ok thanks i won,t get snails

ok cool ill get some snails only thing i don,t like about snails they multiply to fast.. and to much

ok i guess i can relax now

I agree the red looks so much better and so much more active is it normal for the red to look like it swallowed an egg.?. and i use the 5 in 1 test strips.... and thanks again everybody i have really learned alot from this post.. so much easier than spending hrs surfing the whole net looking for ...

ok thanks is the hardness bad for the catfish how do i get the ph down a lit..

80
0
300
80
7.2
ok thats in order
nitrate
nitrite
hardness
alkalinty
ph
everything is looking better but how do i soften the water that won,t change????

is it ok for the red to eat both live fish and pellets... jeese its eating again the pellets he just ate that goldfish sometime today cause it was there this morning.. oh can anyone tells male or female this it word is driving me nuts..

i know what thing this redfish is alot more work before i had goldfish and platys, sucker fish some other fish i mabie cleaned the filter every 8 month or more usually when the filter water gets pluged i know im bad the water looked cleaned so leave it alone well somebody gives me a redtail it ...

theres 2 nitrate = nitrate- is 0 and nitrate+ is 200 now its
nitrate +3 is 80
nitrate-2 is 0
hardness is 300
alkalinty 80\ph is either 7.2 or 7.8 ok
now i don,t understand why i can,t feed the fish for a week 2 of my swardfish platys are due (fry) any day..

yea the water hasn,t been change ill do that now that red ate my swordfish female oh well at lease it had a big belly now and now its in the castle i don,t have that an something on my test strip just the nitrate- that shows 0

ok ive takin a test strip heres the results
nitrate = 200
nitrate - 0
hardness 300
alkalinity 80
ph 7.2
pretty much the same as yeserday i put drops in it didn,t change

ok now prob solved i think theres 2 baby goldfish missing and the redtail has been very active hasn,t hid in the castle and it just ate 2 feedings of some shrimp pellets creepy eats like a shark anyways i got some teststrips all five were off so i put stuff any ill test it again tommarrow the only 1 ...

ok

ive seen it eat the pellets before it eats like a shark.. what kind of frozen food the live don,t work i have 4 tiny goldfish guppy size ive had em for a week..

the petstore here told me to feed it wardley's shrimp pelllets formula the others seems to like the food.. i don,t see any parasites or worms in the tank..

ok what would be your point of the sticky i read it i didn,t choose the redtail it was given to my husband we never heard of it or anything we had pitcus and goldfish for about 2 yrs mabie a lit more they were just fine till i got this redtail.. so i thought i do some research it it seems to be ...

I HAD A PITCUS CATFISH WITH 4 DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOLDFISH FOR 3 YRS THE PITCUS CATFISH ALWAYS HIDES IN THE CASTLE COMES OUT AT NITE AND EAT THE FLAKE FOODS 2 MONTHS AGO I GOT A REDTAIL AND GOT RID OF THE GOLDFISH AND STARTING FEEDING THEM STRIMP PELLETS.. SINCE NEITHER WON,T EAT LIVE FISH.. BOTH ...

wow thas to big for me.. what about picas catfish how fast do they grow i had one for 3 yrs but only grew like an inch was that normal..

OH OK u mean 7 foot like shark size i never knew catfish can get bigger than 2 1/2 ft any kind of catfish.. i haven,t tested the water yet prlly will today or tommarrow.. how fast will this fish grow right now its 4 inches i had a picas catfish for 3 yrs in this tank only grew mabie 1 inch.. it died ...

:( i have a redatail thas 4 inches long ive had it since mid april i don,t know if its a female or a male it just sits there doesn,t eat anything i put in it theres 5 timy goldfish hasn,t eat one yet it did eat all of the swardfish fry a month ago the stomache look like it swallowed a egg.. now i ...

im new to this forum and im trying to find out whats wrong with my redtail catfish i only had it since mid april its only 4 inches it won,t eat anything what post do i go for answers?