
http://reef.diesyst.com/volcalc/volcalc.html
You can also use Jellys link.
Right now you only need to fill out the Main Aquarium section. Just pick your shape, select from the drop down menu and measure what it tells you to.
Lets see how many gallons the tank is before you add any bettas. I know there needs to be a certain size tank for betta sororities but Im not sure how much. If our betta expert sees this maybe they can help out. If not Ill do more research into it.
EmoKittehXD wrote:Oh and also, my small animal vet teacher took some of the fish because the ones in her pond had died. she cleaned it out and got rid of the bullfrog she found eating them, by releasing him into a river about a few miles away. she set up the pond again. Now i only have three comets in the 29-gallon, and they seem to perfer being away from each other versus schooling like they did before. I gave away 10 comets in all, and one died behind the stupid filter yesterday. Now i just have Ponyo, Mcgee, and Suzie. i think suzie is pregnant though. my dad put her into a different tank to want and make sure its not the swim bladder thing because her tummy is swollen. I didn't notice it until now. I think my teacher might have baby fish in her pond as well, so i told her. she's going to watch and let me know.
Hooray!! Congratulations for being responsible and giving them a good home.
You are still over stocked in the 29 so keep up the frequent water changes. Jelly has already told you that goldfish dont get pregnant so I wont go into it a whole lot but If you put a mop head(clean and not used with chemicals) she will lay her eggs into that. Or plants will do as well. Then you can dispose of them since they wont be fertilized, they wont be alive. You can also feed them to your fish if you want. Its quite a violent act when goldfish spawn so make sure there is nothing in the tank she can get hurt on.EmoKittehXD wrote:And also, back when i only had the yellow snail, i kept it in my 29 gallon. by itself with some goldfish. Why did it just sit above the waterline? I was afraid it died at one point. he was up, just sitting above the waterline... for an entire weekend before i realized it. i opened the lid and i almost got sick from the stench. he wasn't even inside his shell either! i took my fishnet and gave him a slight nudge. he dropped into the water immediately and floated there, before sinking to the bottom. Within an hour he started moving again. why did he do that? (this was before he went into my beta tank for being so lazy.)
Goldfish will eat just about anything. So if the goldfish saw it they could have harassed it to the point of it wanting to get out of there. Also high waste levels will make snails crawl out of the tank. So if that was the case then he would have wanted to get out as well.
As Jelly said if they are apple snails, the eggs will be really easy to remove. You scrape them off,freeze them overnight then throw away.
Fish are too fast for the snails to get on them. Even if the fish was sleeping(which is when a lot of plecos attack goldies) the fish would feel their antennae and move.
