u/breadmeupscotty

Only have had them a few days and they’re already perking up nicely.

I noticed one of my female turquoise rainbows has a bit of something going on with her lip. After close inspection, my other female does as well (couldn’t get a clear photo of the second one). Does this seem like an injury or infection? They can be a little rough on each other at times. Both spots are tiny and can only be seen from certain angles. I’m a new fish keeper and every little thing is stressing me out. I do have a second tank nearly finished cycling that I intend to use for quarantine or hospital if needed.

Water parameters are perfect, zeroes across the board. I also do weekly ~30% water changes.

My tank is approximately two months old and boy am I learning a lot. It’s 50 gallons, has a Fluval 110 gallon HOB filter. Pretty heavily planted for being new, lots of water wisteria. I do have a 24 hour cycle light on the tank, which sort of follows the natural daylight cycle and switches off at night.

0 nitrite, 0 ammonia, very low nitrate (0-5), 6.5 ph. 77 degrees. Currently has five turquoise rainbows, five red sailfin Cories, and two panda garra. Currently waiting on a second, smaller quarantine tank to be ready to go before I add any more fish.

I’ve noticed this bright green algae(?) slowly begin to cover the front sand/gravel. It doesn’t really look slimy and it isn’t really forming sheets. I’m not sure how to treat it as I’m not sure what it is. The color looks like cyano, but the behavior doesn’t (from what I’ve seen). My current plan is to install a small water circulator to create movement along the lower part of the tank to the other side, which has more growth, is exposed to more natural light, and has more debris. Until I’m able to get those in the mail, I can manually remove best I can and gravel vac. Any advice or pointers to what exactly it is/how to manage would be awesome!

My tank is approximately two months old and boy am I learning a lot. It’s 50 gallons, has a Fluval 110 gallon HOB filter. Pretty heavily planted for being new, lots of water wisteria. I do have a 24 hour cycle light on the tank, which sort of follows the natural daylight cycle and switches off at night.

0 nitrite, 0 ammonia, very low nitrate (0-5), 6.5 ph. 77 degrees. Currently has five turquoise rainbows, five red sailfin Cories, and two panda garra. Currently waiting on a second, smaller quarantine tank to be ready to go before I add any more fish.

I’ve noticed this bright green algae(?) slowly begin to cover the front sand/gravel. It doesn’t really look slimy and it isn’t really forming sheets. I’m not sure how to treat it as I’m not sure what it is. The color looks like cyano, but the behavior doesn’t (from what I’ve seen). My current plan is to install a small water circulator to create movement along the lower part of the tank to the other side, which has more growth, is exposed to more natural light, and has more debris. Until I’m able to get those in the mail, I can manually remove best I can and gravel vac. Any advice or pointers to what exactly it is/how to manage would be awesome!

I got six tiny red sailfins (about 1/2” long) last week. They’ve been doing extremely well in my tank and I’m so excited about them. Woke up this morning to feed them and noticed this one has only one bulging eye that has turned cloudy. My guess is he has scratched it on something? I don’t know what to do for him. Catching fish is difficult due to how many hiding spots/driftwood I’ve created and I don’t want to stress him further by isolating and treating with a medication (what medication is appropriate?). My current plan of action is to do water changes and hope for the best. Please educate me if I’m wrong! Thank you, everyone.

Tank is approximately six weeks old and has been consistently showing perfect perimeters for three weeks. Tank is heavily planted. Here are my levels as of this morning:
Nitrite 0
Nitrate ~5
Ammonia 0
PH 7.4
Water temp 77

Edit: apologies for poor photo quality. Tried to get two angles to compare the two eyes.

Original post linked below. I went back to my store and they had indeed mislabeled the cories. They agreed to swap the ones they sold me for the actual red sailfins. I came home with six baby ones (had to catch the original bronze ones, holy cow, what a chore!) Here’s a cute video. Thanks to everyone who set me straight yesterday on the variety I was sold.
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I was so excited to see my store had the sailfin, as I’m new to the hobby and these are my first cories. I really wanted the pop of red/orange in my tank. I got four with the intention of going back for a few more (got them yesterday, was going to go back today). After getting them home, they look more like bronze to me? I thought maybe their color is just muted and will brighten, but now I’m not sure. They’re about an inch right now.

Edit: man, that’s a bummer. Thanks everyone. Paid the sailfin price :(

Update: my LFS had the fish incorrectly labeled. They agreed to swap the ones I had for the correct Cories. I now have six little baby actual red sailfins (obviously so, already red and green) and they are so cute.

This is my brand new, freshwater tank. We’ve had water and plants in it for about ten days and added four turquoise rainbows and one lone molly on Saturday the 20th. We have a really awesome local fish store we have been visiting quite frequently and are learning as much as we can. Regular water tests at our fish shop show it’s cycling correctly. I plan to add more plants in the next few days.

We’re hoping to build a very peaceful community, but info online is all over the place. Totally understand it’s fish by fish to a degree, as all have their own personalities. My current wish list to begin adding over the next several weeks as our tank continues to cycle:

Boesemani rainbows to accompany my turquoise ones (currently have two males and two females- potentially the same numbers in the boesemani?)
Pearl gourami (potentially one male, two females)
Peacock gudgeons (entirely unsure on the numbers here)
Panda Cory cats (again, unsure on numbers)
Twig catfish
Amano shrimp

Our tank is a 50 gallon. I see a huge range of number of fish/number of each species acceptable for this size. I would love suggestions of any kind in terms of numbers and compatability!

Note about the molly: my husband had them as a kid and loved them. We got two males. One male was absolutely insane and bullied the other fish constantly. We donated him back to the fish store. The other male molly is perfectly content and peaceful and even sort of shoals with the rainbows. We don’t really want to add more mollies.

Edit: yes, we are aware we added fish too soon. We added the bacteria the shop recommended before adding fish and had the water tested before the fish were introduced. At the time, we didn’t know any different and trusted the shop’s advice. We’ve done a lot of research since and now realize the mistake, which is why we’re waiting to add anything else (probably several weeks or until the tank is in better condition). Just trying to form a plan for when the tank IS ready for more.