david - 2011-06-12 Are Rams compatible with Heckel Discus, Altum (wild) Angelfish, and Black Ghost Knifefish? How about with Silver Dollars?
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Charlie Roche - 2011-06-13 The Knifefish needs a minimum of a 100 gallon tank on his own. They are beautiful but they get huge and he will most likely eat the others.
cody - 2013-02-24 The angel fish isn't recommended but you may try with a knife fish all depends on you tank size to oh and for the discus. Alot of people may tell you to keep them in a single species tank and they need different water phlevels in their tank.
Linda - 2013-02-13 I have a Silver Dollar that I have had for about 7 years. Just in the 2 weeks he has been looking a little swollen and today I noticied that his eyes are bulging quite badly. I am guessing that he is probably old and sick and going to die. Is there anything I can do and do you think he is in any discomfort. I have him in a tank with 4 very large angels.
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Jeremy Roche - 2013-02-14 Eyes buldging are usually a water condition issue. You may have had a spike in one or more of your levels.
Cindy - 2012-05-07 My silver dollars are about 5 years old and for the last three days one has been laying at the bottom of the tank and his eyes are cloudy looking. He seems to be breathing fast and is very disoriented when I disturb him...swims very fast and hits everything. I don't know what to do to help. I have been putting some melafix in the tank every day but have not done any water changes because I don't want to stress him out. Any advice would be appreciated very much. Thank you.
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Jeremy Roche - 2012-05-08 Check you water levels and definately do a water change. Do you have good water movement?
Cindy - 2012-05-08 Yes lots of bubbles and the other fish are all doing good. How do I check my water levels?
0768890875@vodamail.co.za - 2012-08-06 How long will it takes before the eggs is ready to brake open for life? Sorry my englich is bad.
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Charlie Roche - 2012-08-07 After the eggs are laid, if they are fertile, they will take about 3 - 4 days to hatch.
Annatjie - 2012-12-02 Please help, my dollars (6 in a 200litter tank) look as if they lay egges, small tiny white stuff thin like hair on the glass of the tank and on the pots in the tank, in the mornings earrly the pots is cleaned and after a hour or so you see on the pots this look like dust or fine sand lite, lite broun, what is it it goes now for 2 week + and I don't se any black swimming. How big is the eggs and fry after. Please help me. This is the 1st time my Dollars done that, the water is clear and the temp is right. I have 8 diffrent tanks with diffrent fish spesies. All Tropical. My Guppies an d Mollies is get babys a lot on time. I had the fishes now 1 year. My Widows had I put also now in seperit tanks it looks lite they will also strat briding. I also don't now nothing about them. Pleasse can you help me. I will glad if you can give me advise or photos about the drifferent fishes and how it looks when they start breading and how it looks. Thank you very much.Annatjie
Annatjie - 2012-12-03 I write a few minutes a go, now I see on the pots is white stuff look if they had a black spot inside. They lay between the lite brown stuff on the pots is this eggs and what will happen with them. In the evenings they are gone. Please help. Annatjie. Thank You.
Ian - 2011-10-06 I got 4 small silver dollars, about the size of silver dollars.... I tried to put them in with my 3 inch Tiger Oscar but he chased them all around and actually grabbed one in its mouth! I moved them to a different tank... Any suggestions on what I should do to try to get the silvers back with my Oscar? Oh and I got the silver dollars for a great price of 1.25 when my Oscar was about 10.
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Zorb catfish - 2011-11-05 It depends on your oscars temperament. If it if relatively peaceful to larger fish than you can put then in when full grown. If your Oscar is very mean than I would not recommend putting them in at all
Alex Burleson - 2011-11-05 Unless your Silver Dollars are about the same size as your Oscar, or too large for them to fit in his mouth, they should not be housed with him! Silver Dollars are more peaceful than a large Cichlid such as an Oscar, and should be separately housed.
Jeremy Roche - 2012-05-15 You really need bigger silver dollars. Sometimes if you feed the oscar heavily and make sure it is very full and slow, then try to re-introduce the silver dollars. Make sure the oscar remains full until he gets use to the idea of sharing his tank.
Tegan - 2012-05-15 My dollar fish is getting eatin alive by my tiger striped fish! WHAT SHOULD I DO?
Ezz - 2012-05-28 i have got a silver dollar, and it is always staying beside the filter away from other fish in the tank , is that normal, and do it need a companion?
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Charlie Roche - 2012-05-28 It is recommended that a tnak be 75 gallons for a silver dollar - so how big is your tank?
oscar - 2012-05-28 My tank is small it is only 30 litres can a silver dollar fish live in it or it needs a larger tank?
Jeremy Roche - 2012-10-24 Silver Dollars do like to be in groups. They do tend to be shy without some of its own kind.
Anonymous - 2012-01-26 Hi, how many of these can I keep in a 150 gallon tank with a red bellie pacu, 3 senegal bichirs, 4 firemouth cichlids, 4 feeder fish, 6+ mousquito fish, 6 banded dartersP.S. the silver dollars would be to distract the pacu from edible fish like the darters.
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Jake Hunt - 2012-05-27 Having Firemouth cichlids in the aquarium is a bad idea if you want to introduce silver dollars! :/
Honda - 2012-10-24 Thank you for this! The information is very clear and seems prainssfoeol. It is very straightforward. I have been reading and researching different websites for hours and this is the most help I've gotten all night. I am a beginner with a 20 gal tank. I need all the help I can get, and clearly I need to upgrade my equipment a little.
Clarice Brough - 2012-02-26 You can, but be sure you have a large enough tank with decor, like plants, to provide hiding places. The Bala shark is a very nervous fish, and it will get very big.
The Silver Dollar is one of the most readily recognized fish in the hobby, and a favorite too!
Are Rams compatible with Heckel Discus, Altum (wild) Angelfish, and Black Ghost Knifefish? How about with Silver Dollars?
The Knifefish needs a minimum of a 100 gallon tank on his own. They are beautiful but they get huge and he will most likely eat the others.
The angel fish isn't recommended but you may try with a knife fish all depends on you tank size to oh and for the discus. Alot of people may tell you to keep them in a single species tank and they need different water phlevels in their tank.
I have a Silver Dollar that I have had for about 7 years. Just in the 2 weeks he has been looking a little swollen and today I noticied that his eyes are bulging quite badly. I am guessing that he is probably old and sick and going to die. Is there anything I can do and do you think he is in any discomfort. I have him in a tank with 4 very large angels.
Eyes buldging are usually a water condition issue. You may have had a spike in one or more of your levels.
My silver dollars are about 5 years old and for the last three days one has been laying at the bottom of the tank and his eyes are cloudy looking. He seems to be breathing fast and is very disoriented when I disturb him...swims very fast and hits everything. I don't know what to do to help. I have been putting some melafix in the tank every day but have not done any water changes because I don't want to stress him out. Any advice would be appreciated very much. Thank you.
Check you water levels and definately do a water change. Do you have good water movement?
Yes lots of bubbles and the other fish are all doing good. How do I check my water levels?
How long will it takes before the eggs is ready to brake open for life? Sorry my englich is bad.
After the eggs are laid, if they are fertile, they will take about 3 - 4 days to hatch.
Please help, my dollars (6 in a 200litter tank) look as if they lay egges, small tiny white stuff thin like hair on the glass of the tank and on the pots in the tank, in the mornings earrly the pots is cleaned and after a hour or so you see on the pots this look like dust or fine sand lite, lite broun, what is it it goes now for 2 week + and I don't se any black swimming. How big is the eggs and fry after. Please help me. This is the 1st time my Dollars done that, the water is clear and the temp is right. I have 8 diffrent tanks with diffrent fish spesies. All Tropical. My Guppies an d Mollies is get babys a lot on time. I had the fishes now 1 year. My Widows had I put also now in seperit tanks it looks lite they will also strat briding. I also don't now nothing about them. Pleasse can you help me. I will glad if you can give me advise or photos about the drifferent fishes and how it looks when they start breading and how it looks. Thank you very much.Annatjie
I write a few minutes a go, now I see on the pots is white stuff look if they had a black spot inside. They lay between the lite brown stuff on the pots is this eggs and what will happen with them. In the evenings they are gone. Please help. Annatjie. Thank You.
I got 4 small silver dollars, about the size of silver dollars.... I tried to put them in with my 3 inch Tiger Oscar but he chased them all around and actually grabbed one in its mouth! I moved them to a different tank... Any suggestions on what I should do to try to get the silvers back with my Oscar? Oh and I got the silver dollars for a great price of 1.25 when my Oscar was about 10.
It depends on your oscars temperament. If it if relatively peaceful to larger fish than you can put then in when full grown. If your Oscar is very mean than I would not recommend putting them in at all
Unless your Silver Dollars are about the same size as your Oscar, or too large for them to fit in his mouth, they should not be housed with him! Silver Dollars are more peaceful than a large Cichlid such as an Oscar, and should be separately housed.
You really need bigger silver dollars. Sometimes if you feed the oscar heavily and make sure it is very full and slow, then try to re-introduce the silver dollars. Make sure the oscar remains full until he gets use to the idea of sharing his tank.
My dollar fish is getting eatin alive by my tiger striped fish! WHAT SHOULD I DO?
i have got a silver dollar, and it is always staying beside the filter away from other fish in the tank , is that normal, and do it need a companion?
It is recommended that a tnak be 75 gallons for a silver dollar - so how big is your tank?
My tank is small it is only 30 litres can a silver dollar fish live in it or it needs a larger tank?
Silver Dollars do like to be in groups. They do tend to be shy without some of its own kind.
Hi, how many of these can I keep in a 150 gallon tank with a red bellie pacu, 3 senegal bichirs, 4 firemouth cichlids, 4 feeder fish, 6+ mousquito fish, 6 banded dartersP.S. the silver dollars would be to distract the pacu from edible fish like the darters.
Having Firemouth cichlids in the aquarium is a bad idea if you want to introduce silver dollars! :/
Thank you for this! The information is very clear and seems prainssfoeol. It is very straightforward. I have been reading and researching different websites for hours and this is the most help I've gotten all night. I am a beginner with a 20 gal tank. I need all the help I can get, and clearly I need to upgrade my equipment a little.
Hi
Why have 2 of my silver dollars got black spots on their side and their tails gone black?
Is it the edges of tail that are turnong black or the entire tail?
Hi ,
Can I but bala shark with silver dollar fish ?!
You can, but be sure you have a large enough tank with decor, like plants, to provide hiding places. The Bala shark is a very nervous fish, and it will get very big.