[Howdy from Southeast Texas]

1 hour ago, James Black said:

welcome to the forum!! can you sned pics of your koi angelfish?

 

I'm trying, but it's not working.  I clicked on the "Add Files" button, selected a picture, and it says it's uploading, but then nothing happens.

Edit:  I just tried again, but I noticed the file is 54.4 MB, and it looks like that's slightly larger then the max allowed.  I'm afraid my rudimentary tech skills aren't up to the task of making it smaller.

[Has my Goldfish "frozen" to death?]

I keep common goldfish outside in cattle troughs to control algae and mosquito larvae, and while it isn't common in my part of the world, it occasionally gets cold enough for a layer of ice to form on top, and the goldfish survive it just fine.  With that bring said, I suspect the temperature change your fish went through was just too abrupt.

[55 Gallon Stocking]

I'd be cautious about two angels.  I haven't tried to keep a pair, but everything I've seen and read about them says that if they aren't mixed sexes, and pair off, there's a good chance they'll fight when they get older, so that one of them will wind up bullied or dead.

I'm not saying it can't work, or not to do it, but if you do I'd suggest keeping a close eye on them, and have a plan for if you need to separate them.  If your tank has a heavily planted area so there's hiding places that may help.

[What Kind of Corydora??]

Trilineatus corys (usually sold as Julii, even though they aren't) are one of my favorites, and readily available at most places.

[High PH water issues]

Can you define "VERY High PH"?  My pH is 8.2, and I have a wide variety of plants and fish thriving in it.  As mentioned above, most fish will do better with stable pH, even if it's outside their ideal range, than they will with it going up and down while the fish keeper chases the "perfect" pH.

[Corydora food?]

Mine like the Hikari Sinking Wafers and Xtreme Cat Scrapers.  I don't feed algae wafers often since it's my understanding that while corys are herbivores, they're healthier with a diet leaning more toward animal protein instead of plant material.

[What are YOUR experiences on selling fish to your LFS?]

I reached out to a "local" (about an hour from me) aquarium store by email a few weeks ago asking him about shrimp, and since it had occurred to me that I never see pearl weed or guppy grass for sale I mentioned I had some of it also.  He only wanted to pay $0.60 store credit for the shrimp, which I declined because I've been selling my culls online for more than that.  However, he said he'd give me $2.00 each store credit for twenty portions of guppy grass, which I had packaged in clear 12 ounce food containers, with printed labels.

He wasn't there when I delivered the plants, but I dropped them off, along with a few similar packages of guppy grass (which he hadn't asked for).  About two days later I got an email from the owner thanking me for the samples, and asking for another twenty of each.  When I made that delivery he still wasn't there, but the young lady working there said my plants had been selling really well, and they had even sold some the same day I delivered the first batch.  At $8.99 he's making a pretty good profit, but I'm happy with the $2.00 each I'm getting.

[Dwarf Gouramis in community tank?]

Hello,

I recently bumped up the pearl gouramis in my 40 gallon breeder to eight.  I had a fairly large male, and added another small male and six small females (I hope; it's hard to tell when they're that small).  It's only been a couple weeks, but I'm really liking them and it seems to be go well.  The tank is heavily planted, so there's plenty of hiding places in case of any aggression, but I haven't noticed any so far, and it's not unusual to see all eight at the front of the tank hanging out, even when it's not feeding time.

Anyway, sorry for the novel, but I wanted to give you another option, and I'm a big fan of pearl gourami.  They're less likely to be aggressive than the dwarfs, and less prone to health problems, and I think are just as attractive, especially when they've gotten comfortable in a tank and matured a little.

[Howdy from Southeast Texas]

Hello,

I just joined this forum, and am looking forward to being on it.  I've been keeping fish for about 1-1/2 years, and currently have 6 tanks running.  I stock heavier than most people would recommend, but I keep up with my water changes and general maintenance, and the inhabitants (plant and animal) are thriving in all of them.  They're all anywhere from moderately to heavily planted, which helps them handle the stocking levels.

I have a 65 gallon with a koi angelfish, a pair of super red bristle nose plecos, and schools of Lake Kutubu rainbowfish, lemon tetras, black neon tetras, and panda corys.  My 40 gallon breeder tank has eight pearl gouramis, and schools of serpae tetras, pristella tetras, and corydorus trilineatus.

My newest is a 20 long with schools of sparkling gouramis, kubotai rasboras, dwarf emerald rasboras, celestial pearl danios, and corydorus pygmaeus.  If I was doing it again I'd probably skip both the rasboras, but it is what it is.

I have a 10-gallon tank with red neocaridina shrimp, along with a few fry that apparently came over as eggs when I moved some guppy grass from the 20 long into the tank.  They're still too small to identify, but I'm hoping they're celestial pearl danios, or at least not hybrids with them and the emerald rasboras, since after stocking the tank I was told they can cross-breed.  Then I have one 5.5 with dark blue neocaridinas, and another one with cull shrimp.