Recent content by Fish__Fanatic

Let me guess: you saw it'd be the tank of the year, you decide to enter totm. Haha I hope you win. I've read threw this entire thread the past two nights. You have a beautiful tank, and stunning fish. Good luck!

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When you do a water change and the sand makes the water cloudy do you let it settle or do you run the filter? If you run it, what kind of filtration is it?

Glad you got back into the hobby! It is considered better to to weekly, small water changes now. What kind of fish did you keep 15 years ago? I'm curious to see if you went with what you knew or just tried someone different. Welcome to the forum!

Once the Bala's and the loaches have been rehomed... Thinking of adding to the Neons, maybe having 16 in total. After that im not too sure! Sounds like a great idea! The current neons looked great; building up a bigger school would be wonderful!

Beautiful tank so far. I'd love to see and update! Hopefully with more plants. Any ideas on further stocking the tank?

Beautiful fish!

With all that bad luck it's about time for it to turn around. Let us know what happens!

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Seems your problem was related to temperature. Random deaths of healthy looking fish is quite odd, but I'm glad things are looking up now. During your water changes make sure the temp of the new water is close to the temp of the water in your tank. Great tank!

Current size it may look fine. However, honey gourami will grow to 4"-5" and the five banded 2"-3". If all the fish grow to their full size it will be overstocked. So eventually you'd want to change it around, or get a bigger tank.

If he's still a little bloated do a pellet every 2 days to see if that calms it down a bit more. Fish, like humans have different metabolisms. As for the mosquitos and jumping that would be amazing to see, but it's probably not good for him to hit the lid.