disgustipated

are these wild caught? or the offspring of wild caught discus?

golden algae eaters are the most aggressive fish i have ever kept. and i have kept all kinds of american cichlids, oscars, convicts, jaguars, salvinis. none have compared or even come close in aggressiveness to the golden algae eaters. they get worse as they get bigger too. they just won't leave other fish alone!

i knew butter came from cows but bread too?

i kept 4 comets and one oranda in a tropical tank 26-28 degrees c for two years, in that time they grew from 4cm to 20cm, spawned several times, ate 20 fully grown penguin tetras, and got so big and fat that i ended up giving them to ronnie to go in his auckland outdoor pond. where they are to this day, still growing, still eating like pigs... considering goldfish originally come from tropical climates, and are kept all over the world in places like america where fish tanks sit at tropical temps without heating, it is only logical to assume that they will be fine in tropical temp waters. logic aside, i, and many others have seen first and second hand how successful goldfish are in tropical temps. in fact, i believe that keeping them in an unheated tanks or ponds over NZ winter where temps can drop to freezing is a lot worse than keeping them just a few degrees above the "norm". for the fishes comfort, it's most important to keep the temperature constant and consistent. i apologise on behalf of fnzas that you are getting conflicting advise here. do some research on the internet and you will find the truth for yourself, there is tons of information out there on keeping gold fish.

i take it she doesn't browse these forums...

maybe you got sterilized guppies

you can keep it in the big tropical tank with no worries. only thing is he will probably eat any smaller fish you have.

and if you really want them to bloom, sort out a CO2 system

flourite works well

plecos ate 'em

did they get noticeably much bigger in that time?

i've had a few of my 50 or so die off already, some died within hours of being added to the tank, few more over the last week, but most of them are still there prancing around like the weird little aliens they are.. they love eating hikari carnivore pellets. the shrimp will grab a crumb, run off to the other side of the tank and hide away from the fish to devour it. gobys and bullies are cleaning out the carcasses of the dead shrimp, just leaving shells. anyway. tank has not gone over 22, usually sits around 20-21. what's the lifespan of dem shrimpy brothers anyway? i assume that in the wild many shrimp don't make it to womanhood (aka adulthood) anyway.

why would you bother? i mean. in tank heaters are so cheap these days.

RBP

came for pics of bearded dragon babies. disappointed

i got some of my best fish/critters with a $2 shop net.

cool as. i like the overgrown jungle sorta look

answer to the same question from someone on mfk

are they piranha in the 3rd pic?

howdy folks. topic is: telling the difference between blue gene dempseys and normal (green) dempseys. some say you can, some say you can't. what say you? how can you tell?

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