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The silver dollars we learned after the fact that they are schooling fish. We made an oops on that. Yes they were aquired as a rehome...so we are trying to decide what to do with the silver dollars as weve read they get quite large. Worried it might be too .uch in tank once they grow

Hey all, I currently have some new fish in qt that I am planning to add to my main tank at somepoint. My question is what are your thoughts on how many at one time to add to main tank? I currently run a 55 gallon main tank with a turquoise severum, 2 gold gourami, 3 red eye tetra, 6 cory cats, 4...

Yea, the fluval or aqua clear ammonia remover bags. I put them with my filter. My stepdad always reccomended it after I had an issue years ago, so I have used them and thought it would remove the ammonia

Ok ill run down to my lfs and pick one up. I have learned about ammonia issues a long time ago, but since I have switched to the fluval filter with ammonia remover, I guess I thought my worries would be gone with high ammonia levels. I will deff pick it up. Thank you!!

I'm very surprised at the ram that is still in the main tanks behavior. The skinnier one in the hospital tank I think i may treat like you said, he just doesn't look happy or well. He lost the weight so quickly. Thats why i am so unsure as to what has happened.

I'm using a basic test kit. It doesn't have ammonia. Its a dip stick. Should I get an ammonia test kit?

The odd thing is since I have removed the skinnier ram to the quarantine tank, the other ram has been much more social, swimming with the other fish and coming to the glass when I approach. This is new behavior for him. Is it possible that they are stressing each other too much? Even in a 55...

I have tried tropical flakes, hikari algae wafers and hikari chiclids pellets and sinking pellets for bottom feeders. Parameters are Nitrate less than 20 Nitrite 0 Ph 7.0 Kh 40 Gh is 120, I have well water. I wouldn't think the hardness would affect them that greatly, but maybe im wrong?

Hi guys. I am new to posting on this forum. I have had various fish for years, differnt sized tanks and set ups and am stumped as to what to do to help my bolivian rams. I currently have a 55 gallon tank, cycled, water parameters correct. Temp okay. My stock is 2 gold gourami, 2 bolivian rams, 1...