Crazy that I happened to check out the forums here and saw this thread reanimated after months of inactivity haha! It's always weird to see unusual combinations work isnt it? All your previous experience and logic tells you it shouldn't work but it's right there, it's undeniable, chichlids hanging out with guppies or pea puffers chilling with shrimp. It's a bizarre feeling. Since I last posted in this thread, I've actually gotten some new fish, some new favourites :)



These guys are Albino Glowlight Tetras, and the picture really doesnt do them justice. It's incredilbe to be able to look at them and see their innards, it really puts into perspective the wonders of life. It's really quite humbling.

Oh yeah, that sucks, not having that many choices in your fish. It's not really an issue for me since I live in Hong Kong but for some of my Amino friends over in the states its a pretty big annoyance. But rasboras are definitely super pretty! Also, i've heard that PH isn't too important for fish, and that a consistent PH is far better than a specific one. But in this hobby you never know whats definitely true, its all anecdotal isnt it :). Good luck with the new additions, i'd love to see some pictures when they're settled in and acclimated.

@Christovski And that is fine with me XD my danios are already breeding...I found a fish store recently that actually sells pretty much everything I've decided I eventually wanted...including a school of these little guys. i hope to see them school iwth the other two cories in there. I have no idea why the picture flipped whoops.



Incoming picture time so I can show you guys how my tanks are looking!



This is my "mansion" as my sister likes to call it for my single baby girl Ariel. She HAD shrimp in her tank...turns out she really likes shrimp. She's behind my computer since its always on (I don't have the fan directly on the tank) so her water is a few degrees higher than everyone else...everyone else is in the 77-80 degree range and hers is 84-86 degrees. Because I can live in those degrees, I actually have never needed a heater.



This is my danio tank and they are actually breeding in this setup o.o only 2 of them are two inches which is why I got the new 20 gal in there...also will be the new home for my betta (once i remove the shrimp in there)



The new tank! I need to get a bigger filter since my original plan was to use both of these filters...but I dont have the plugs for them XD rn I'm just hoping the baby danio fry I have in there will live long enough for me to find a sponge filter for them...or a prefilter to put on a normal filter. I also just bought new plants for this tank! They should come in tomorrow...I got 2 ferns (the person didn't know which kind but the pictures looked like java fern) and a big anubis plant! Knowing me, It'll add more plants...



And then the tank that started it all...and where my eventual rasporas will go! I'm going to check tomorrow since they said they might get a new shipment of them tomorrow. Though I am SO tempted to get their diamond tetras...I can't believe they actually carried them! The picture even caught my elusive clown loach since they generally flee at the sight of me. I also currently have an algae problem and for the life of me I cannot figure out what it was...my only thought is I have too much phosphates which I need to figure out how I can even tell. I think the one leaf on the amazon sword is dying/dead so I will need to snip it later...but I doubt its the cause of the algae problem.

I'm not too sure what is the issue, the picture is a bit too blurry to make out any details. Do you have any better pictures? A description would be helpful too.

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Yeah I realized it was hard to see but he's moving around...and I think it must've been that. It just looks like his entire tail fin was completely removed! It looks strangely even up close but I can see some tearing in the tail fin. I'm going tomorrow to pick up something for his fins to make sure they dont get infected since all I have at home is melafix...which apparently is toxic to cories! I also plan to have him in a breeding box and put him back inside his original aquarium; he looks pretty depressed and I want to factor out he's like this because he's missing his other buddies. I can also medicate him there rather than possibly killing off my cycling bacteria.

At least my cycling tank is not looking bad at all. I just need to get rid of the .25 ammonia that is pervasive but not surprising for a new tank but my nitrites are 0 and my nitrates is 10.

Yeah, that has to be it...while I definitely don't have any sharp edges, my loach moves the gravel around so over time they made little pockets where my algae eaters actually have made their home now...I'm sure some random hole next to either the driftwood or the plastic log caught his tail. Hopefully he lives through the ordeal but it sounds like it will eventually grow.

Sounds like a plan! I love river rocks, they look really nice.
I haven't been able to use them myself as my oscar would knock them around (so he has bare bottom) and my cories would have a hard time scrounging food with them (they have sand) but it sounds perfect for a turtle tank!

I love goldfish

Like, I get teased by other fish people for it but I love these smelly little weenies with all my heart and I wish one day to have a MASSIVE pond stocked with em and some goldfish-proof plants. They live for ages and they're so friendly and curious!

I will say I don't like the fancy goldfish trade though, I have similar feelings towards them and the unhealthy dog breeds; they don't deserve to have issues bred into them on purpose, but all are worthy of living their best lives regardless. Hell, if I had all the money, space and know-how in the world I'd run a fish rescue