Got My New Tank!

[Deadeye]

If not the Oscar, definitely one of the other fish. They are getting to a size where they realize the danios are potentially on the menu.

 

[Kustrud]

Alright, so my Oscar is insane. He gets crazy excited when I go to feed them. I can stick my hand in and touch him and he could care less, it's like he loves people lol! Anyway, opened the lid to sprinkle some food in and he literally jumped out and over the side and hit the floor before I could even drop the food in he was so excited!

Put him back in the tank and he looked confused for a minute and then just started eating like normal! He's wild!

 

[Kustrud]

He looks completely fine but that scared me!

 

[Deadeye]

Alright, so my Oscar is insane. He gets crazy excited when I go to feed them. I can stick my hand in and touch him and he could care less, it's like he loves people lol! Anyway, opened the lid to sprinkle some food in and he literally jumped out and over the side and hit the floor before I could even drop the food in he was so excited!

Put him back in the tank and he looked confused for a minute and then just started eating like normal! He's wild!

I had a blood parrot do that in the past - they definitely get excited by food.

 

[Kustrud]

Pictures suck during the day with the glare on the tank but wanted to try and get all of them together! Got all 9 in one pic lol! Tank is good, and everyone healthy! Oscar is getting absolutely huge compared to the others now! 80% Water change every other week and skip feeding on the weekends. Did a "test" and took 3 weeks with no change to hit 20 PPM nitrates. Water absolutely crystal clear as well!

 

[SilverArowanaBoi]

Pictures suck during the day with the glare on the tank but wanted to try and get all of them together! Got all 9 in one pic lol! Tank is good, and everyone healthy! Oscar is getting absolutely huge compared to the others now! 80% Water change every other week and skip feeding on the weekends. Did a "test" and took 3 weeks with no change to hit 20 PPM nitrates. Water absolutely crystal clear as well! View attachment 1548617View attachment 1548617View attachment 1548618View attachment 1548619View attachment 1548620View attachment 1548621

Beautiful fish and a spotless tank!

 

[Kustrud]

Finally have an update that's not so great. Good news is that the tank has been flawless! Clean, stable, easy, etc. etc. However, turned the lights on yesterday AM to my Firemouth looking a bit tattered and lethargic. He's always been beautiful and very active. Came in this AM and he was upside down and dead on the bottom. All other fish completely fine. I think I know what happened though.....The FM always chased and bullied the little Green Terror (GT was much smaller)....well after about 6 months + the GT is almost the same size as the FM. I noticed yesterday AM that the GT was flaring at and chasing the FM. I wonder if he finally had enough and turned the tables on him. Nothing has been added to or changed in the tank for 6 + months.

 

[HUKIT]

Is there a reason you didn’t remove the meeki after it took a beating and just left in the tank?

 

[Kustrud]

Is there a reason you didn’t remove the meeki after it took a beating and just left in the tank?

He didn't look terrible and it was only 1 day of noticing this so I figured I'd give it another day...

 

[troublesum]

I'd be careful of that petsmart center piece you have, i had one and the water gets inside and will start to smell unless you throw a bubbler in it to circulate the water it turn stall inside