Recent content by M4ndy

Thanks so much for all the help. I've been feeding them a bit extra this week and will clean tank before I go then just leave them for a week. The mollie fry are looking a bit bigger so hopefully they'll be okay. (Mrs Mollie is starting to look fat again so I may come back to more fish than I...

I'm afraid I was a bit stupid when I bought this tank! It is a complete unit with heater, filter and light all on one plug, you can get the same tank with a built in timer but I didn't realise it would be a problem at the time! :blush: Thanks for all the advice, I think I'll have to leave the...

I have 60 L planted tank with 4 danios, 2 mollies, 5 bandit corys and 3 mollie babies (about 2 weeks old) I'm off on holiday for 8 days. My tank is a complete unit and the light doesn't have a timer. Should I leave it on or off. I'll get loads of algae if I leave it on but will the plants die...

The fry seem to be OK with the big fish. I've only got one tank so they haven't got much choice! They do get chased a bit but are quite good at hiding and there's lots of plants for them to hide in. The mollies have lots of algae to pick at too which I think keeps them occupied. I'm sure if they...

Thanks. Here is mollie Mum and one of her fry. The chap in LFS said that as I bought Mum and Dad from same tank of similar coloured fish I had more chance of the fry being true to colour. I guess maybe it's a bit too late for that!

60L tank. 4 zebra danios, 5 bandit corydoras, 2 mollies and 3 babies! I've only had my mollies for 1 week and they seem to have had babies. I suddenly noticed 3 in there and they seem to be doing OK. The grown ups chase them a bit but there are quite a few plants and they seem to be hiding...