Goldfish Nut: July 2006

Pictures

High Fin Pleco

I got myself a pleco today. (Ill try to get a picture before I release him into the tank and post it later today.) At some point Ill have to trade him in or move the cory cats. But maybe Ill luck out and he well not make the average 12 inches they can get. I do have room in my 10g for the cories if I do that.
Hopefully the Pleco well be able to eat all the algea on the rocks. He is a nice looking fish so I look forward to seeing him grow. He/she is only about 2 inches now.
I also picked up a red cap goldfish. It is also very tiny. The pet shop was having a hug sale. Some stuff was marked down 70percent and I just could not resist this cute tiny goldfish. I may have a couple picktures of him later today too.

Pictures of 75g

Before it turned ugly.

My parrots are normal

Ok so now I know all that behavior was normal. I hate it. Fish tanks are suppose to be relaxing. At least for me anyway but this is not. I did the research and knew they did fight some but this is not some this is a lot and no fun. And to top it off all my gravel is turning green. I don't mind green on the sides or on the pots but this gravel thing makes it look so dirty. I take out my plants to clean them ever other week but no clue what to do about my gravel other then take it out and go bare bottom like I have on my goldfish tank. But I from what I have read thats not a good idea for parrot fish. Grrrrrr

Parrot Tank

All is not well in my tank. Yesterday Sonny was picking on Star. Just chasing him and he not even fighting back. Today Star is picking on Sonny. Now Im starting to wonder if this is normal behavior. I'm just not use to all this discord in my tank. I tend to lean towards goldfish behavior. I like a peacefull tank. But now I have them and just can't seem to get myself to part with them.
My husband thinks I should take them both up to the lfs and just keep the two white parrot fish. Not so sure they wont do the same things though when they get older.
Speaking of my goldfish. The orange/red fantail that had the single tail passed on yesterday. I think maybe he was deformed inside as well as outside cause there was no signs of illness. But I did notice he was not growing as much as the other. Poor guy at least he had a great home for his short life.

Parrot fish at it again

lol These guys think they can make babies. They have laid eggs for me three times now. The orange one (Sonny) is so protective of those useless eggs. I did my normal Saturday water change and had to "replant" some of the silk plants. So I had my hands in the tank and got attacked. Scared me to death. But I got a good laugh out of it.
My two white parrot fish are still not making friends with anyone. The tank seems to be divided. The larger of the white parrots stays on the right. The smaller one stays on the left and the "pair" of Blood Parrots say in the middle with the pot they like to lay eggs in. As long as this seems to work for them Ill not worry about it.
Im going to try and get some new pictures tonight. Think I am starting to use pictures I have already post up here.

Pictures of 75g

This is the latest picture of my tank. I have four parrot fish in here but only two pal around together. The two white ones seem to each do their own thing. But so far not real fights.
I got "attacked" by Sunny my larger mostly orange parrot fish. I didn't hurt but I wasn't expecting it and jumped a mile high. Boy did I feel silly. hehe

Redid my 5g planted tank

While it was doing ok I felt if I did the soil thing like talked about in Diana Walstad book. I have some more plants on order cause most of the plants in there are slow growers. If all goes well in Dec Ill get a nice light for my 20g and set it up the same way in my living room next to my goldfish tank.

Water test day

Did all my test and everything is perfect. Moved one of my fantail goldfish yesterday cause he was pushing the other fish. But moved him back cause he was sitting like a lump in the "QT" tank all by himself. Been keeping an eye on him but so far he is not pushing yet.
I am a little concerned about my parrots too. I have four cause if you just have three you could have an odd man out problem. But even with four seems I have an odd man out. lol The smaller of the two white parrot fish is always on one side of the tank by himself except at feeding time. He is also not growing like the rest. Wonder if he needs to go in the "QT" tank so he can get more food and grow. But worried if I do that when the time comes to put him back they might start going after him. Might be best to let it play out.

The new fish is still alive

He is still alive and active. I also named him Ziggy. I really should name the others after all they should be around for years.

Pet shops are bad hehe

Went to pick up dog food at my fave pet shop and what did I see. This very pretty white fantail. Im a sucker for fantails and even more so for solid white goldfish. Just hope s/he stays white.

Pictures of Goldfish

Here are some pictures I did last night. And since I am sure you love pictures as much as I do I thought I would post a couple of them here.

Movie link

Maybe if I did this right. I still cant figure out where to or how to have a movie of my fish up at all times.
Parrot Fish

Not a lot of changes

I did buy a couple large rainbows to add to my lonely rainbow fish. That has me up to three. Ill add more in a couple weeks. The first picture picture is of one of my parrot fish. They have almost doubles in size since I got them home. Still very small compaired to my Red Parrot Fish.

The second picture is of my Red parrot fish. Still

need to get some color and now the "black" one (Star) seems to of gotten brain damage from the tank over heating while I was on vacation. That is why he is sideways. He swims fine but any time I catch him sitting in one spot he is sideways like in this picture.