From the article: Silver Dollar
Have you kept a Silver Dollar? If so, share your experiences about care, habitat, feeding and breeding of Silver Dollars. Your knowledge could help other owners! Share Your Experiences
Tame Silver Dollars
- I have had my 2 silver dollars about 6 years and didn't realise how tame they are 1 in particular will come and take food out of your fingers and they both know when feeding time is as they practicually dance around in the tank until fed, the kids love it
- —Guest Judith
Silver Dollar fish experience
- Bought 3smll SD 06/98 for 30gal tank, skinny died 2003, BIG 5" jumped off aquarium died 2006, 1 left in '09 has grown to 5". The past 3 summers it stops eating for months then late August begins to eat again. I keep wondering how much loner it'll live. It's by itself in a bare aquarium.
- —Guest alfiechuidian
The skittish giant
- I got my dollar fish from friends. It is already 4-5 inches in length, and looks big compared to my guppies and zebra danios! It does great in a community tank, although, like Snooble said, it is skittish. It seems it would enjoy a long tank with plenty of swimming space, although most of the time, the dollar fish likes to hang out in one spot.
- —Guest Meehow
2 Silver Dollars or DURONG.
- My wife calls our 2 SD fish DURONG, thats what they call them in Jarkarta, they are related to Pirahna, We have them in with 4 Black moor dragon eyed fancy goldfish. They like to patrol the 40 gal tank, but are very skittish, they jump every time someone walks by. But they also seem very comfortable, and on occasion will feed from the surface, and man are they quick! they like to hide together being a silk plant and then go on their rounds. They won't be bullied by the spazzy Fancys, they nibble back. They wouldn't eat for the first week after we got them but then ate normally after that. We give them a little boiled spinach every now and then and they will swim around with a little piece in their mouths and sometimes share it. Though they are tropical, our water is about 72-78, mostly so they do well and the Fancys do well too. I want to get them another silk plant that is tall and spiny, and maybe a piice of driftwood big enough for everybody. We have 2 loaches too, and a yo-yo.
- —SNOOBLE
