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If I had the resources, I would have taken the tank apart, cut down the length past the chips and recaulked it myself. But, I just don't feel safe doing it when the tank is this big-nor do I have the time to do it at the moment. God only knows, I'd be the person to come home and find a flooded...

I was mulling around an old thrift shop in the area and happened upon this old gal in a back corner under some clothing piles. Did a quick once over, haggled the owner down from $150 to $60 and a four day money-back warrantee so that I could take it home, check for leaks and bring it back if I...

I think the difference between a wild guppy and the domestic wild-type you can usually buy is that wilds are, well, from an actual river or water source! :shifty: However, rather your fish is a true 'wild' or a domestically bred fish is a mystery. Wild guppies (from the wild), feeders and...

Best bet to scoring free, mostly healthy fish at any Petco is to find out what days they restock. My local one restocks it's tanks every Wednesday. Go in in the afternoon and eye all the livebearer tanks and ask for any babies you find. A hospital tank is a perfect place not only to raise them...

I have a strange collection in my big community. I have unknown numbers of guppies-all ages and size-with a lonely little cherry barb that's soon moving to a new home, one common pleco, one lonely little Clown Loach, one Inca Gold snail, and 1 red dragon VT Beta (doesn't seem to swim fast enough...

Some updated pictures from the last time I posted. Lost most of my fancy guppies from an unexpected tank crash. Still not sure what happened, but I managed to save one male. The last six pictures are of my wild-types. The female is the mother of the males I posted on the last page of this...

There wasn't any of that in the fish. They would start to show signs of that head tilting within an hour of one another and their mouth would be extended and immobile. They weren't swollen, but I could have sworn I caught one looking a little glassy eyed or foggy, that's what made me think it...

Well. I made the mistake of bringing home a new fish. I've been SO careful for the last half year with my half-black green/blue guppies that I was pretty smitten with myself. I had two gorgeous males with nearly identical colors/patterns and five, nice, dark, large bodies female relatives of the...

It could also depend on the breeding of your fish. Example, mine are mixed and grow at a slow rate, but develop colors within the end of the first week while a friend of mine has guppies that double in size biweekly and at three months they're JUST start to show color. Sometimes you just need to...

Look at your food and see if it has any color enhancers. I start feeding my fry super crushed flakes that are high in nutrients/vitamins/omega fatty acids with natural color enhancers and they start showing color in their tails after the first week of birth. In my experience, my fry grow...

Nice choice of fish. Swordies are always a plus for endless hours of entertainment and-best of all-stress relief. I am REALLY love'n that rainbow chip looking gravel you have there! o____o .. I just can't stop staring at it.

Thank you very much for the input. The two youngsters came out of one of a pair of green-gene females I happened to find at the LFS nearest to me. I had never seen anything with a hint of actual green in it within two hundred miles of my location, so I snagged the two and now I'm just riding out...

Thanks! I have so many females like the one in the picture that I don't know what to do with them. Out of about 20 babies, only two turned out to be male. Lost the two mothers, unfortunately, but all of their daughters have outdone them in color/size. ^^ I'm expecting some fry at the end of this...

I'd like to say that all of the guppies in my tank are mystery fish, mostly because I'm no breeder and don't have the experience or the know-how to tell the difference between color/pattern strains. Could anybody possibly tell me what I may have here? I'm sure they're all irresponsibly bred...

My one and only mature male. Fell in love with his colors, not so much a part of my collection as he was a play on the old heart strings. I have no idea what 'color' he is or what variety-probably an all around mutt, but I suppose he serves his purpose well. =] A juvenile female from the last...

I've never personally seen any Endlers in this area, as I'm in a somewhat remote location 2.5 hours from Seattle and 2.5 hours from Spokane. It's nearly impossible to get any fish in this area unless they come from a local breeder or were the local Petco mishap-in which case it's impossible to...

Compiled pictures- 'Wild Guppies' / Feeders Creamsicle balloon molly, I believe? Dalmatian Lyre tail female..right after she shed near to 100 fry in less then 45 minutes. She remained saggy in the belly until the end of her days and never produced me any more fry. Out of the lot she gave me...

With guppy fry males, you will notice certain colors they will show develop first. With my batches of fry, the males always start with pink that eventually goes to orange and then red. Then they start with the greens, then blues and eventually they start developing what ever black and white...

I second that. I pulled my best breeding female from the 15 cent 'feeder' tank. She is the biggest bodied 'feeder' I have ever seen and has produced me some amazing colored males. Best purchase I have ever made.

Feels like somebody took a chopstick tip and softly, but quickly, poked you in the finger.

Mine has never been ill and he's about that color. Keep an eye on him.

It's a 'wild' guppy. I breed them as a side project to try and strengthen their natural colors. Here are some compiled pictures of the males from my last batch. As you can see from the picture, even males in the same batch can have a BIG difference in color quality and expressions. What you have...

Don't ever doubt the aggression of the rogue female. I had a sorority of five and the biggest female decided to go and gut the second in command. I came home to my prized green female laying in the corner with her entrails hanging out. Poor dear, I scooped her into a cup without much fuss and...

Looks like a common Pleco to me. If you breed plecos or have many you can start to tell them apart by the individual markings on their underside.

I’m an Early Childhood Educator. I work mainly with 3-11 year olds. I have been working for St. Paul’s Lutheran private school for over a year now and I love the children as if they were my own. I was always a single child and constantly pestered my parents for brothers and sisters-never got...

I know the Crucian Carp changes body shape, but as far as a metamorphosis goes all I can think of is the bignose, whalefish and tapetail-which are all the same species of fish, but the young, males and females all look different. The only problem I'd see is that they usually habit deep ocean...

I used to live along one of the canals in Miami (Dade county, on 199th street) and when I was 13 I decided I was going to go fishing... with cheese as my bait. I caught something that I thought looked like a piranha; I freak out and ran screaming all the way home with this HUGE, scary looking...

Here are pictures of the males from my last Wild Guppy drop when they developed their colors. You can see the obvious differences even in the same drop. I just had another drop from the same female three weeks ago and have about 18 fry that are growing and eating voraciously. I can't wait to see...

Look for the white egg spot near the fish's bottom. Depending on how old it is-providing it's not very young-that will tell you.

Ah see, I would go to a petsmart over a petco any day. Mom used to work at the grooming department for petco and she just told me that they were miserable in all of their departments. Every Petco I have ever been in was a disgrace, but I've found better odds at petsmarts. I don't know...Maybe...

Oh man.. I just refrained from posting an enormous rant. Let me just give you a synopsis: I have NEVER had a good experience at Petco, regardless of what area or state I have been in. The employees-were they not human beings just doing their job and worth decent respect-would otherwise be...

I looked around the net for a while, couldn't find anything concerning ornamental fish in this area. I did find some debates and laws about fish farms for human consumption, but then I found a page talking about PETCO "Going Blue". Biggest crock I have ever seen...

The local and ONLY live fish store within hours of my house informed me today-when I was in DIRE need of Maracyn and Maracyn 2-that the store recalled their entire supply of aquatic antibiotics. I was, honestly, horrified. At the worst moment in my aquatic keeping life, the only store within a...

Did you cycle the 125l before you put the fish in, or did you just dump in the mature media and the water and call it a go? I would suggest regular water changes to see if the smell clears up; it could be caused by over crowding or a lack of proper bacteria that would break down the amonia...

My largest female Betta was starting to get egg plump this week and I kept up her usual diet of pellets/Betta friendly tropical fish pellets/a few blood worms every now and again and then the weekly pea + a day or two of fasting. I’ve done this routine for nearly half a year with her and the...

Ah okay, well I suppose only time will tell. It could be that each strain from every established breeder has different growth traits. It's all up in the air as of now, but I'm willing to wait either way. The largest of the fry-a female but all looks-is getting huge and has several patches of...

Well darn.. The lyre tail expression wouldn't happen to be recessive would it? I really don't know what the fathers of these fry were.

I've wondered for a while now, and couldn't really find any clear answer, what classifies a Betta as a 'dragon'?

Long story short, this past spring I rescued two heavily pregnant mollies from some pretty nasty and over-crowded conditions. I know for sure that one of them was a Lyre-tail female and I strongly believe the second female was as well but I can't remember for sure. The second I put them in...

I've yet to see a 'striped' betta, those are stress/fear stripes. My iridescent female gets them if I move her favorite rock across the tank; they can get them for serious reasons just as they can get them for silly ones, and they just show up and go away based on the fishes mood-not through...