Silver Dollar Fish Care (Need to Know)
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- Aquarium Silver Dollar Fish care is East if you understand it correctly. Tank mates for silver dollar is almost anything you can think of (unless it eats it). Silver dollar fish growth is very slow so be patient.
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Wait just one pellet every few days!? I feed ours once or twice a day a few pellets he let's me know he's hungry by staring at the little door at the top of the tank lol...he is also very picky and only eats the pellets when they are falling. not floating at the top or sunk at the bottom so I feel like he misses a lot of them.I suggest get to know your little buddy and judge it as you go...good luck.
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I really think it depends on your fish, what kind of filtration you have, the size of your tank, the tank mates, how many plants are in there, etc. There is no right answer.
However, I will say that the fish in my daughter's room gets forgotten about often and he is thriving and has been for years. I feed him when I go in there to put away clothes and he doesn't always get fed in between. He is old and happy and his water parameters are perfect, so I try to just let him do his thing.
My fish eat twice a day and I know I put more in than I should. My female is a fatty but my male isnt. My female is in with other fish though, so that’s why she gets more. Some has to reach the others lol. I would say that the guy at the store met everyday.
But for me what I find to be the most annoying is the fact that my male Silver dollar fish can't seem to live. My tanks have been properly cycled. I have natural plants in my tank. Three of my fish are female so because they're kept in a small tank there medicated. Pet stores in Taiwan used to do that but now they don't do it anymore. So now all the betas are kept in small drinking cups. if you check out my UA-cam channel welcome to the wild I believe I posted a video about that.
I acclimate the fish properly too but I don't know. All I know is it's pissing me off and it's making me want to start my own beta shop.
If I had my own shop I would pretreat all the fish for bacterial fungal infections and parasites. And my fish would have the best diet possible. I would have a selection of 300 fish.
Since we are on the topic of feeding (so sorry for jacking your post for a second) what's the recommended feeding schedule for a Giant? I just got my first giant today and I know he will require a bit more food. My regular betta used to get 2-3 pellets in the morning and 2-3 in the evening, blood worms or brine shrimp on Saturdays, no food on Sundays.
You have to realize their stomach is the size of their eyeball they don't need to eat 2-3 times a day and they are fine not eating 2-3 days. But its up to the individual owner. I feed mine 4 pellets a day.
So I feed my guy 3 pellets in the am, and same at night, sometimes its blood worms at night, but recently I posted his photo, and someone said it looks like he is starving. So here he is, he's active, and I think in good health.
I feed every other day. That is all. We have had 2 bettas in 2 years and the one we have now we got in Oct. The the 1st one was our 1st and he got terrible fin rot and we didnt know about IAL and thawed frozen daphnia at that time like we do now. We feed frozen (thawed in a little tank water) different foods every other day like....blood worms one night, daphnia another, brine shrimp another (remember- all frozen, thawed in a little cup of tank water, and I use plastic reptile feeder tweezers to feed him with just like he's a baby and he loves it, food doesn't get wasted).
Sometimes I may give him a few pellets in the morning because he likes those too but not very often. Everytime I open the lid like a hundred of the darn things go all over the place even when opening the tiny jar really slowly, makes no sense but it always wants to make a mess. But thats how I feed the betta and also I feed my other tank with a cory catfish, a molly and 3 guppies the exact same frozen thawed foods. Oh, and a few bottom feeder pellets for the cory.
Every fish is different, and the foods are different. If he sold you the pellets they push here, feeding more than one pellet will make them constipated because it's mostly vegetation and bettas are more carnivores. Read the ingredients on the food. If it's not primarily protein sources like fish, shrimp, insects, worms, it's going to constipate your betta.
If the top 3 -5 ingredients are fish meal, shrimp meal, worm meal, insect meal, etc, then the pellet should be small enough to fit in the mouth. Feed 2 - 5 pellets. Some bettas are super active and need more food. Some are more sedate, and don't expend as many calories. Watch the tummy, and the body. You don't want a big fat tummy, you want a well proportioned and muscular fish. - Розваги
I'm so glad I found you , my silvers are so beautiful and calm . we moved last year and we were left them by the previous owners, we have just bought some black widows and clown lochers and iam so pleased they are all getting along 🥰 i honestly think they are happy that we got them some friends 😭🥰☺
I think the best behavior can be seen when the silver dollars have the tank for themselves. I have them in somewhat low lighting and they school great! Their colors pop out and eat very well too. In my opinion they have better behavior in comparison to a tank setup with other cichlids as tankmates.
Yeah
I've found upside down catfish with silver dollars is perfect they keep to their own and schooling didn't change. You're so right about the colors - in the light they shine a beautiful silver & blue.
I like your videos ,so informative 👍and can see the hardwork you are putting in.
I have a single, 18 year old, rescued silver dollar. He's, as you'd say, extremely insecure. Or as I'd say, he has strong opinions and is very in touch with his emotions. He's got rasboras and otos as his emotional support fish, and that's made a ln enormous difference in his stress levels.
Hey mate your videos are awesome you have taught me heaps keep up the good work
I have 4 silver dollars in a 95 gallon community tank. I have a lot of water movement and they love it. They like to swim back and forth into the current.
Amazing video dont be soo hard on yourself your your own worst critic 💘 ya man. Those cichlids are ALL looking stunning man
We have 2 silver dollars in a 55 gal bow front and yes indeed they are rather shy and skittish.
I had to add some black cardstock to the outside sides of the tank so they wouldn't freak out so much with us walking by. I've also moved the plants to the front so the can hide behind them better.
I wish I could afford a larger tank for them and I could add a few more.
Good advice on the lower lighting btw and something I need to fix.
On a side note they love steamed peas squished out of the husk as a treat and shrimp pellets.
Hey great video! I just picked up six small silver dollars today...will they be cool in a 45 gallon for 6-9 months?
great info to refer back to thx
Hello Chris and thanks for the video. What kind of silver dollars you have in this aquarium? My aquarium is length 4.6 feet by width 2.6 and height 2.1 . Is it enough space for housing silver dollars and if yes what types would you recommend?
I ordered 4 young silver dollars from Aqua Huna. They only had packs of 4. I got 55gallon. I got some platys and guppies. I hope they'll be ok since only having 4.
Guppies probably wouldn't work out in the long run
Great video , thank you 💐. I have a question please , I bought two new silver dollars and one of them is acting ok , while the other one is breathing fast and stood still on the upper corner of the tank, so is it normal on the dollar first day in new tank to do this ? Will it be ok or I'm going to lose it? 😭
What brand dehumidifier?!! LOVE your vids btw!
Yeah and at times I give mind shrimp . They love it
I have 3 silver dollars and yes they are very nervous fish, they light low light and somewhere to hide.
Can you touch on the varieties size etc. I’ve heard that the red hook get the biggest compared to the spotted or striped variety. Is there others and max size 8-10 inches? And life span up to 10 years?
Thx for video...I have silver dollar with white spot on it...I turn up the temperature to 29 degree Celsius...give extra air...sea salt...not better...guide me plz
With the possessed tank, do you think maybe it could be something with the stand? Its weird that it would fail over and over
I have 2 silver dollars and they're always hiding in the corner. My question is, if I buy more silver dollars, (stripe or dotted) would they be livelier and swim around with them or would stay skittish for the rest of their life?
I have 5 silver dollars in a 30 liter tank atm. I bought them from my fish store to go with my African cichlids but my cichlids started attacking them so I had to move them to this tank. I am going to get a big tank for them and get more silver dollars to go in with them with some decorations that they can hide behind. i currently have there ph. at 7.4 and temperature set on 28 degrees Celsius but it is around 26 degrees Celsius. One of them is really skinny, he is eating and everything is normal but he looks so skinny and isn't putting on weight, what could be wrong with him? also what is the safest nitrate level before doing a water change for them? thank you so much and love your channel
Kept dollars for a while we have one female red hook which is so relaxed it has chilled my others in the group to the point where they come to my hand and I can hold them! Best tip is small tank and hand in everyday until they stop freaking out, then they can go into large mixed aquariums, stressed dollars are such a shame as they are suicide prone
just rescued 5 of these guys from my father in law... he had them in a 10 gallon tank =O , unfortunately my 120 g tank is used to house my pond fish in the winter.....should I feel bad having them in a 3ft, 30 gallon tank?
I almost adopted some fully grown ones at petstore today but i got preditors shoved together n its good as is surprised im getting away with peacock umbuna GT JD and 3 different pikes!!! But i learned my technique of keeping the environment changing usually every 2 weeks they re dig re establish territory
U taught me sooo much man. Just started too many projects when u was already a master of cichlid behaviors!!
What do i need to know about breeding Silver Dollars ???
Question is there a plant they won't eat to put in aquarium
Could I keep silver dollar fish with peacocks, or in my Hap tank? 450L -4x2
Mine just left a bunch of eggs took some of them out so they would not be eating put them in a bucket with a heater any advice?
I Chris I had a question about my silver dollars. So I have 4 of them in a 75 and two of them have paired off and both their tails turned black and red and they literally keep being together and like are basically doing it but I don’t see no eggs at all.
you should cap you substrate with sand, this works great.
Plants! I have 2 planning on getting another one but I need to know what plants to keep with them because they are just eating up everything I put in :(
Wow thats a reaaly professional aquascape you got going on there. Those drainpipes are stunning. Why dont you throw a few baseball caps in and finish the look off.
my silver dollars like algae wafers, they steal them off of my Pleco, then spin them around in their mouth, nibbling at the edges until there's nothing left
would a couple of these guys go well in my community tank with a angel, giant danio/zebra danios, corys, clown pleco and snails? im going to upgrade soon to a 80g
Yes! I currently have mine with an angel, rainbow shark, and white skirt tetras and they do great
Why do silver dollars look like they have Ich on them? Is it the lighting?
I transferred 1 silver dollar from a 12 gallon community tank into a 40gallon turtle tank. I might have to pick up a few more so they could thrive together.
Can you recommend any live plants you have found they don’t eat?
I think they will eat all plants
what kind of shelf’s do you have your tanks on? tyia
Had 20, none to ever die but I gave away 14 got 6 and I love em because they get alone with every fish I buy or had.
But I don’t understand 1 thing about them every now and then they get these red or orange small circles on them but it goes away and returns every now and then.
What are those coloured cichlids with silver dollor?
Can you keep them with tiger barbs, i see 1 in the tank
Shall i keep this with arowana?
I have angelfish with them. They get along together
In 2015 I got 4 silver dollars. 1 died of ich around 2016 or so. I had 3 silver dollars but 1 hid all the time and would only come out once in a while. 2 were silver and the one that hid all the time was very colorful and changed from dark to light. In December 2020 I found 1 of the silver ones was floating on top dead. I have 1 silver and the colorful one left. The colorful one no longer hides and stays side by side with the silver one and they are all over the tank. The other night I heard this thrashing noise I went to see what was happening and the colorful one was swimming real fast hitting all the sides of the tank and finally calmed down. He is all banged up and skin is peeling off. The silver one is hiding. This morning I was feeding the fish and he jumped out of the tank and I got him back in and he was swimming wobbly. I just walked up to the tank to check on him and he took off again hitting all the sides. I am not sure what to do. I don't have a hospital tank.
This a 75 gallon tank. I have four red tetras with long fins, four black tetras with long fins and four off white tetras and I got them 2018. I have something like 30 catfish that are constantly creating other catfish.
The colorful one and the silver one are both 3"to 4" long, and up to 2+" in width. I am assuming that the colorful one will die.
Can I put 1-inch silver dollars in there. Will the one lonely silver one get along with the babies?
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Rehome the silver dollar fish that you have left. Give them to someone who has the proper set up to care for them. They are supposed to live up to 10 years and live in a school of 8 to 10 or more in a big tank. Just don't keep them anymore if you don't do it correctly.
The catfish probably chased them. You have way too many fish in one 75 g tank and with that size tank, I am surprised that you can't keep a smaller cycled hospital tank or sump tank. Get some help to do it correctly or get out of the hobby because your fish are under constant stress, bad parameters, overcrowding, wrong species being kept together and dying on you.
@@aquadesignsbymlt4769 people like you make this hobby less popular. Beginners make mistakes. You can't tell me you have never impulse buyed a fish or abused one when you were new.
Check your tank for stray current.
I wanna get 4 or 5 for my S & C cichlid tank
Those silver dollars wouldn’t crash the glass so much if they had some places to hide. They’re very agile and can stop on a dime. They’re just not finding what they’re looking for. Any insecure fish needs places to hide but dollars need them up high. Tall plants with gaps between, etc.
I want to see, silver dollar, parrot fish, sevrum , and acara
At first I had this baby bala shark and I brought it home sick I was thinking I could make it better I then introduced new tiger barb fish and other bala shark fish and apparently the tiger barbs may have ate the sick baby baller start but then I noticed all of my bars but one got sick and I'm thinking it's from them eating the sick Bala shark so then I notice the week later three of my tiger barbs are now sick same symptoms as the one bala they ate so now I have sick barbs all but one is healthy. So now about a week later I noticed that the sick bars have been disappearing one by one only the sick ones so I'm thinking my large silver dollar fish must be eating the sick ones off now my tank has nothing but healthy fish and I hope it stays that way.
Really great😍 Can you please type in the names of the fishes that you have in this tank !!!!!
I have 5 fully grown silver dollars with 1 red tail shark 1 yoyo loach and 3 bristle nose in a 96 gal tank. I'm looking for the right tank mate that will gel with the red tail and dollars. Dont have much active at top half of tank. Any suggestions?
How big are they when fully grown? So far my biggest is 3 inches.
@@whteman2 They'll get up to 6", with their shape, about the size of a saucer.
Iv kept 2 of em with redhat, koi and goldfish they have grown bigger and still cool with its tank mates
My silver dollars act like piranha had to take them and separate them in to different tank
I have 4 in 90.They are anxiety.took algae sticks.red t.shark can't.I put food by his stone orn
Why do you have only ONE Tiger Barb in there?!?!??! Poor guy. He looks like he's just searching for his buddies! Definitely a schooling fish. I'm sure you know better, but you should have mentioned it. However; I'm tickled to get the info! Thinking about adding an Angel to my 125 with my Silver Dollars and now I know I can! YAY!
I'm so sorry about your tats decision
I recently found out my silver dollars enjoy earth worms I have never heard of anyone trying this wanted to put that out there
Will silver dollars shed scales if they get too stressed? It’s like my silver dollar is shedding its skin?
my silver dollars lose scales when they get startled but it's usually because they run into things, their scales are really tiny and very easy to knock off,
Can they be with bala sharks?
Yes..I have one ☝🏼 Bala shark in with 10 Silver dollars.they all came to my home together in 2017..I also have 3 Bristle nose plec and a few Corys..all in a 450 litre Juwel Vision tank..and all is fine with them👍🏼
Sounds like the fish for me. A friend is giving me his 10 yo silver dollar. Never kept them so should be fun
Don’t they only tend to live for about 10 years? I could be wrong
Gosh they look like mini piranhas lol i want to get 5 silver dollars, 4 blood red parrots, n 4 cory doras in a 60 gallon. Do u think that is too much for a 60? That way its fish in the top, middle, n bottom.
Yep
"They ram themselves into the glass because of how nervous they are"
or because the fkin tank is too small lol
Maybe they are like nah man that’s just how we are and then as humans we project our anxiety onto them.
I don’t like it when they’re put with Oscars and Cichlids 🙃 good video! I’ve kept them for like more than 20 years. My favorite fish 😌
I keep mine with my 2 Oscar’s and it is pretty good but, I agree because of the Oscar’s the are more Skittish. So I’m moving my Oscar’s.
@@dianamorrison5673 I have noticed though, that they do need like... that one particular fish to keep them in check, otherwise they start fighting together. I keep blue loaches for this :) It's worked wonders!
I wanna see a cichlid behaviors 4 parter
What size are these
Constant anxiety sounds like you may need to be medicated...no joke. Good video though. What temp do you suggest because I heard between 72-75 degrees which seems unattainable with consistency🤷🏾♂️
Your not wrong about easy to look after i have a school of about 20 annd all i do is feed them
Got 10 silver dollars after this video 😁
I got a 55gal. And going to get a 80gal
Breeding silver dollars please
If they are high anxiety, which fish are low anxiety?
Any livebearer and a large selection of cichlids
Goldfish they're pretty social
Is 55 gallon to small for 5 sliver dollars?
my 125 is a bit cramped for mine but it does have a lot of fish
If you keep them with some other small schooling fish like congo tetras, I wouldn't see why they wouldn't be fine. As long as they feel comfortable with decent low lighting, they'll be fine.
I had one of these fish and they bit the other fish
Yeah mind are getting bigger
I love my silver dollars but I dislike them some times I had to put them by them self there like piranhas no cap
HELLO can i mix different type of silver dollar ????
I have Altidorsalis, Argenteus, and lippincottianus together and they school fine.
I would be careful with putting garlic in a Tank with silver dollars
While it helped my petenia beating internal parasites it killed my silver Dollars in no time
Fish soup??
My temperature is 82f.
I've had one silver dollar that bit the fins of three of my Angel's and killed one, and it had a group of about 4 others and the tank only had about 5 medium angels and 3 dwarf gouramis in a 120. I have no clue what happened but that fish was an asshole.
Silver dollars are normally schooling fish, keeping 1 in a tank with other species make it agressive.
Great setup bro but youtube is bullshit
We have silver dollar
Need to Care
a couple of fake plants go a long way for silver dollars
Shit happens.
I lost interest after listening to him waffle on about everything except the Silver Dollars.