Fish Lovers 3.0 [new poll]

[Dakotak]

I just came home to find out something horrible, all eight of the goldfish in our pond died. The water level went down a lot last night, this morning I a noticed it and told my mom before leaving for school but it was already too late. The three plecos survived somehow, I have no idea how all three of them survived but none of the goldfish. The pond has a small crack in im pretty sure that's why water went down, we are going to fill it in as soon as possible. I looked at the one goldfish and none of them seemed to have any sort of desease. My mom mentioned that a few of the goldfish had torn fins. Has anyone had any problems with have a pleco attack a goldfish before?

Also please ignore any mistakes in my writing I'm a bit flustered and sad about the sudden death of all my goldfish

Plecos are normally not recommended to be housed with goldfish. They have been known to attack foldfish and eat the slime coat. It also could be from stress or lack of oxygen from the lowering water level.

Today my last two goldfish decided to fight and now one has a torn fin. And the fight was completely out of the blue, do you guys have any idea why? The only thing i can think of is food since both of them are greedy, or the fact that i'm pretty sure they're both males. My older goldfish has been in the tank since i got it, and hes never attacked any other fish before because of how timid he is. What do i do guys?

How big is the tank? What types are they?
It could also be breeding time. Goldfish can get aggressive toward each other during that time.

[odd miku]

I just came home to find out something horrible, all eight of the goldfish in our pond died. The water level went down a lot last night, this morning I a noticed it and told my mom before leaving for school but it was already too late. The three plecos survived somehow, I have no idea how all three of them survived but none of the goldfish. The pond has a small crack in im pretty sure that's why water went down, we are going to fill it in as soon as possible. I looked at the one goldfish and none of them seemed to have any sort of desease. My mom mentioned that a few of the goldfish had torn fins. Has anyone had any problems with have a pleco attack a goldfish before?

Also please ignore any mistakes in my writing I'm a bit flustered and sad about the sudden death of all my goldfish

Plecos are normally not recommended to be housed with goldfish. They have been known to attack foldfish and eat the slime coat. It also could be from stress or lack of oxygen from the lowering water level.

Today my last two goldfish decided to fight and now one has a torn fin. And the fight was completely out of the blue, do you guys have any idea why? The only thing i can think of is food since both of them are greedy, or the fact that i'm pretty sure they're both males. My older goldfish has been in the tank since i got it, and hes never attacked any other fish before because of how timid he is. What do i do guys?

How big is the tank? What types are they?
It could also be breeding time. Goldfish can get aggressive toward each other during that time.

I have two comet goldfish, and a 55 gallon tank for them and a 20 gallon that we use for when we clean their regular tanks. The breeding time is a good idea, but they've never attacked each other like this, even in the last breeding time.

[flyteck]

How big are they? They might just be sexually mature now.

[odd miku]

How big are they? They might just be sexually mature now.

The large one is about 6 inches and the other one is about 5 and a half.

[makoto niijima]

Username: [url=account link]Maddie Ziegler[/url]
How many fish tanks do you have:
Types of fish that you have:
Betta, just a Betta
Your fishs' names:
Artemis
How long have you had fish:
1/2 yeras

also my tank gallon number is 5))

[snarfsnarf]

Hm. Lost my smallest black ruby barb. All the others are perfectly fine.
The few tiger barbs are still sick but holding on.
African featherfin catfish is healed up, doing better than ever. No more open wounds or anything. Super glad.
My new unnamed betta was moved from a little cup to a vase with a fake plant, temporarily, until I have the money to buy him a little 2g Fluval of his own. He's with all the Malaysian trumpet snails I can find in my main tank, from the plants I just added, I'm pulling them out and putting them in the vase 'cause I hate Malaysian trumpets.
He's gonna be with some cherry shrimp when I move him to his own tank 'cause he doesn't seem to care about inverts at all.

[Menidia]

Username: [url=account link]Menidia[/url]
How many fish tanks do you have:
4
Types of fish that you have:
2 adult convict cichlids, 1 betta, 2 killifish, 1 ocellaris clownfish, 1 sixline wrasse
Your fishs' names:
Male convict is named Oedipus, betta is Orion
How long have you had fish:
I've had fish for quite some time, around 14 years, though didn't really get into the hobby until about 5 years ago

Oedipus


Ocellaris

[Bolt1784]

If anyone remembers when I mentioned a baby damselfly here, I just wanted to
let you know that sadly the little guy passed away in the night. :< If you look
them up, they have three tail things and somehow he managed to sever
them from his body in the container he's in (which was floating in the tank).
I think that they use those tail things to breathe, so sadly he might have
slowly suffocated. But I did try to keep him alive. c': RIP little dude. <3

[Hime]

Randomly checked out the iron level in my tank today(along with NO2 and NO3). In past I've had the issue of it not really going down over the week. But today it only read 0,05(usually it's been around 0,2-0,4). Yay, my plants are finally really using th iron. So I gave the some more to 'eat'. ^^ My plant experiment box is also doing fairly nicely. The Hydrocotyle tripartita is really growing well and even one of the Hygrophilas has started to grow out of the water(it's tiny box, maybe 5 liters at most).

[Blood Storm]

before I make a bad decision, are plecos salt-intolerant like regular catfish? my Oscar is getting over a bit of hole-in-the-head disease(hexamita), and I know salt helps with healing and kills parasites, both external and otherwise. but before I dump salt in the tank I wanted to know if I needed to evict the pleco into the 30 gallon with the bichir until the Oscar healed up.