Opiate;1690023; said:
What do you do now quarantine the goldfish couple weeks before using them as feeders?
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What do you do now quarantine the goldfish couple weeks before using them as feeders?
Louie;1694256; said:
yea, oput em in bucket for a while with fresh water runnin through it...cleans em out...
I think I may fill several pages with my fish keeping mistakes
My first approach to fish keeping was with a bunch of common guppies.
I was told that they were the easiest fish to keep and breed.
Therefore, I got 2 tanks full of guppies and soon I also got lot of new babies
Then I saw an Amazon leaf fish in my local pet shop. It was amazing, just like a leaf floating in the water. I bought a pair of them and put them together with my guppies.
And I was worried because I didnt know how to feed the leaf fish!!!
Few days after I found that my guppy population has decreased dramatically; so as there where no fish in the floor, I started suspect on the leaf fish; but I have never seen them eating until then.
I was looking my tank for a while and I saw how the huge mouth of the leaf fish opened and swallowed an adult guppy, and another, and another
I think that strong experience influenced me to love fish keeping.
I was 11 years old at that time.
My first approach to fish keeping was with a bunch of common guppies.
I was told that they were the easiest fish to keep and breed.
Therefore, I got 2 tanks full of guppies and soon I also got lot of new babies
Then I saw an Amazon leaf fish in my local pet shop. It was amazing, just like a leaf floating in the water. I bought a pair of them and put them together with my guppies.
And I was worried because I didnt know how to feed the leaf fish!!!
Few days after I found that my guppy population has decreased dramatically; so as there where no fish in the floor, I started suspect on the leaf fish; but I have never seen them eating until then.
I was looking my tank for a while and I saw how the huge mouth of the leaf fish opened and swallowed an adult guppy, and another, and another
I think that strong experience influenced me to love fish keeping.
I was 11 years old at that time.
Fed my Firemouth pair a heavy seafood diet. Turns out one of the undocumented things about T. meeki is that they're quite intolerant of seafood in their diet. Had lost both a few days apart from eachother about a fortnight after they stopped eating all food. Two weeks on my custom seafood/vegie mix was enough to kill them 
Where I used to live, our house had a backyard pond. When we sold the house, we decided to take the koi with us. Most were about 6" and I was able to keep them in my large cooler. I also had a large maybe 15" koi. While we were dis-mantling the pond, I kept him/her in my glass 100gallon tank until I was able to give them to my friend. One night, of course at 3am, I hear a loud crash and the sound of water spilling. It seems that somehow the koi cracked the glass and the whole panel shattered. Nothing worse than waking up at 3am and trying to catch a large flapping fish while avoiding glass shards and trying not to slip. I learned the hard way that's why large fish, like pacus etc... are called tankbusters. The koi survived and is now living at my friend's pond. The Doctor.
When I breeding platys I had a 10 gallon that I kept my 3 purebreeds and after a stream adventure brought home a baby chinese catfish, threw it in with the platys went to sleep and that abruptly ended my platy breeding phase.
not my mistake, someone i know had a 160 tank system with 5 sumps back in the 80's. when he did water changes all he did was turn the tap timer on for an hour and what everoverflowed went to the street. one day tap didnt work and left water running for 24hrs. lost majority of his fish. he sold up all his equipment started a buisness which makes himn a heap of cash so it worked out for the better
Decided to raise the ph with baking soda, 
in the space of three seconds the ph shot up from 5 to over 7 
only one fish died, an acarichthys heckelii. or recently i put my fish in a bag had to go to the hospital and stayed for three hours! all my tetra's died, 4 dicrossus filamentossus and a two inch, baby Aequidens species, ouch!
in the space of three seconds the ph shot up from 5 to over 7 only one fish died, an acarichthys heckelii. or recently i put my fish in a bag had to go to the hospital and stayed for three hours! all my tetra's died, 4 dicrossus filamentossus and a two inch, baby Aequidens species, ouch!I put a blue lobster in the same tank with a EBJD and an arius seemani, who waited for him to moult and ripped him limb from limb. The arius's stomach looked like he ate a tire, and the dempsey had a lobster claw hanging out of his mouth for a couple hours.
