Tony s

For a few days to a week or more they'd be fine. We do what we can, with what we have. Just keep them warm and fed and happy for a bit

Let me rephrase that. Get rid of whatever bacteria is in the tank. Keep your tank intact. By no means did I mean throw out your hardscape and plants

Yes. Long term a second heater would be best. Especially for discus. They'll stay more stable with 2 heaters. If you only have one and it fails that could cause serious stress. And discuss don't handle stress well.

I would add another. Just to be safe. And an inkbird controller to link them together. With the inkbird, a basic heater will work fine. So, you probably wouldn't notice the upgrade. That's a lot of hot water to rely on just one heater.

Yes, absolutely you can. When I crashed my tank, every fish went into a different tank. Some way too small for them, some way overstocked. They only stayed there until I was able to stabilize them and the tank. But I crashed mine treating the whole 75g with meds. You're corys had a disease. I'd be worried about that spreading to your wcmm's. Treatment of the disease may have killed your cycle. I don't really see anything wrong with what you have going on. Most algae is not toxic to fish, so that doesn't bother me. (excess bga can produce toxins) Your parameters were good until now. Maybe pull the corys out and instead of completely redoing the tank hit it with both forms of maracyn simultaneously. No fish. Get rid of whatever's in the tank. then a thorough cleaning. Then you're going to have to do a soft restart of your bacteria. I only lost the nitrite to nitrate bacteria. and I added used sponges to cycle it quickly again. My mistake was doing both forms maracyn with fish in the tank. Which Fritz says you can do. But that was way too much stress on the fish.

Well, sorry to hear that. It sounds like you care for your fish enough to know when they’re a bit neglected. Maybe we can offer a bit of advice to help you with managing your tank more efficiently? That way you could still enjoy having them.

yeah, me either. Iv'e heard the glue reacts better underwater. and it was fully running before I got the plants. I was hoping to sneak it in. But, maybe the fishing line is better

@TealStarlight I'm sure he's very stunning at that size. And a lot of fun to interact with 😁

I never knew they made glue. Now... can you glue with fish in the tank? I'm floating anubias for a couple of chunks of driftwood that are semi buried in gravel

yes

original super glue. reef glue. any cyano acrylic glue that dries super-fast. can even be used underwater. My only question, can you use it under water with fish present?

Mostly harmless. It's getting very difficult to keep them out, honestly. They don't do much. nibble on surfaces. Kind of annoying. Unsightly, if that bothers you

Sorry to hear they’ve been disappeared. I think you would have had to remove the community away from them. Don’t discus fry need the parents slime coat to feed from? But, yeah, now you have a proven pair! And potentially another breeding project to attempt. (Like any of us need more projects 🤣)

Everybody does. Including me. To help with water changes, you can get what’s called a Python system. Basically hooks directly to your sink. Turn the valve, it sucks water out. Turn it the other way and it fills the tank. Be careful to use the same temperature as the tank and always add dechlorinator if the water changes get easier using something like the python, everything gets more enjoyable I wouldn’t worry too much about changing cleaning the filters. As long as they collect the gunk they’re working fine. That’s where a lot of the beneficial bacteria live so a little gunk is fine. mine looks terrible all black and full of junk when I clean it. I usually do a quick rinse using tap water. Doing it quickly this way doesn’t kill much bacteria. If he doesn’t like colder water anymore, all of those tank mates will still work. He does have the potential to grow that large. But he may never get there. Cross your fingers. For the cold water thing. You might be able to get him back down there. But do it slowly. Reduce the heater over time. Sudden temperature changes can cause shock. If you can convince him he wants to live there, he becomes a bit cheaper. for the extra large cave, you can try Etsy or wayfair. Look under large aquarium cave. I saw a couple that would work. I think. Just be careful of the construction from there because you never know I’m so happy you’re having a lot of fun with him. We went from the fair fish directly into tropical fish. But I think I’m going to convince my daughter she wants to try goldfish again. Such big personalities. as you’re seeing with your guy, sometimes a playful pet is worth a lot. Kinda your own water puppy 😁

You have a lot of space available. The snails and shrimp don’t add a lot of bio load. But you still have to clean after them. It depends on what you want the star of your tank to be. Do you want it to be cherry barbs or mollies? I might do 6 to start with. More females than males. see how that works out and add from there after a while.

For a few other fish. Zebra danios and whitecloud mountain minnows can work. They’re small but very fast. They should be able to get away if the goldfish wants a snack.

That’s exactly how we started keeping fish. Only ours died that night. So we went out and got a couple of cheap bettas and tanks. Your fish is what they call a common goldfish. He has the potential to grow up to 14 inches. So you could need another tank for him eventually. Goldfish love to eat plants. Some plants they may not devour include annubias and bolbitis. Others that might grow faster than they can eat include duckweed. If you have the ability to hang plants into the tank, pothos vine works really well. Keep the roots wet and let the vines grow outside the tank, everywhere. for tank mates… the best tank mates are other goldfish. Not the fancy ones with the big tails. They’re too slow and awkward. You’ll want something that can keep up with yours. Possibly including comet, shubunkin, and black moors. A few different types of fish that can go with him include dojo loach, bristle nose plecos, possibly rosy barbs. You need something big enough that it doesn’t get eaten. And that can live in a cold goldfish tank. You do know your goldfish is very comfortable in cold temperatures? Room temp temperatures to 50 degrees. for the algae, yeah, that’s going to be a constant fight. The pothos vine will definitely help. The key is going to be keeping the amount of nitrates down below 20. And limiting the amount of light in the tank. To probably less than 8 hours a day. And if you have hair algae, well, the goldfish will probably eat it. Surface algae you might just have to manually scrub it.

Tiger barbs are a bit grumpy. Can be horrible fin nippers. Depending on what you keep them with. Very active. When kept in very large groups they can do very well. At least 15. An all barb tank is amazing.tons of color and activity. For more peaceful barbs you want cherry barbs, snakeskin barbs, odessa barbs. Black ruby barbs. Possibly melon barbs.

Well, he has every right to be ticked. He was made wrong. 😁 we have a rabbit the same way. He has perfectly aligned teeth. Rabbit teeth are not supposed to be lined up. They are supposed to have overbites. Oh we, we still take care of our pets the best we can. 😁

not at all. We're all learning here. Sometimes we mess up. Then we learn and we do better.

things like that make me completely paranoid. But reading and learning here I've found out that mr clean magic erasers work great. as long as they're unscented.

So, I've been wondering this for a while. How do you keep algae at bay in an unplanted or lightly planted tank. Would love at some point to keep things like oscars and severums. Which have been described as lawnmowers with fins. Or possibly even goldfish, which eat everything too.

So far you’re doing all you can do. Most of the time this hobby is fun, but then sometimes it’s really hard. But we learn how to handle things and what to watch out for. And then we make adjustments and do better. Good luck! Hopefully everyone pulls through!

Honestly, I’m surprised you can keep mollies with the shrimp. Platys would be smaller than mollies, but bigger than guppies. I don’t keep shrimp, but I do keep platys. My daughter wants the mollies. And knowing me, she’s probably going to get them. 😂

Listening to Cory talking about product design, that would not surprise me at all. Guy is meticulous