i'm so puzzled. one of the larger fishies went missing. i know this is perfectly normal that this happens every once in a while, what i don't get is where she's gone. i looked through the whole aquarium without actually moving stuff around, and she's not in any of the caves or bushes. The fishie is a couple of inches long and half as wide, so it would be impossible to miss. there's no foul stench anywhere, which is quite normal if a fish dies. maybe it's too soon yet. it sucks a little, but more than that, it's weird.

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happy thoughts everyone.

Somebody ate her ass.

pz

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SicC wasn't loved enough as a child.

I'm probably going to get an aquarium as well when I'm moving next week.

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This post and any/all of its contents does by no mean or form encourage the narcotic inhalation of goldfish.

Sure I was, my parents had fish and they would cannibalize one another. It was fantastic.

Pz

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We had an aquarium (tropical) with a lot of guppy fish in it when I was young. Such an amazing system. Where most fish just dump their sperm and eggs in the water and have them figure it out, yet the guppies go out of their way to do things right. The female lays around 30 to 80 eggs I think, all of them hatch inside her body. She actually gives birth to live young. Result, a nearly perfect survival rate.

Then the mother eats her young. lmao.

I remember it was very educational.

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This post and any/all of its contents does by no mean or form encourage the narcotic inhalation of goldfish.

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if the aquarium is laid out right, the young will be able to hide and several should make it. but for breeding you actually have to take the young'ins in another tank after birth.

i expect a high death rate in my aquarium in the coming weeks. i put too many fish in too soon. i just feel that they're gonna die. i've added bacterias to try and prevent it but i'm so scurred right now. the missing fish, none of the other fish are big enough to eat her. i'm gonna re-do the whole aquarium though, i have some new ideas.

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happy thoughts everyone.

You would be surprised, but you know everything.

pz

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With the right filteration, algea eaters and magnet cleaners - it's not that bad. It's more of a hassle to carry giant jugs of the water you need. Corals in saltwater is where it's at.

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my growing passion for the South Seas of the great Pacific has convinced me that I will, someday, live on a deserted island - fully independent and self sufficient

i don't.

and in fact, you must have been right. i completely re-did the whole aquarium interior. removed the gravel and replaced it with sand, replanted the plants, removed all the rocks and used roots instead. i never found that fish. another fish also went missing.

now here's the thing. judging by the size of the fish that went missing first, and the size of the eel, to me it seems like a mathematical impossibility that the eel ate the fish. it probably ate the siamese algae eater, but the gourami like i said was a lot bigger. no matter, they're gone now. i also got rid of the eels. i'm gonna be buying smaller, more friendly eels called khulii, a few more gouramis, a few more glowlight tetras, and in time i'll be getting freshwater shrimps and apple snails. snails and shrimp add a lot of life to the aquarium.

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happy thoughts everyone.

new pic. grumsy water, better pic will come later tonight.

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happy thoughts everyone.