Squeegee79

So....sort of. I purchase 13 roughly 1" Neon Dwarf Rainbows 7 days ago. After day 2, every morning when I turn the light on the males are all ready to go. I think the females are not big enough to be interested though. I haven't seen any actual eggs anyway.

Looks like it. What else is in the tank?

Unless the tank is way overstocked, they are being way overfed, or something like a dead fish is rotting in the tank, ammonia and nitrite levels should be 0 or very close to 0 at all times. Now, if you added a large number of fish to an established tank that could cause a spike, because there would not be enough bacteria to support the added bio load, but it would not take long for it to catch up.

Looks like algae to me. I had the same thing happen. 24 hours after I threw 2 baby bristle nose plecos in the tank it was all gone.

Depends on how many times per hour the tank water gets pushed through it, but shouldn't take too long. Have you determined the cause of the algae? With green water I find fixing the cause is usually more beneficial than treating the symptoms.

Nah, this won't be an issue. Your fish are constantly producing ammonia so there will always be some in the tank to be removed by the bacteria.

Personally I am in the boat of cycling with fish. I have never had an issue. You just have to be smart about how many fish you add and how much you are feeding.

Personally, I like to feed multiple smaller meals throughout the day. If you are feeding flake food, I would submerge a pinch of it under the water so that it sinks right away to make sure the cories get there fair share. The betta and endlers will pick from the water column fine. Typically I aim for all of the food to be gone in about 2 minutes. If there is still food floating around after 10 minutes, then it was probably too much. If you are prepping fish for breeding though, you might want to feed more to fatten them up, but that is another scenario.

So, I think there are two ways to look at the M/F ratio. I think adding 2 females may be less desirable if you have no desire to breed them. Adding 2 females could result in the males harassing them to the point of exhaustion. Generally the answer to this is to add 4+ females so it is spread around. The other way to go would be to get 2 more males. 4 males together would likely get along fine because they wouldn't have any females to fight over. Although if there is little to no cover in the tank this could also end badly, but if you have a few hiding places it should work out.

Edited quote for space I personally would not put any of these with small tetras, the tetras would almost certainly become dinner. I think you might be underestimating what will fit in a fishes mouth. 🙂 Perhaps a small school of Bosemani's rainbows or something? There is still a chance they pick off some neons, but it is much smaller than with the cichlid species.

Oh, just found it, nvm.

But I am really missing the "mark this forum as read" button.

I have worked at a few shops, and one of the things I learned was to be flexible when pricing things, especially fish. One of the owners I worked for had a hard fast rule that fish were priced at 3 times what he paid for them. Even if he was paying 12 cents for neons from over seas, or if he was paying 8 dollars for a baby arowana. (this was 20+ years ago) The point is, make your money where you can. If regular price in your store for neons is 1.99 and then you trans ship some in for 12 cents each, sell them for 1.49.....not 39 cents. And when you get that big specialty fish in that cost you $10, sell it for $19.99 so you can move it before it eats $30 worth of food.

I think all of the potential concerns stated so far are valid. I don't think that every 6 months is too much though, especially if it's a different illness. Using antibiotics always has the potential to make resistant strains if not everything is killed, same as humans/mammals. Using antibiotics will likely have an affect on beneficial bacteria and heavy overdosing could cause a crash. Because all of these things are risks though, is why a quarantine tank is recommended. If you are not adding sick fish to the main tank, then it shouldn't have to be treated. If the quarantine tank loses bio mass it's not a huge thing because you can always swap media from your main tank into it. My other concern would be...if you are medicating often enough to do damage, then what is going on with the tank that you need to medicate so often? Are you not using a quarantine tank and new fish are bringing in disease? I know that things can always slip through, but if you are taking precautions they should be minimal. If there is one fish in your tank that is constantly getting sick while others show no signs, it could be that it is just a genetically weak specimen. Difficult as it may be, it is often best to cull specimens like that, as you would never want to breed it, and it's going to have a very poor quality of life. Just some thoughts on the subject....

This thread keeps trapping me. I keep wanting to reply that Neon Dwarf Rainbows are great fish...but then I re-read "nano fish" in the OP. LOL

Just my .02, and I am not saying I am right, just what I would do. If there are still other fish in there, which it sounds like there are, I would just let the tank run as is for 2, 3, 4 weeks. This will allow it to remain cycled since you have a few fish in it still without disrupting them. Then, if everything is looking good at the 2 week mark, you can get the first group of neons and get them quarantined on some meds for a couple weeks before adding them to the larger tank. Like I said, just my opinion, not trying to say a hard reset would be wrong.

First, I agree that Peacocks are on the larger size for fish that I would put in a 55. It is not 100% a no go, but would require more frequent water changes etc. If you do go with peacocks, I would do the same type unless you get all males. Peacocks, and many mbuna for that matter, will crossbreed with fish that are similar. Generally speaking that just leads to an unhappy place. I also tend to prefer having larger groups of fewer different types of fish. Mbuna tend to be more comfortable in their surroundings if they have lots of friends. Maybe like 5-6 yellow labs and 5-6 Ice blue zebras or something.

@MDocAhh, yep. I just tested your link with something in my wish list and it takes me to mine. That pretty much has to be on the code side.

Hmm, yeah that doesn't work for me either. Just created This Wishlist Link if you want to try mine. Regarding Edge, are you still on the old version of Edge or did you upgrade to the new one? The new one is almost identical to chrome and is what I use. I am able to log in normally.

I just tested the wish list feature as well. I think some browser settings will prevent the "copy to clipboard" function so you may want to do a quick google search to see if that is happening.

Are there any other fish in the tank with it? It kind of looks like it has taken a beating from someone. Perhaps the ships you took out were keeping aggression in check. The above treatment should help out either way.

Looks like it might be eggs of some sort.

I don't really see any infection from what I can see in the pics. The dwarf gourami and the skirt tetra could definitely be picking at him though. Colu's salt recommendation should do the trick...may want to get him his own tank though as they likely won't stop picking the fins.

Yes, you should, although with only one frog in there it could take a while. (not suggesting you add more bio load) Also, are you medicating it at all? Some meds will mess with cycling.

Sounds like a fairly misinformed employee, although that is better than just selling you a bunch of stuff that would destroy each other.