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  1. Sorry to hear that mate, losing a fish is always tough. You gave her the best chance she could have had and that's the best you can do! Best of luck with your fish in the future.
  2. Hope things have improved for your fish! Mine is still doing well thankfully.
  3. Hope your angelfish is doing better friend!
  4. Good luck to your angelfish as well!
  5. Did a water change last night(I was overdue) and also let the angel out. She's alright so far, she scrapped a little with the other angels and postures with the severum a bit but the tank has been relatively peaceful. Will take pics later when the lights come on.
  6. Definitely! She's been upright for the last few days, I think if she's still this good this weekend I will release her from the cage when I have a few hours to stay near the tank so I can monitor and ensure she doesn't pick any fights with the severum.
  7. Thank you for asking. Early on I made the decision not to give up as long as she kept trying to right herself. If she ever stopped and started spending all her time floating, I'd give up. It has been heartbreaking, as you said, but as of yesterday - around a month since the incident - she has made a huge breakthrough. She still is unstable and had to spend a lot of effort to do it, but she spends much of her time upright now. She is an aggressive fish and there are a lot of other angels plus the severum in the tank, so I'm not letting her out yet. But I think she will eventually make a full recovery.
  8. Had a big moment yesterday: for a brief few seconds, the angel was swimming right way up while eating. She's still in that mesh net, for nine days now. I drop a few flakes into the net at the same time that I feed the rest of the tank, and the sides of the net have grown some algae and filtered some detritus out of the water, which the angel will pick at between meals. She's swimming underwater almost all the time now, no more floating at the top. She spends most of her time upside down or sideways, but she's moving and interacting with the environment. To me this implies she isn't in great pain or much danger of dying, but still doesn't have full control over her air bladder. Today she seems to be doing even better. She is still upside down but with her head pointing mostly down rather than ahead now. She is constantly trying to turn over by bending sideways but it seems like that's tougher for her to do. Every so often she'll try to turn over by rolling forward instead of to the side, and then she will actually manage to hold that position for a few seconds. But then she'll flip over her side as she loses control. She's improving, very very slowly, but still improving. If she ever stops improving I will have to consider her quality of life in this state and whether there's anything I can do for her, but as long as she keeps improving I'm holding out hope that I'll be able to release her from the mesh cage eventually.
  9. Update: I'm glad I didn't decide to euthanize the angelfish. She still can't swim right, and spends much of her time at the surface on her side. However, she actively swims now, and can get herself underwater. She either swims on her side or upside down - she doesn't seem to be able to right herself yet - but she's swimming around, and the other day when I fed the rest of the tank I saw that she kept picking at the detritus stuck on the outside of her mesh cage, so I gave her some flakes and she happily ate them. I've never seen a fish recover from this sort of swim bladder injury, but I also haven't seen one make it this far after suffering one. So I'm not gonna give up on her just yet.
  10. Fish still floating at the top corner of the mesh divider, on her side now. She still flaps her fins when I go by but she isn't managing to get herself underwater anymore - just floating at the top. Until now she was holding herself flat with the surface, but now her top half is drooping down - worried she is getting weaker 😞 I am almost certain this was due to an injury she sustained after picking on the severum. I watched her do it dozens of times over the last week. Quite a bummer 😞
  11. Update: did a water change last night. I don't have a quarantine system available right now, but the injured fish is in a mesh net attached to the side of the tank, so she's isolated. She's still alive and tries to swim when I come by the tank, but she's stuck floating at the very top 😞 not sure how much I can really do for her other than wait, at this point...
  12. Nitrite around .5 Nitrate around 65 Ammonia 0 Ph 7 Hardness is very high, higher than my crappy test tests for, but it's always been like that- city water I imagine nitrates are high because I've been fertilizing a lot lately. It was supposed to be water change day today but I'm not sure if I should put that on hold or not
  13. Picture of my poor angel....
  14. So the Terror of my Tank, my female koi angelfish, is injured. She's ruled the tank for a long time but I recently replaced the severum I'd lost about a year and a half ago. So far they were getting along well enough- she'd chase the severum like she would the other angels, but he'd turn around and scare her off. Well, today I looked at my tank and found the koi angel swimming upside down at the bottom. She must have injured her swim bladder, either the severum fought back or she spooked from him turning at her and hurt herself. I've got her in a net box at the top of the tank, separated from other fish. She's still actively swimming but can't flip herself over. What should I do to maximize her chances of healing from this?
  15. At the size they were at when I bought them (and at the coloration they displayed in the store) it wasn't really possible to sex them yet. I figured this was a possibility. With the amount of foliage in the tank and the number of much larger tank mates, I think any breeding aggression should be sufficiently diffused. The sense I got was that if I do have two males and a female, the two males are currently both competing for her attention. Once one of them wins out, I hope things will calm down (much like how my angels have a dominant pair, a second pair, and a lone fish)
  16. Mr Snowflake hid for a full 12 days before I finally spotted him. I came back to the tank a few hours after lights out and turned them back on to watch it for a bit, as I had a phone call to make. I also saw two of my flag acaras fighting. They're very brightly colored, all three of them, though it's that iridescent color that's hard to capture on camera. Two have longer, flowier fins, so I'm thinking I might have two males and a female. There's plenty of sight breaks and hiding spots in the tank, so hopefully they sort that out soon. Until now, they've actually all stuck together, for the most part, but I DID do a water change yesterday. Maybe a pair is forming.
  17. Hey guys. I've planted root tabs, I've been dosing with ferts every couple days, and my plants don't look fantastic. Any suggestions on how to best care for them from someone who knows plants better than I?
  18. After a couple more days of medicating I don't see any more Ich. Did a small water change last night, buried some root tabs, and medicated again. Will probably medicate one last time tonight and do a water change sometime this weekend. All the fish are looking good so far, except the snowball who doesn't let me do much "looking" lol. Hopefully I'll catch a glimpse of him soon.
  19. Fed some flakes earlier. All the new fish came out to eat (minus the pleco of course), including all 4 keyholes at once! There was no sign or ich on them. The little dots on the blue angel were still there. I will dose again later today after a water change.
  20. Well, this is why we usually quarantine our new fish. Earlier today I noticed some small white spots on the tail of the blue angel, and made a note to check back on them. And indeed, when I just checked on the tank, there were more dots. And one of the keyholes was also covered with them, on his head and front. Almost definitely ich. Typical! And now I have to medicate the whole tank. Again, that's why quarantine is good! I was pretty hesitant to medicate during my last run-in with ich, especially due to my snails, but all of them made it through last time, so I'm medicating. The earlier I start the less severe this outbreak will get.
  21. So I was pretty determined to confirm that all of the keyholes were ok. I went through the whole tank looking for them, from the sides and from above as well as the front. One was easy to recognize - the one with the white eye. He is a actually by far the most active. I saw at least one other active keyhole, but more than that I couldn't confirm, until I spotted two of them at once - both were dark, on the ground, and moping. One was at least actively moving his fins. The other wasn't moving at all. I got a bit nervous so I decided to feed. I figured that might shake them up. I still want to feed frozen foods later today but for now I stuck with flakes, pellets, and wafers. And oh boy, did that wake the keyholes up! All four (and the other new fish) ate voraciously. I fed the usual amount, then added more food because that was gone in seconds. I hope the corydora got enough. The tetras ignore anything that hits the ground, but the keyholes are obsessed with the algae wafers. Eta: still no sign of Mr snowflake pleco, but that's par for the course. I'll see if I can surprise him at night. Maybe the reason I spotted Rubbernose is that Snowflake took his old spot?
  22. So I was pretty determined to confirm that all of the keyholes were ok. I went through the whole tank looking for them, from the sides and from above as well as the front. One was easy to recognize - the one with the white eye. He is a actually by far the most active. I saw at least one other active keyhole, but more than that I couldn't confirm, until I spotted two of them at once - both were dark, on the ground, and moping. One was at least actively moving his fins. The other wasn't moving at all. I got a bit nervous so I decided to feed. I figured that might shake them up. I still want to feed frozen foods later today but for now I stuck with flakes, pellets, and wafers. And oh boy, did that wake the keyholes up! All four (and the other new fish) ate voraciously. I fed the usual amount, then added more food because that was gone in seconds. I hope the corydora got enough. The tetras ignore anything that hits the ground, but the keyholes are obsessed with the algae wafers.
  23. One more image - a rare sighting - ignore the cory, in the very back you can just make out a rubbernose pleco.
  24. I'm glad you (and I hope others) are cool with the longer form posts. It's what really drew me to this forum in the first place. I can ramble about fish to my heart's content, haha. Yeah, there's a lot that's got me excited about the tank. Part of it is the severum of course. Part of it is that it feels like a real slice of a South American River again, with the dwarf cichlids and the corydoras. I realize I haven't really sat and watched it like this in a long time. Speaking of which, I just did some watching. The Severum greeted me - he's not shy at all, but the store he came from was very high quality and the owner had been doing this for 35 years. So that doesn't surprise me. I'll be feeding him later today - breaking out the frozen foods in case anyone is a little food shy in the new tank. Corys are hanging out in the plant cover together. Old and new. I'm excited for when they're all full grown... There's the keyhole with the white eye. I'm not sure how worried I should be yet. Though I did have a ram who was blind in one eye and lived a very long time. The keyholes dont stick very closely together, and they're pretty shy, so I haven't seen all 4 at once yet, which I always like to do every so often. Maybe they'll come our when I'm feeding. The flag acaras on the other hand are out a little more, and they like to hang out together. I've seen all 3 a few times. I know they're too tiny to reliably sex, but it seems like one of them has much longer fins than the other two. Could I have a male and two females? That's almost too ideal to hope for. I'd love to establish colonies for either fish in this tank. Anyone have any experience with establishing dwarf cichlids colonies in a community tank, or are there any threads about the topic on this forum?
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