natalie265
Fish Crazy
very cool
Unbelievable Goldfish Plays Fetch Like A Dog!
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Great trained behavior star4! And thanks for all the nice comments. Regarding the green water, check this out: http
/www.goldfishconnection.com/articles/details.php?articleId=104&parentId=1 and this: http/www.goldfish-emergency.com/viewpage.php?page_id=41
/www.goldfishconnection.com/articles/details.php?articleId=104&parentId=1 and this: http/www.goldfish-emergency.com/viewpage.php?page_id=41
Knox213
"A Coup D'tat"
Wow.. I Have a common plec. in a 60 Litre
trying to rehome him.He hides all the time when he comes out for an algea waffer if he see's me he runs away as fast as possible.
Shame realy i like him
just i dont see much of him. How did you bond with your plec?
Yeah thats really nice- but whats not nice is the tank you are keeping him in. Would you like to live in it if you were a fish? No gravel, no plants , no company, and from what I can see no filter either! Its all very well teaching cool tricks but if you really care how about making that poor fishes life a pleasant one? 
Forestpisces
Fish Herder
i'm very unconvinced that the GA in the water has as many benefits as the sites you listed are saying. If it was that beneficial we would all be reccomending it and to my knowlage not one person has or will. A little algea is no issue even healthy, all my tanks have a little of the stuff in but at that extent i am hesitant to beleive it is a healthy enviroment. Also as you have proven by training your goldfish, they are an intelligent speciese who need constant stimulation and really do need plants (silk are best as real ones tend to get eaten and plastic ones can be harmfull to ornate speciese such as your ranchu) gravel or sand and plenty of things to explore. Bare bottomed tanks are easier to clean but goldies have a rooting habit, they love to root through substrate and will often suck on larger gravel pieces and spit them back out. And by the looks of it your tank maintinance regime could use work, regular water changes would not rid you of the GA but it would certainly dilute it which make me question how the fish is cared for. I don't mean to sound harsh, perhaps you could put us all at ease and let us in on your tank maintinance etc?
I am a regular on another forum where a commercial endler breeder hangs out. When he has endlers that just are not thriving and are looking like they are going downhill fast, he puts them into a pond with water like that as a tonic to help them recover. It seems to work out well.
By the middle of summer, the tub/pond that I put my goodeids into looks like that because of the sunlight that gets into the tub. At summer's end, those pond fish are some of the most spectacular looking goodeids that you can imagine. This year I mixed them in with some of their siblings that spent the summer indoors and you could easily tell which ones got to spend the summer at summer camp. Water like that is very healthy but not very pretty. For pretty, people strive for clear, sterile looking water. If I could get water like that in winter, I could raise daphnia for all of my fish to eat. It is the best possible food for daphnia.
By the middle of summer, the tub/pond that I put my goodeids into looks like that because of the sunlight that gets into the tub. At summer's end, those pond fish are some of the most spectacular looking goodeids that you can imagine. This year I mixed them in with some of their siblings that spent the summer indoors and you could easily tell which ones got to spend the summer at summer camp. Water like that is very healthy but not very pretty. For pretty, people strive for clear, sterile looking water. If I could get water like that in winter, I could raise daphnia for all of my fish to eat. It is the best possible food for daphnia.
Wow.. I Have a common plec. in a 60 Litre
He hides all the time when he comes out for an algea waffer if he see's me he runs away as fast as possible.
Shame realy i like him
How did you bond with your plec?
He was a rescue and very very sick, he hardly had the strength to swim away so I had to put food directly in his mouth and it built up from there. I have seen your ad, sadly I dont have the room at the moment, if you still have him when I set up my other 5ft tank (wont be for a while though) I could probably take him.
I did the outdoor tub routine with some platys for the past couple of years. The first year I didn't have a lot of floating plants or shade, the water turned so green you couldn't see the tips of your fingers a few inches down. The second year I loaded up with floating plants, the water was much clearer.
The first year I had countless fat healthy platys, the second year I had less than half the amount. While the water is not attractive to look at the fish seem to do better. Next year is less plants.
The first year I had countless fat healthy platys, the second year I had less than half the amount. While the water is not attractive to look at the fish seem to do better. Next year is less plants.
Amberleaf
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Whooa. Lots of green water there! 
Spectacular trick, btw. 
Spectacular trick, btw. Similar threads
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