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first are they two males or male/female? if there two males they will calm down a little over time,but if a betta flares too much it will have a shorter life than normal and normal isnt very long anyway. if its for breeding then they will calm down. Betta's are very quick learners and know that...

i'd say the one on the left is male and the other a female that said i'm not big into rams

This is a good question I would say there all dyed but that said i think parrotts are a sub-species and cant be found in the wild so colouring the fish may have been done with many coss breeding programmes.I also was going to buy a couple a few months ago and they were selling them off a £3.50...

despite all the ph testing and such. I've never known guppy's be that fussy over the water conditions and to lose 3 very qickly to me suggests that some jealous fish is eating them or maybe a few jealous fish. I appreciate that people do take ph very seriously when it comes to guppy's but at the...

The only thing i can add to this is just to warn you that ALL CICHLIDS are aggressive it's just that some more than others.Any fish trader who sells you a pair should know they will proberbly breed and when they do they will attack everything in sight,and even if there not breeding the females...

My favorite is a large marine tank I have the not so common situation of having both,however my marine tank is 1ft bigger. when ever anyone visit's me there interest is instantley taken with the marines rather than the tropical.That said i find it a little boring to watch the marines after a...

I have had a load of kribs now and i have only left two batches with the parents the first they eat the eggs when the were almost free swimming and the second batch got to about 6 days old then the parents finished them off. Now i suspect that the reason for this is i have a few rosy barbs that...

IMO guppy's are very easy to breed as are all livebearers.possibly with the exception of swordtails who eat there fry unless you can monitor the birth. platties are very easy bordering on impossible not to have success. A friend of mine tried to supply an ifs with mollies about 10 year ago and...

i think like snowy angel said there are runts to every litter as there are to every batch of fry! All the books i have on keeping or breeding tell you to cull the weak smaller fish but i dont feel easy doing this and i tend to give the smaller fish a chance to grow. The only thing i could...

Hi all for a long time know i've been breeding black molly's. Now for the first time i'm having a crack at dalmation/silver molly's. My female has been getting larger and larger for weeks,now finally she is starting to go black just behind the anal fin so she's getting gravid obviously. The...

To me there is no comparison Betta's are a the best fish around and i can't imagine there are too many people that disagree. That said until recently i considered guppy's a very average fish that requires little skill and little work for very little reward,but about a year ago i got my first(in...

not been on for a full day now almost and didn't see your defence of me till now sailfingirl and for that Many Many thanks. I am now trying to think of another thought provoking dabate but at the moment i feel a little tender so give me a little time.

well Konrad I'm 33 have my own house and 3 children why the hell am i going to listen to you? how old are you anyway,i reckon about 5 or 6? if you were to say to me "do you think i was born yesterday" my reply would be "no i would guess the early hours of this morning" Get a life

well wrs it has nothing to do with it i was just saying. and as for danio i reckon he's about 12 years old and boy does he act like it. And to you sailfingirl i wouldn't say anything about southerners because i love all england and am very proud of it.But if push come to shove and there was a...

i have a few tanks and feeding methods are different. in my community tank i feed them flake in the early morning and at night i feed them a mix of dry tubifex and daphnia and every saturday and sunday i give them a bag of bloodworm(live). The ones i breed i only give bloodworm twice a day. But...

No i dont i know we are friends. i think it all started when danio threated me physicaly with extreme and brutal violence and called me a thick mancunian(thats people from manchester) i could have got him kicked off because inchworm asked me if it was a racial slur and i said it wasn't i just...

You keep saying keep it healthy. Look through my individual posts and you'll see that it's other people are causing the rift. I have held my composure like the true noble gent i am. so there

Do you always live life on the edge of your seat phantom?

How far is too far? And how will you ever know if you dont get there? I do use a lot of tact with this forum because there can be a lot of children on. If you had seen some of the other forum's with a more adult feel to them you could see the power of the wolf truly unleashed! However whatever i...

I AM A VERY NICE AND A VERY HANDSOME PERSON. WHO IS AMAZING TO LOOK AT AND A CHARATER THAT MELTS THE COOLEST LADY'S HEART. i just love winding people up and starting a healthy yet fun debate like this.

sorry about what i said i was teasing. No good luck seriously. i think i would also like to work in one but the only problem is the money. i know if your well respected by a local independent petshop you can get good money but i knew a girl who was assistant manger at petsmart and she was on...

so ya think i'm mad eh! are you a breeder? if so you must have had the same problem as me

what do you want a sweetie?

i'd be lying if i said i had not. it's always been a dream of mine since a child. BUT! if i did then i proberbly join a cow forum and get people crying on at me about the terrable way they kill cows!

dont be a softy interested! ;-) you can use any variety of heavy flat tool. the only thing i wouldnt do is use my head because that would hurt like hell. But i just think the other suggestions. Oh yeh like i carry a cannister of c02 in the shed or have some tub of chemicals just hanging around...

i've tried to contact suppliers and fish farm. but they claim they themselves are out of stock. I absolutley stand by the tiltle of this thread it is a conspiracy and i think most breeders such as myself proberbly would know more than the non breeders simply because usually female fish are far...

I only started this forum because someone just before i did it asked what the best method of killing a sick fish is. Since then people have just had a pop at me and studied the post secondly. Now all i'm hearing is stupid stupid suggestions like clove oil,freezer,c02 and one guy i think asked us...

No this is not about killing fish just because you feel like it,it's culling the terminally ill fish so no more suffering has to be endured. And i was just saying that why get a mixture of anything when the quickest and most cleanest way is to deliver an almighty blow to the fish---thus killing...

It does seem that not everyone has problems with this subject,but if anyone in england fancy's putting it to the test and just phone a couple of your own ifs's and just ask if they have any females of either a few of the ones i mention or even some of your own and just see how many they say they...

we would'nt cope sailfin girl we would prosper(for a while anyway)

it is peaceful here isnt it were like just one big happy family here and i maybe the blacksheep of it but i know you all love me

your right but i honestly cant find the fish i named ,i phoned prectically all the lfs within 20 miles or so and they all came back with the same "so only males at the moment" i suppose it's an effective way to deal with potential threats to the buisness side of it. i once had the owner of the...

thats right different fish different people etc... from the first day i got tropical's on a sunny day in 1985 i have always kept zebra's but i dont know why! i never feel my tank is complete until i have 6 or so zebra danio's in there. but to look at there very unspectacular.

whats up interested how have i lost you?

I dont understand why that is but thanks for agreeing

Hi Can i just say that through my experiences of breeding fish never before have i seen such a lack of females in all my lfs. mine have non of the following females and havent had ffor a long time. BETTA SPLENDENS 3 SPOT GOURAMI'S DWARF GOURAMI'S GUPPY'S PEARL GOURAMI'S KRIBS FIREMOUTH'S...

hey MAM you'll have no arguements from me i agree to look at they are quite interesting but i do likes me community tanks and as i have 5 tanks in total running 1 x marine 1 x tropical community and 3 x breeding tanks on the go i cant keep a puffer tank even if i wanted,which i don't

i'd say so does mine its so primal isn't it i'm glad you dont hate betta's

i do smile,all the time infact.Almost to the point of looking simple!

i will