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    Goldfish will eat nymphs, but they could eat your white cloud fry.
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    A platy can live alone, but will enjoy the company of other fish. I would recommend just getting several males. If you just want one fish, get a male because females and males will normally be shipped and stored together. If you get a female that has been in contact with males, it will most likely be pregnant.
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    I would recommend one with a barrel that spins. Any feeder over 20 dollars is good, but ones cheaper than that normally don't work.
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    I would get snails. Those would eat the hair algae.
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    Siamese algae eaters are generally peaceful fish and will get along fine with your guppies. It will not get along with the shrimp however and could eat them.
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    Okay. Just monitor the water quality and add more filtration if you need it.
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    Monitor the water quality and if the tank is cycled and you are doing water changes but the ammonia and nitrites are high, you should use more filtration. If this is not the case you should be fine. What fish do you have in that tank?
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    I have kept a bunch of livebearers, koi, goldfish, several gourami, a lot of corys, snails, shrimp, crayfish, and a bunch more that I don't remember. I have never kept any cichlids but I really want to. The most traumatic experience fish keeping is either when my snails had babies but ate them right in front of me(this was when I was in fourth grade. I didn't know they did that.) or when I put cherry shrimp that I paid 5 dollars each for with goldfish because I read somewhere that they go "great" with goldfish. My whole family was there when I released them from the net. The longest surviving one lived for 5 seconds after being released.
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    Hi @MaximusV When did you get the guppies? If you just got them, it could be stress. Have they been losing color? Are the guppies in breeder boxes? Being in a breeder box can often stress out fish. If not, they have probably dropped a lot more but the babies got eaten, sucked up by a filter, or are just hiding.
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    Hi @chickenfoot3552, In a 36 gallon bowfront, you could probably do a small school of 4-6 of each.
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    Red-eyed tetras will most likely pick on or eat the amanos.
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    For best results, just do a quarantine tank, but since you can't, I would recommend adding the meds every time. The quarantine tank doesn't need to be a full tank. I just use a plastic storage bin, which I keep under the tank with a light.
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    It looks like ich. There is no need to worry though because it is very easy to treat. Do 20-30 percent water changes daily, and weekly, give the fish salt baths. Ich is highly contagious, so if you choose to medicate the tank, medicate the hole tank. If you medicate(which most likely won't be necessary), I would recommend API All Cure or Melafix.
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    Hi Sharmon, I am so glad to hear that you are back into fishkeeping. In my experience, gravel has been easier to care for, but this all depends on what you have. If you have plants, sand will be the better option. Guppies, mollies, tetras, and danios are great fish to keep and are very colorful. They are also very hardy and easy to keep. A hang on the back filter will probably be more efficient than a sponge filter, but again, it all depends on what filter you have. If you are getting all males, you won't need to worry about fry getting sucked up, but a sponge filter will be cheaper. Have you heard of a python water changer? They make water changes really easy because it is a long hose that connects straight to a sink. It will both syphon and fill an aquarium, making it easy if you are unable to carry buckets.
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    First, what type of fish do you have in that tank? Also, have you noticed anything wrong with the fish, for example worms, loss of appetite, etc. You could add the 3 meds, but it will be better if you can identify exactly what disease it could have brought in and then treat for that.
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    Then I guess you should just do a 3D one. Just know that it can be expensive, especially if you have a big tank.
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    Mollies, platies, and guppies will not crossbreed, but I think it will be okay to add other livebearers. If they crossbreed, the hybrids will be sterile and the ones with defects will be swallowed by the parents. There is nothing wrong with this, it is just making sure that the gene will not spread.
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    I have never used 3D backgrounds, but from what I've heard, the cheapest will be to do it yourself. Most of the other ones will be pretty expensive. You could get just a 2D background that looks kind of 3D and add some driftwood and rocks in front of it. Whenever I do that, it ends up looking pretty real.
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    If it were fin rot, it doesn't look like it is very bad. Your betta will easily survive the next week, so you don't need to worry.
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    Sorry. I didn't see the most recent post that there are 11 of them.
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    I agree. This is a celestial pearl danio. Is that the only one that you have or do you have a school?
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    If that doesn't work, I guess you could try medicating the betta, but I have found that sometimes, water changes and salt baths work better. Keep me updated on how your betta does.
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    I have heard of different snails crossbreeding before, and I think it is common. I don't think there are any problems with this except that the hybrid babies won't be able to breed. The eggs should hatch in 2-4 weeks, in optimal conditions. If your snails bred and the eggs hatch, a lot of eggs will hatch. Of course a lot of them will die off, but if you want them to live, make sure to feed them calcium, as they are born with soft shell. So many snails in an aquarium may be unsightly, but if you are okay with this, I don't see any problems.
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    This once happened to my halfmoon betta. I am not an expert, so I am not sure if this is exactly the same thing, but it looks like it. I did a 30 percent water change every day and gave him salt baths every 3 days. After a couple of days, it started getting better and after two weeks, it was completely gone.
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    You should go bigger. Though it is more costly, there are a lot more fish you can now keep. Maintenance wise, you will need to do bigger water changes and scrub more algae, but because there is more water, it will be harder for the ammonia or nitrites to spike, because it is diluted.
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