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60 gallons with 100 gallon filtration

Just wondering if anyone has ever stocked a school of tiger barbs with a school of dwarf rainbow fish. I have them in separate tanks at the moment but want to upgrade everyone into a big tank. My tiger barbs have never picked on any one else as they’re in a school of 9. And the rainbows seem...

Yeah I know there’s a lot of people Who start out completely blind (myself) but they had her almost 8 years.. I’m sad her tank is empty now. I know we didn’t have her long but I loved sitting by her tank

Thanks guys, she didn’t make it. She gave up her fight Monday, my fiancé found her. I appreciate everyone’s help and guidance!

Update: still laying on the bottom, won’t touch feeder fish or worms, one of her fins is starting to look tattered as she’s been laying on it. Someone just told me silica sand (which was recommended by literally everyone ) holds onto ammonia and is actually making things worse but I can’t find...

I will give this a try tomorrow. Just when I think she is ready to let go she sits up and moves around ! I’ll try some worms and I’ll grab some small feeder fish from a local pet store I trust. It can’t hurt at this point ! Thanks so much for your help guys. She’s hanging in there some how !!!

You name it I’ve tried it...

Update: we started her on metro 2 days ago and we haven’t seen any change, still no food and still laying on the bottom. Her water is finally about 30-40 ppm nitrates. She seems to perk up a bit when we do a water change (daily ) and when we add her medication and touch up the aquarium salt...

Well up until we brought her home she was swimming fine and eating, she even took a bite at my fiancé. Since we’ve brought her home we’ve changed her environment, stabilized her nitrates, given her aquarium salt. Her HITH has improved significantly, and her fin rot has stopped. She’s been...

I’m willing to try anything at this point. This is currently our situation, as I just tried to feed her some krill..... anytime we get close to the tank she flops over. She will not eat anything I’ve tried, she doesn’t even respond to it. We’re putting in a bubbler and doing a water change...

I’ve started noticing she will flop and not really move if we are home and moving around, I’ve yet to sneak Into the house and see her swimming though. She’s staying in the bottom... is rubbing herself on the logs and new sand we got her normal? Lol I’ve never seen a fish do that but she seems...

I know they’re known for pouting and not eating. She has improved drastically in appearance, her HITH is much better, her tail is starting to heal from fin rot, she isn’t gasping as hard, she’s incredibly bright, with some shimmer coming back into her scales, and she was up and swimming around...

So we’re at the week mark, we’ve gotten her color back and her face is healing. But she isn’t swimming around anymore, she’s staying on the bottom of the tank. Still no interest in food. Is there anything I can do to help her feel better ? She pooped once when we brought her home and she is...

Physically she is doing fantastic ! (Still won’t eat and turns into a diva when we open the lid) we’ve gotten her nitrates to about 40ppm but because of where I live(ammonia in Tap water) it’s also spiked her ammonia and nitrite to .50ppm and .25ppm respectively. While those number aren’t...

I’ve only tried the large cichlid pellets, frozen brine shrimp and some veggies. She won’t come near any of it, which is fine. I’m not expecting her to eat this week, but I will keep trying until she does