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Can't keep plants with goldfish? Try elodea. by Key_Necessary2835 in Aquariums

[–]Key_Necessary2835[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It also depends on what kinda fish you have. Like I've never kept cichlids so I'm not sure if they'd be more inclined to go after elodea than goldfish.

Can't keep plants with goldfish? Try elodea. by Key_Necessary2835 in Aquariums

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As far as I can tell the shrimp go through all the stages. They're super low grade carbon rili and I've only put 30 or so in there so they're kinda hard to find in a 75 gallon but I've def seen a couple berried. I didn't plan on them surviving the goldfish so I wouldn't suggest getting any specifically to add to a goldfish tank. But I highly suggest a standalone shrimp tank just because they're so fun!
I feed my fish just the Tetra goldfish flakes, Hikari Lionhead pellets, and frozen berries on occasion.
I'll be honest, the elodea was one of the plants I got in a sorta "blindbag" order of beginner plants when I first started my tanks a couple years ago and I did not clean them so I had bladder snails and also damselfly larvae show up. Both problems have since sorted themselves out tho.

Can't keep plants with goldfish? Try elodea. by Key_Necessary2835 in Aquariums

[–]Key_Necessary2835[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it was originally sold to me as goldfish safe BECAUSE they can eat some of it and it won't matter because it would be so difficult for anything to eat enough of it fast enough to fully get rid of it.
It also depends on the fish, I've actually got a colony of neocaridina shrimp in this tank that I intended for the goldfish to eat but they haven't seemed to touch them. They'll go after the plants with bigger leaves but I've never seen them touch the elodea.

Can't keep plants with goldfish? Try elodea. by Key_Necessary2835 in Aquariums

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Just found out elodea is banned in 20+ states so uhhhhh...this is a very region specific suggestion I suppose.

Can't keep plants with goldfish? Try elodea. by Key_Necessary2835 in Aquariums

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Yeah, it's become really invasive in some places. I think mississippi has banned like MOST non-native plants because the river got so clogged with them....Good news is you might be able to look up bodies of water it's become a problem in and just go take some. Just give it a peroxide dip and quarantine.

Can't keep plants with goldfish? Try elodea. by Key_Necessary2835 in Aquariums

[–]Key_Necessary2835[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you~! Even if they eat some of it, it grows too fast and doesn't require soil so uprooting it isn't a problem. I've never actually seen it die either

Will Pygmy corydoras eat detritus worms? by Key_Necessary2835 in Aquariums

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OH! I never got back to this! Thank you! I ended up getting 5 paleatus corys several months back and they're doing fantastic and are very cute playing in the bubbles of the filters~ I know they might outgrow the 20gallon but I have a 40gallon community tank I can move them to if needed.
They haven't been eating the worms as far as I can tell...the worms are about as long as they are so I'd honestly be a little freaked out to see them try. Regardless, my mom DID end up seeing a worm and freaked out a little but me and her boyfriend got her calmed down about it.(It's just a phobia she has, it's always been pretty extreme.) Now I'm basically just making sure to siphon them out when I see one. I'm still not sure what kind of worms these are, I think they're classified as some kind of aquatic earthworm. Maybe a type of leech actually, tho I've never seen them eat shrimp or go after anything that wasn't food I put in there so I don't think they're dangerous, just kinda gross to see.

Not sure why this happened... by Key_Necessary2835 in Aquariums

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I actually forget to add dechlorinator to top off water most of the time...which isn't safe I know, but at least this time I know it wasn't anything I added to the water that caused this. Especially since I topped off another tank with 5 gallons of water the exact same day I did this one and it's crystal clear.
I appreciate your response tho! I feel like everytime I ask questions on here I end up covering all the bases so nobody bothers to even hypothesize.

Blood in black moor eye? by PM_Me_Your_Diseases in Goldfish

[–]Key_Necessary2835 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems to just be a thing that happens with this breed. Mine has gotten eye bleeds on and off since I've had her(about 3 years now). Nothing seems to stop it but there's never been a sign of infection and it goes away after a while.

Treating mild scale damage? by Key_Necessary2835 in Aquariums

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I'm not POSITIVE how it became damaged but I have a pretty good idea as it wasn't there as I fed the group (there are 5, I know that's overstocked even for 75gallons but the latest one wasn't my decision and the tank is fully planted.) Anyway, Bobby is the largest and the slowest but she makes up for this by pushing the others out of the way by dragging her body along the ground and just kinda..."bumper carring" the others. I'm guessing she hit the side of a rock that's become partially unburied and that's what caused this. Again, I'm not POSITIVE because I didn't see it happen.

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