Silver Dollar Fish Care & Tank Mates

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Silver dollar fish care (simplified)

German blue rams, danios, rummy noses, neons, clown loaches, corys, bn plecs, barbs and.. yes... a goldfish (and he's doing fine!).

I've looked up the required parameters for each of them, and decided about 6.8 would be ideal.

Getting the temperature and ph right before putting the water in the tank would be a real pain!

FYI: 6.8 is not ideal for your goldfish, and it's likely to grow large enough to eat most everything in your tank except the clown loaches. Why not give him his own tank or tub? You have the perfect pH right out of the tap for him.

OK, I'll look to rehome the goldfish. I'll eventually have to rehome the clown loaches, too, but that's a while away.

I use a product called "ph down," it's a white powder, I don't remember who made it or what is in it.

So, for people with big tanks trying to get their water right before it goes in the tank... How do you do it? What's your workflow, equipment, process? How long does it take you?

Ph down is a acid. Its a poor choice to use as it has zero buffer. It will rise again and then you have crashes that occur. The proper way would be with Ro and mix tap in to a % or reconstitute the RO using buffered additives

For my reef tank I always make get ready the day before. I will add salt and small pump and mix that then mix any ferts I need and then I'll put a heater in and let sit all night with a heater and pump.

My advice is get a small circ pump and spare heater and then mix your ph down and heat the water over night.My ph is whatever it is. I only worry about it when i need to use meds. I know its high (8.2) but all my fish dont seem to care. Seems odd that you are struggling to get the ph correct for the fish but are ignoring temp requirements. That goldfish is a cold water species and the rest are tropical. The fish adapt to ph levels because in nature different areas of the same body of water have different ph levels. I have tested some of my fishing lakes and find back coves have drastically different ph levels than areas near beaches.

Fish from your LFS are usually raised in the local Ph and are not use to the natural Ph causing undo stress.

[KattWuzHeer]

I saved 2 of these fish from Walmart, they had absolutely no fins what-so-ever. I have them in a tank with 3 other fish (2 Corey CatFish and one Betta Fish) once I upgrade to an even bigger tank I'm going to save more from Walmart. Thank you for the info!

[NeonAera]

I just bought six more of these guys. Currently in quarantine. Great video on them, man.

[fervent_flame]

just got mine and he's nice and he's doesn't get startled that much so yay!

[nathalieblokken]

Hi love the look of this fish so beautiful can i also put small fish like platys and tetra fish with them?

[dylanunderwood]

I have a 65 gallon tank and I am going to do a nice size silver dollar tank. I haven't totally decided on tank mates but I am thinking about a blue and a gold gourami to start, later followed by pictus catfish. Think they will make a nice tank. Any suggestions on the school size or other compatible tank mates? Thanks.

[chicothesilentguy]

I have Silver Dollars in my 29 gallon tank, with 9 different African cichlids, 1 Puffer, and 1 Parrot cichlid and have no problems with them . Eventually I will get a bigger tank in the future, but now they are okay ...

[johnm]

Love these but I was told if I had live plants in the tank they will eat them =- true or false? Thanks!

[stonedmalone]

I ordered dwarf spotted silver dollars and put them in a 55g (5 of them) they only grew up to 4 1/2 inches in about 1 year and stopped growing. Is this normal for dwarfs or should they get bigger?

[Dontmesswithmeplease]

I went to an aquarium store, I saw these fishes and asked him"How much for these piranha's?"He told me they were dollar.

[theemotionless]

This is my first time keeping fish for company, and I really wanna make sure I take good care of them. I've been doing background search of these lovelies and although it's recommended to have min 5 in a go, I got 2 instead but is that okay? And I've noticed that they have been rather stressed since I got them home and I really wanna let them be comfortable. I suspect it might be because they're a little squeezy in the tank now but I'm gonna get a bigger one for them.

I live in a tropical country, with clean drinkable tap water, hopefully the water quality is decent for my silver dollars too, since it does tick some of the boxes for keeping the silver dollars healthy.

Please let me know what other things I should take note of because I've tried asking the aquarium owner but he wasn't helpful at all; giving vague answers such as "just feed them and change their water regularly and they'll be fine". So you can imagine how quite lost I am now.

[lalrohluinuseni]

I have like this fish also but i dont have air pump how will i do please tell me you are a good boy

[PoojaPandey_MissDecember]

hey.. I want someone to answer it asap as I am worried about my 1 dollar fish.. it's like 1 yr old and today I found that it's not able to move properly and is trying to swim and bumping here n there inside the aquarium.. when I opened the tank, I think it got frightened and jumped out... it's still alive .. but I have no idea wts wrong because I have a pair of it and the other one is doing pretty well.. plz help me out asap

[destinyspetprojectdogrescu]

I just "adopted" a 40 gallon aquarium with 4 silver dollars. These fish have small light black spots on them. They are not all silver like the ones pictured. They are healthy and happy but seems like they might not be Silver Dollars at all. What do you think. I will try to get a picture to show you.

[lydiajimmerson]

i am going to get some silver dollars and i was wondering how to breed them, and know how to see if they are pregnant please let me know as soon as possible

[hollyanderson]

So how big do they get and can you keep a school of 5 or 6 in a 29 gallon

[funnysht]

Lol got one of these today and thought it was a piranha

[BigAl-ue]

I have a question. Could a school of silver dollars go with live bearing fish? You know the usual molly, sword tail, platy, and guppy.

[yeahyeahsure]

hey there I'm just a beginner with keeping fish I have a 120liter tank or 32 gallon I have set up at the moment with 6 neon tetras but I would love silver dollars 1 is my tank 2 small
and 2 will they just eat all my tetras ? and other recommendations of bigger fish that will keep with tetras ? cheers

[crestfallenmoon]

they're more related to pacus btw and nive video it was very nice to watch :)

[kasonruiz]

I know that this video is from a long time ago but I was wondering I have a 20 gallon with 3 silver dollars and will upgrade tanks soon could I put a angle fish with my silver dollars