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  1. Sorry for the lack of updates. They are doing wonderful! Very active and look good. I just need to add some more fish to the tank. Plus since 2 died before I rescued them from the bar I'm thinking of trying to find two more. Not sure on that though.
  2. Here we go, just took a quick video. Thanks again to everyone with your suggestions and help! Hopefully video plays for you guys!
  3. So far so good gang! The one that was looking real rough is doing better. Eyes are slowly looking better, he's swimming around with the other 3 more and more and I even saw him eating some crumbs out of the gravel. The colors are coming through on all the fish, my wife thought they were all getting sick because she's never seen them with good color. Been feeding variety of foods, krill flakes, dried shrimp, frozen blood worms even tried algae wafers which they all snubbed of course. Here is the latest picture. I'll try and get a video and better pics loaded. This is like the 3rd time I've tried to update everyone but I didn't like the pictures I took. So here's all I got at the moment 😆 Oh ya, I'm probably going to pull the HoB and put another sponge filter in. Thoughts?
  4. Here are a couple of pics. Sorry it's a bit dark, I'm still trying to keep this as stress free as possible for them while they heal up. I'm seeing fin damage on a couple and Popeye on both eyes of one and on one eye of another. The one with Popeye on both is still swimming with a bit of a list to port. I'm certain I can get them healed up, probably gonna keep lights off for awhile and just let whatever natural light do its thing for now. Even the one that is looking the roughest is starting to swim more with his tank mates. Water test this afternoon shows a smidgen of nitrates! Using the sponge filter and clay pot from the other established tank is helping it appears. Last pic is the water conditioner that they were using. Thoughts on that? Safe to use or just dump it and stick to something better?
  5. I've never seen a heater rust like this. Gonna trash it next time I get in the restaurant/bar so no one else tries to clean it up to reuse.
  6. Ya, I wasn't excited about the product they were using for dechlorinating. I mean it said that was one of the things it did. But just not sure how long they've had that giant bottle sitting under the tank. If I remember I'll try and get a pic of it and post it here. At least the ammonia reading was zero on that test. Heh
  7. I'm not sure if it's moving around. If the HOB pushes enough water through it might be moving around in there. I'll check tomorrow. Don't want to stress these silver dollars anymore than I have and turn on a light right now. One of them has just kinda laid at the bottom since putting them in almost 2 hours ago. 😔
  8. I thought up a little extra filtration while I was was waiting for a few more things I needed to do with my new 75gal. I am using a HOB as an emergency filter while I figure out what I want for filtration. (This is from my bar tank rescue thread, saving the silver dollars or at least trying). Anyways I have a problem of throwing things away and I kept the little planter containers some of my plants came in. I also had just a few leftover quartz rings I bought awhile back just sitting in a drawer in the bottle still. I put the rings into one planter container, then decided to put two together, then linked them together with some lead weights and dropped it into the HOB behind the filter pad I have in there at the moment. Just figured I'd share with you all, since you guys have been very helpful with all of my questions and very awesome suggestions in helping me in trying to rescue these silver dollars.
  9. Ok, got them all packed up, brought them home. About to put them in tank. ( I don't have much of a choice at this point. I can't leave them in 5gal bucket. 1st pic is test strip from their old tank, next one is from the new one I just set up. The wood in the tank is from their old tank while the fake clay pot is from my well established 55gal. Brought over some algae balls that were attached as well. Just a HOB running with some biimed filter pad is all for now. Gonna put sponge filter in tank here shortly as well from the 55. (It already has a decent canister filter going so shouldn't hurt the 55.) Oh, the brown/burnt looking heater was from the old bar tank. Not sure what was going on there. No, I'm not going to be using that. Heh last two picks are the rocks I bought from home depot and what I had to do to secure the fish for the ride home in the jeep. Don't worry. They had fun, I asked!
  10. Well, I decided on a 75gal. Found a really nice furniture piece my wife was admiring for a stand. Now just rocks/substrate are the only things i need to buy. I think im gonna try local hardware store (home depot) for that. Gonna use tank water from my other tanks and going to steal one of the sponge filters from my 120 to get this tank up and running in a hurry. I was just told because of "reasons" I need to get the fish out of the bar tonight.
  11. Sorry for no update in awhile. Well, things were going good with the tank. Been feeding them better food checking on water conditions every couple weeks. Seemed to get rid of the crap on their eyes. Thwn it would come back, then it would clear up. So hard to get over there and spend time on this tank. I had my wife using dechlorinator when adding water. Water changes are hard to get done there. Now within the last couple days just lost a fish due to bad water or stress I believe. Friday one of them had real bad white cloud over his eye and he wasn't eating. Wife just texted me and said he died within the last two days. This tank is super neglected. Sits next to a door that's left open, employees say they are hitting the tank by accident with advertisement flag poles coming in and out all the time. Wife says it's time to bring them home. Gonna go spend some money to rescue these guys. Suggestions on best tank size for 4 silver dollars? Height and length minimums?
  12. Another week has gone by since last photos were taken. Water looks good today, fish are active. I have noticed two of the silver dollars never go after the flakes, but they don't look starved. Not sure if they are a different type or just more picky or maybe shy about eating in front of me. Heh Anyways I figured I'd send a quick update. I may have to wait another week before moving the tank. Which makes me sad. So many things I want to do, but not until we move it. Quick video
  13. I got these from the discount "bin"/tank at my LFS. They didn't have a label and I forgot to ask what they are when I bought them. Not sure if stems go in the sand/substrate or glued to a rock/log out of the substrate. Any help would be great. I may have found it Nesaea Crassicaulis?
  14. Here's a better pic. Never saw the moss until now. Guess it was barely hanging on in the poor water condition. Maybe like grass in a yard, kind of went dormant? I think I'll pull the lettuce out tomorrow.
  15. Well, this pic was taken two days ago but it looked the same yesterday. They haven't touched the lettuce. My wife said she saw them all huddled around the lettuce just staring at the it. Heh Maybe I'll bring in some frozen food. They are eating the Xpress krill flakes, so they are eating. Also, there appears to be some plant starting to grow on the log. Maybe some moss? I'm not sure. I'll try and get a better pic.
  16. I understand what you're saying. It's my wife's place of work, I know the boss and all of the employees there pretty well. So i dont mind putting out some money to make it better. Getting a cleaning crew in the tank will make the tank better in the long run and should last a little longer between major cleaning. My wife has been the one keeping the fish alive so far. She's been keeping algae off the sides with a mag brush. I had been telling her for awhile it needed cleaned badly, finally her boss gave the thumbs up for me to come take care of it. They really like what they've seen so far so I think I just became the fish guy there. Heh
  17. Ya, they aren't covering expenses. (At least not yet. Heh) I want to give them a Hideaway and I also want to add a good cleanup crew and some more community fish. Maybe some shrimp. But all this has to wait until after we move the tank. I talked them into moving it away from that door and into the main lobby area. The tank will be much better off there as long as I give those silver dollars a place they can "hide" when things get loud or busy around them. It'll be much better then next to a door that slam open and closed and by a mini basketball hoop. Heh
  18. Here's a couple of pics and a video a day later during my lunch break after the dust settled. Seems like 2 of the dollars don't ever eat. I put some lettuce in I brought from home. They ignored it while I was there 😔. I really thought they would go right at it. Guess since they never had any they don't know what they are missing. I dropped a small pinch of Xtreme krill flakes and 2 of them went crazy for it, another one kind went after a few flakes. I'll be back in there after work to check on them. The water seemed warm too. Gonna crank down the heat a little when I get back in there later. I really should get a control box for them too. I think I have an extra one at home. 2 min video of silver dollars swimming. The better part of video is towards the end. After 2nd water change and gravel vacuuming
  19. The bar tank? Won't the silver dollars eat up any plants I put in there? I'd love to try plants in there if anyone knows of a way the silvers won't eat them. Heh Oh wait, are you talking about getting Vallisnaria into the 55?
  20. Quick update here. All fish doing ok still. Just did another water change today (probably 30%). Changed out the airstone in the UGF and added an airstone to an open ended ait hose under the coral deco in the corner. (It didn't have anything there) Then I thought the lone non silver dollar had died, I found him hiding in the pirate ship. I went ahead and pulled him out. I think I'll put him in my 55. Should be ok I think. Forgot to mention, he's a cherry barb.
  21. Kind of what I started thinking. Simplify this a bit. Ill post updates with pics weekly. My wife has been the one taking care of the tank best she can. As far as feeding and topping off. They had other fish in there. Some were aggressive, I got another employee to take the aggressors out. The silver dollars fins were all chewed up at one point. Glad we resolved that and it looks like all fins are back full. She's been putting in stress coat when adding water. That's been about it. I think key right now is, move tank to better location while getting parameters better. PH needs to go up and get coarse sponges into canister. Oh also a better feeding regiment. Some greens as suggested above and stuff other than tetra flakes...
  22. Well, I talked them into moving the tank into the lobby area of the restaurant and away from an exit door and a mini basketball hoop. It'll be good to get it moved. That won't be for a couple weeks at least though. So in the meantime gonna try and get them fed a little better and try to get the PH up as well. I'll work on the UGF after the move I think. I really appreciate everyone's help! I'm gonna get a shopping list together for everything I need to include some foam, a new airstone (for now),
  23. So I have an update here. Cleaned out the filter and gravel vacuumed half the tank while doing a near 50% water change. Cleaned two of the 4 decorations. Got a lot of pics and I'm up for suggestions on what can be better. I am thinking of adding a bunch more media into the canister. I know I need to take out the old carbon bags. Do I replace with more or just put media in those areas?
  24. I didn't even think about testing the tank and tap first and doing smaller water changes for a week. Makes perfect sense. Thanks for the advise everyone. I'm looking forward to helping out these poor fish.
  25. Ya, they are definitely being neglected. I'm gonna head in there and get a big water change done, add an airstone back in(used to have one), it has a canister filter that hasn't been touched in probably 2 years. I'm afraid of what I might find. Maybe I clean the canister put first. Wait a week and do a water change? Thoughts?
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