Celebrating one year

[Hendre]

I hate it when people are ignorant around fish, i accept that my goldfish are not getting excellent care but i am doing as much as i can to get a larger container as soon as possible. I saw a classified ad with a 4 ft tank with:
1 x 20cm "golden" pleco
1 x 15 cm pleco
3 x pangasius shark 35-45cm

 

[Angelphish]

Do I have to do water changes before the eggs hatch? Or is it not until I have to feed them until I do water changes?

 

[Hendre]

Maybe just wait, i dont think PH changes would benefit them to my knowledge. after hatching WC helps survival rate significantly

 

[Angelphish]

Water changes shouldn't be hard, considering the eggs are currently in a container that holds a half gallon or less.

 

[Angelphish]

Once they get too big I plan on moving them to the 20g with the parents. There is plenty of algae and I wrapped a piece of a filter pad around the filter intakes so none of the fry would be sucked in. I had to resort to that because my Dad wouldn't let me get a sponge filter.

 

[Hendre]

do you not have a larger container? a half gallon with no filter will soon result in dead fry

 

[Angelphish]

do you not have a larger container? a half gallon with no filter will soon result in dead fry

Like I said, I do plan on moving them back with the parents.

 

[Angelphish]

I have a spare 2.5 gal that I can use for now.

 

[Hendre]

If you cull fry then a 2.5 should do till they are too big to be eaten, try and raise the best ones instead of splitting effort between healthy and sickly fish

 

[Angelphish]

Currently the only way I can heat the tank is to take the heater out of my Betta's tank. I'm hoping that the decrease in temperature from the tank to room temp won't hurt him.