I know I am overstocked but I like my fish

Mabel

Mabel

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Okay, I got bit by the"need a bigger tank" November 2006. I have a 35 gallon tank that has the following fish in it: 2 bloodfins, 1 1/2 neons, 2 fruities, 1 pleco, 1 ghost shrimp, 2 glass cats, 1 stick pleco, 3 prisillas, 1 tri-colored shark(he's big), 1 albino cat (He's as big as a man thumb), 1 weather loch (6"), 3 lagoons (I am not sure if that is there name; pink, orange, neon yellow). I have lost my Angel (Buckeye) and a glass cat 1 week ago. My tank looks so empty with out Buckeye; he took up a large space in the tank. He had the lip thing that made them huge. He had survived for over 2 years in my care with them that way by hand feeding.

All the fish except for a few are tetra's With what I have in the tank could I continue to collect more small tetra's?
 
I have a filter that is under my rock and a back tank filter for a 20 gallon tank that I had on my old 10 gallon tank. My rocks are about 2-4" think in my tank.
 
How is the 1/2 neon getting by?

If you want to do small community fish, do them and get another tank for the larger fish or donate them.
 
Mabel said:
Okay, I got bit by the"need a bigger tank" November 2006. I have a 35 gallon tank that has the following fish in it: 2 bloodfins, 1 1/2 neons, 2 fruities, 1 pleco, 1 ghost shrimp, 2 glass cats, 1 stick pleco, 3 prisillas, 1 tri-colored shark(he's big), 1 albino cat (He's as big as a man thumb), 1 weather loch (6"), 3 lagoons (I am not sure if that is there name; pink, orange, neon yellow). I have lost my Angel (Buckeye) and a glass cat 1 week ago. My tank looks so empty with out Buckeye; he took up a large space in the tank. He had the lip thing that made them huge. He had survived for over 2 years in my care with them that way by hand feeding.

All the fish except for a few are tetra's With what I have in the tank could I continue to collect more small tetra's?
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One and one HALF neon? :huh:
 
my 1/2 neon...well I originally had 6 - 6months ago and now I only have 1 1/2 left. When I woke up yesterday and the 2nd one was missing an eye and it looked blackish. Today it is still alive but barley. My "lagoons" might actually be zebra dano's? I am not really sure but with what everyone says about those it sounds like my Pink, Yellow, and Orange ones are.
 
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I would try and see why you're losing fish (Angel & glass cat one week ago, now a neon) before you try and add more.

If you want to get some help with that question the following information would assist people try and work it out with you :

How much water are you changing weekly ?

How often do you gravel vac ?

Can you test (using a liquid test strip) for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate ?

What's your filtration ?
 
Mabel said:
my 1/2 neon...well I originally had 6 - 6months ago and now I only have 1 1/2 left. When I woke up yesterday and the 2nd one was missing an eye and it looked blackish. Today it is still alive but barley. My "lagoons" might actually be zebra dano's? I am not really sure but with what everyone says about those it sounds like my Pink, Yellow, and Orange ones are.
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I lost 2 neons via having one of their eyes sucked out of their heads by another agressive fish. The aggression I later found to be associated with overcrowding. Now that I have less fish, the agression is gone.

...and yes, I saw another fish suck the eye out of a neon tetra while feeding them! :eek:

It would be best to euthanize the little guy IMO... :(
 
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