Hannah Parker

Great job taking care of that poor carnival fish! A common goldfish would definitely eat most plants. I keep Anubias with my fancy goldfish pretty easily. I also added pothos and bamboo sticking out of the top of the tank for extra plant filtration. I think it's great that the tank came with an overkill filter! That is especially good for goldfish because they are so dirty. I have heard bristlenose plecos do best in tropical temperatures. I was wanting to keep one in my goldfish tank as well, but decided against it. I haven't found a good algae eater for a goldfish tank (besides hillstream loaches) yet!

Thank you for your advice! All parameters have been consistently fine, and his 2 other goldfish tankmates have been as well. One of them is a baby and has been thriving. I can’t figure out why it’s only him showing trauma 😞 His fins started looking tattered when he got sick; I believe the white clouds were nipping his fins while he was laying there for days. They have started to grow back slowly.

Hi everyone, I recently went through a bout of dropsy with one of my 3 goldfish. I’m not really sure what caused it, but I treated it for about 3 weeks with mixing Metroplex in the food, and cured it because I caught it early. My question today is, he has continued to change color drastically since he’s been sick. His behavior is perfectly back to normal, as is his appetite. But he keeps changing color more everyday. When I first got him, he was a very dull brown/brass color. Then he became the bright gold/orange that you see in the later pictures. But, since he’s been sick he had been becoming more brown everyday, with the splotches you see on his body and fins. Will this keep happening? Will he ever go back to normal? Thank you all for any advice. baby pic: current pics:

Hi guys! Been a while. So along with getting married, I got a promotion! I was hired on as a domestic relations paralegal at the law firm that I was a receptionist at, which means I got my own office too! So I was able to start a little office betta tank 🥰 He is a gorgeous little nemo who has really thrived in this tank. He's just in there with a mystery snail and is loving life, and is very popular with my coworkers!!

Well, we did it! My husband and I tied the knot on November 5th at Hocking Hills State Park in Ohio. We had only 25 people there, and everything was perfect. I want to sincerely thank everyone again for the advice and guidance provided when I first made this post 💗 It was exactly what we wanted, and we were even lucky enough to have an 80 degree day in November on the day of our ceremony. Everyone we wanted to be there made it, even my husband's grandparents and family from Virginia. It was in the woods, with windchimes ringing in the background. After the ceremony, we went to a Hibachi restaurant, and most of us had never been to a Hibachi restaurant before, and we had a blast and it was some of the best food I've ever had! My husband and I were back in our Airbnb together by 7:30pm that night, and got to enjoy the rest of our day privately, sharing a small cake I got for just us and enjoying the hot tub at the Airbnb. It was a perfect day, and I wouldn't have changed anything. Thank you all again!

Soooo many options! Since you are leaning towards guppies, you could just do a big ol' community tank with lots of different fun species. My mismatched community tank is my favorite tank. As an example, I have 3 synodontis petricola catfish, 4 golden zebra loaches, 5 highfin platies, 5 guppies, and a male betta in it. With the loaches and the livebearers it makes for an extremely active tank and is loads of fun. You could do livebearers and maybe have a school of some pretty tetras in that tank, and you have so many bottom-feeder schooling options. Really can't go wrong with a lot of combinations. Other good community centerpiece fish would be german blue or bolivian rams, or dwarf gouramis.

I loved my chilis, they're gorgeous and very cute. Fair warning, they don't swim around a ton and just kind of hang out a lot of the times, which actually does make them perfect for a small tank without a lot of swimming room 🙂

This question is such good timing lol, I just had one last night. Does anyone else ever have crazy detailed and real-feeling dreams that you can't wake up from because you think it's actually happening?? Every once and a while I do and get trapped in them 🤣 Last night (really this morning since I was semi-conscious) I dreamed about watching my two fish tanks, and then for some reason they were suddenly combined (small tropical community with a betta fish and big fancy goldfish suddenly in the same tank, not good!!!) Then all of sudden this huge pink fish materialized in the back of the tank and mauled my poor betta 😭 The huge fish looked like something from the ocean, like a flowerhorn mixed with a pacu. But my betta was still alive see, so I was going to put him in another tank. Apparently in my dream I had a fish room with beautiful planted tanks. I should've figured out it was a dream at this point LOL. So I was looking for a suitable tank to move him in, but all these tanks had super weird stocking. One had so many inch-long golden dojo loach babies that they covered the entire substrate. Another was a perfectly stocked tropical community, but already had another male betta occupying it. Another one had some sort of big, injured cichlid in it. So I didn't know where to put my poor betta. And then I noticed another tank with a turtle in the bottom of it, and a parakeet in the top part. And I was like "wtf is this". And then I started looking around the room and there were more cages with other kinds of animals in them, like cats and dogs. One was a chubby, old Yorkie. I took him out of his cage with the intention of doing something, but never figured out what it was once I got to the backyard. Things quickly got out of hand and spiraled into more of a nightmare, with a barbeque turning into an explosion turning into an apocalypse and being separated from my fiancé!!! 💔😥 Dream are wild lol

I have a community tank with a betta and live bearers, guppies included. My betta definitely helps with the population, but he doesn't get them all. He gets most though so it helps.

I would definitely recommend against this, as someone who has kept both species and observed them being kept in the same tank at a local fish store. They were in a 20 gallon at the pet store and all the puffers trapped the betta in one cave and would attack him whenever he strayed out of the cave. Even with it being a female betta, I think she would be too slow to get away from them and the tank would be too small, she would be constantly stressed. The only way I would try this out would be in a 40gallon tank or larger. 10 gallons would be way too small for this experiment in my opinion.

I believe my chubby girl has gotten some more coloration on her, with more spots and some more orange on top. I think my other 2 juveniles are growing as well 🙂

I'm sorry to hear about this situation you're going through; your local fish store rejecting them must be incredibly frustrating. Only because you asked, I will say that I think in this situation euthanizing them would be wrong without trying to take them to your local fish store one more time. They are living beings that you allowed to be created, and in my opinion you owe it to them to try and get the store to take them off of your hands by possibly using some of the methods mentioned above even if they are out of your comfort zone. I can tell you as someone that volunteers at an animal shelter, even when we are full, if someone finds a kitten during kitten season and says they will "un-alive" it if we don't take it, we have no choice but to take it. I would go to the store in person with the fry, and tell them you are leaving for Italy in a week and if they don't take them you will have no choice but to euthanize them. I personally hate "confrontation" as well, but I think you should try and give it one more go, however uncomfortable it may be. I also recommend against euthanasia for your well-being as well, as I would hate for you to be left with regrets as a fishkeeper. There are conflicting opinions on the humanity and painlessness of the freezing method, and I have always used clove oil and it is not easy to do. It takes precise measurement to have the fish fall asleep first (if you use too much it will cause them to have a seizure) and if the fish is still active they fight the sedation and it is emotionally taxing to complete. With clove oil you have to go slow and it can take up to 30 minutes to complete. It would also be very hard to do it correctly for such small fish. It's really easy to use too much clove oil. I hope everyone's opinion helps you come to a decision you are happy with, and I wish you the best in Italy!

That is a beautiful fish. I only ever had hasbrosus pygmies, but I love the way these guys look and they are definitely on my list now!!

Since it's a smaller tank I think the number will depend on how often you want to do water changes. You could breed them in there and have it very full like they do at the stores, with big weekly water changes, or you could have around 10 males-only and keep it at that. I think you could do up to 10 endlers male-only with a group of pandas if you did weekly water changes, but I would agree that pygmy corys would be better suited for that size tank. Can't wait to see what you decide to do!