Silver Dollar Fish Care, Tank Mates, & Size of Aquarium
Tropical fishing 10 years ago 46,908 views
http://amzn.to/2ytLF51 - My favorite silver dollar fish food is these flakes. They are high quality. You will spend a couple more dollars.. but it's totally worth it. Here is a link: Omega One Flake Food: http://amzn.to/2ytLF51 Silver Dollar Fish are really popular in fish aquariums! There is a reason for that.. because they are awesome! Taking care of silver dollar fish is actually pretty easy. Basic tropical fish flakes for food and keeping the water in tropical temps! Watch the video for more info on caring for them. http://guppy-fish.com/silver-dollar-fish-care/ Come join our community. Here are some example threads: What r u using to bring ur ph down?? And why do u want it so low? What fish r u keeping? German blue rams, danios, rummy noses, neons, clown loaches, corys, bn plecs, barbs and.. yes... a goldfish (and he's doing fine!). I've looked up the required parameters for each of them, and decided about 6.8 would be ideal. Getting the temperature and ph right before putting the water in the tank would be a real pain! If you try to do it In tank your going to have huge issues with the fish. This is why it would have to be done before adding to the tank. FYI: 6.8 is not ideal for your goldfish, and it's likely to grow large enough to eat most everything in your tank except the clown loaches. Why not give him his own tank or tub? You have the perfect pH right out of the tap for him. OK, I'll look to rehome the goldfish. I'll eventually have to rehome the clown loaches, too, but that's a while away. I use a product called "ph down," it's a white powder, I don't remember who made it or what is in it. https://youtu.be/W5FceJKTiww So, for people with big tanks trying to get their water right before it goes in the tank... How do you do it? What's your workflow, equipment, process? How long does it take you? Ph down is a acid. Its a poor choice to use as it has zero buffer. It will rise again and then you have crashes that occur. The proper way would be with Ro and mix tap in to a % or reconstitute the RO using buffered additives For my reef tank I always make get ready the day before. I will add salt and small pump and mix that then mix any ferts I need and then I'll put a heater in and let sit all night with a heater and pump. My advice is get a small circ pump and spare heater and then mix your ph down and heat the water over night.My ph is whatever it is. I only worry about it when i need to use meds. I know its high (8.2) but all my fish dont seem to care. Seems odd that you are struggling to get the ph correct for the fish but are ignoring temp requirements. That goldfish is a cold water species and the rest are tropical. The fish adapt to ph levels because in nature different areas of the same body of water have different ph levels. I have tested some of my fishing lakes and find back coves have drastically different ph levels than areas near beaches. Fish from your LFS are usually raised in the local Ph and are not use to the natural Ph causing undo stress. Long live Silver Dollar Fish!
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and 2 will they just eat all my tetras ? and other recommendations of bigger fish that will keep with tetras ? cheers
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Well, the Dollars are no more..( I got rid of them )...and now, I have shoals of Neon and RummyNose Tetras, Tiger Barbs, Platys, Gouramis...etc all roaming the tank, unaccosted. My Pleco is over 9 inches long and the only large fish in the tank but he's not remotely interested in the little guys. Since I ditched the Silver Dollars almost 10 months ago, I've only lost one single Neon Tetra from a shoal of 13. So I don't believe in coincidences.
I HATED those Dollars.. not only were they picking on the little fish, they were astonishingly easily startled, ripping up plants and stirring up muck from the substrate. On a couple of occasions, I casually walked into the room, and they swam so fast into the tank wall that they knocked themselves out.
I live in a tropical country, with clean drinkable tap water, hopefully the water quality is decent for my silver dollars too, since it does tick some of the boxes for keeping the silver dollars healthy.
Please let me know what other things I should take note of because I've tried asking the aquarium owner but he wasn't helpful at all; giving vague answers such as "just feed them and change their water regularly and they'll be fine". So you can imagine how quite lost I am now.