r/fishkeeping

I have a 90gallon with a 4-5in EB JD, a close to mature Angelfish (odd pair but as individuals work great with eachother), 4 Siamese Algea eaters (3in or so each), 4 clown loach (about 2.5in each) and 3 Golden Killifish.

I also have a 30gal with a 3.5in EB JD, 2 siamese algea eaters about 1.5in each and a random blue baddis who somehow came with plants and I havent been able to catch for months lol.

Power went out Friday at around 5pm. It is now Sunday at 5:15 while Im typing and theyre not expecting to have our power resored until Wed-Thursday due to the severity of the damage..

Its about 80-90° so temp is not an issue, but bubbles are. We have the crappy little generator and all generators are sold out around us, so the best Ive been able to do is running their bubblers for about an hour 1//2 or two every 12 hours or so when we come to check on our cats (we were able to take our dogs to where were staying right now, but the cats are fine as they can hang in oir basement - our two special needs kids cant take the heat)...

My fish seem fine for now and the last couple days but this cant be sustainable, right??? What can we do to keep our fish alive?? Im not sure I can swing it today, but tomorrow I could come do water changes and also can the rest of the days without power but things have been too hectic until tomorrow - would that and bubbler for 2 hours every 12 hours or so be enough??

Despite my title seeming a little silly I'm really having a hard time right now.

I have these two beautiful fairly large goldfish that I inherited from my grandfather when he was no longer able to care for them. If my math is correct they are most likely about 14 years old. They have done cross-states moves with me two times now.

These fish are tough cookies they survived both of these moves and some pretty harsh living conditions with my grandfather while he was struggling to care for them.

I love these fish dearly and since living with me I admittedly have spoiled them rotten. They have frequent water quality checks, regular tank cleanings and routine water changes, two bubblers, two filters, pebbles/substrate. Which they did not previously have in their last life with my grandfather.

I'm sure most of you know about the heat wave that is hitting many areas of the world right now. Well unfortunately I'm going undergoing one right now in addition to that my AC broke.

In the chaos of fixing my AC it seems one of my fish had jumped out and killed himself. By the time I got home he was bone dry and there was no hope of saving him. These fish have never jumped out of their water before and all of their years and they're multiple homes. They had just recently had a water change and all of their water levels were perfect. I'm absolutely devastated over this and feel so guilty. I truly don't know what caused it the only thing I can think of is the heat wave that's happening my apartment has been in the high 80s all week and I've just been toughing it out but I didn't think about how the heat would be affecting the goldfish because they started out as pond fish.

I just can't get this guilty feeling out of my stomach and I just feel so horrible I feel like I let my grandfather down as he left me to care for his fish that I killed. I cared so much for these fish and I just feel like I failed them.

Thank you for listening

I will be getting a 5 gallon tank but I don’t know what I should do about the feeding process and what pebbles to use

I have a betta and 6 pygmy corys in a 45-47L tank, this was my FIRST ever tank and its about 3 months old? everything has been absolutely fine however, something is off in my tank and I really don't understand what it is, all my duckweed died over night, the water is cloudy and the tint from the almond leaves just completely vanished, and I've noticed 2 of my corys acting odd. They'll swim up for air then come back down and be on their back on the ground and just not move, but if you disturb them they just swim off, and do it again a minute later, admittedly I panicked and I put those two in my mum's tank cause I thought it was a swim bladder issue (my mum's tank is shallower)

I use root tabs, flourish, the water parameters fine I think (ammonia <0.02, nitrate 0ppm, nitrite 0ppm, ph around 6.5), the ONLY thing different about the tank is I added some extra sand (washed) to just replace the sand I lost during a water change, so I expected a bit of cloudiness from that but not this much

Not too long after I started this tank, I got confident and made my mum's tank (has a female betta), the tank is smaller than mine, around 25L but long and shallower, and that tank has been better than mine in every way possible, so I'm not sure what I'm doing right and wrong on either tanks here..

I'm thinking I bit off more than I could chew as a first time fish keeper, which is why I wanted to ask, is it okay to downsize to the same size tank as my mum's, just till my corys are better and I learn how to better manage larger tanks :(? maybe even setting it up so my corys are in this tank and my betta is in the smaller one?

Also if you know whats going on with my corys please please any advice would be amazing

I have a 40 gallon breeder that I would like to set up to use as a breeding tank so I have feeders for my big predatory fish. That being said I don’t know if I should use convict cichlids or make a big live bearer tank with mollies, guppies, and other live bearers. I’ll mostly be feeding fry but would also like bigger adult fish for when my bass gets bigger and for my SA cichlids.