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Focus, I love these colors. Sadly, I live in the US. Are they rare? Expensive? Are they show guppies? I'd love to learn more. Thanks, Wendy :D

This other one has yellow dots on his body and has some nice blue color. He was not willing to have his picture taken either. :angry:

I bought this guppy. It's body has blue, orange and yellow dots. But he would not stand still for a good picture. :lol:

I found some guppies at a local store. One has a large, orange tail and his body has blue, yellow and orange dots. The other has a blue tail and his body has yellow dots. I tried to take pictures and will post them with the aquarium picture posts. However, the fish would not stand still long...

Do you have stripes?

Miracle!!! In two days my tank went from being toxic from nitrites above two to zero!!!! The ammonia is zero and the nitrate is 20. Sadly, one of my catfish did not make it. :( But the rest look quite well. Thanks, Wendy :)

Miracle!! 24 hours later the nitrite is less than .25. :D :D I did add about 1/2 tablespoon of aquarium salt. Bigfish, I'll watch my catfish and won't add more salt. They seem fine. Thanks for the info. The guppies calmed down in the betta tank, they breathing slowed to normal rate...

Thanks Val-- I will call my fish dude tomorrow. I panicked and vacuumed the tank realizing that I had skipped it due to the babies. It is now 3 am my time and I woke up and decided to check the value and it has come down to 1.0. The guppies are looking much better in the other tank. the...

I just read in eskieluvr's post to lower nitrites: 1. less food 2. less fish 3. add cycle/bacteria 4. add salt So I'm going to add some aquarium salt.

:( :( :( :( I found some great guppies so I got 4. I put them in my 10 gallon tank. The tank has been running since the end of April. It had Mollies to start with until I discovered a baby. The adults were moved so it was just the baby. Then a friend gave me her only surviving baby...

I found some similar guppies at deltaguppies.com. But I am concerned about ordering by mail.

My picture from the book successfully found its way to the picture forum. I found some similar guppies for sale at deltaguppies.com for $30 a pair plus shipping. Has anyone ever ordered fish by mail? What problems might I encounter? Thanks, Wendy

The book is "Guppies, Mollies and Platys: A Complete Owner's Manual" by Harro Hieronimus and published by Barron's.

Okay, I took the pictures of the book and am going to try to post them in the picture forum. I could not figure out how to do it here, but it didn't seem possible. Perhaps I should invest in some computer books before I get more fish. -_-

LOL if you will but guppies.net brings you to guppies.com and vice versa. Either way, they are under construction. :fun: William, I will try to take a picture of the book but I have a new computer and will need to install my software,......and you know how good I am with computers. :D I...

Thanks Highnshy guppies.com is still under construction but it looks promising. :)

I am very sorry to hear of your problems. I just lost my tank of Mollies to dropsy. I tried treating the others after I discovered the cause in the first patient. One by one they all got sick over the following month. I thought they were so pretty in the store. I hope that there is not the...

Cutechic, I did a water change before I thought of the ice cubes and then the temperature dropped. My tropical tanks were at a good temperature so I only put the ice sticks in the goldfish tank. The local drug store had these refreezable plastic sticks for your drinks, and that is what I used...

And I thought I had too much time free time, sitting on the couch waiting for my foot to heal from surgery! :flowers:

I bought a book called "Guppies, Mollies, and Platys." There is a picture of a guppy on the cover that is turquoise blue/yellow/iridescent. In the back of my mind, I would like to have some. Has anyone seen any? Thanks :D

I am new to fish and bought serveral books. Pop-eye was a disease I read about. In "The Everything Tropical Fish Book," the description is just that the eyes appear to be bulging from their sockets. The book says to check the water quality and not to feed for a few days. In "Mollies...

Benny continues to act normal despite missing part of his fin. Sam was angry to be in a time out bowl. Being a teacher on summer vacation and having just had foot surgery, I'll begin the kungfu lessons immediately. Should be more enjoyable than daytime TV. :D

No Sam somehow got in with Benny. Squeezed between the glass top and divider. It was a definite attack. Poor Benny was beautiful this morning.

I needed to move my 5 gallon tank that is home to 1 betta(Sam) and a catfish(Tom). So I put the divider in my 10 gallon tank which held only one betta (Benny). I moved Sam and Tom into the big tank. Somehow Sam got in with Benny and attacked his fins. Of course I moved Sam into a bowl for...

I got some of the refreezable ice cubes and it worked quite well. The fish tried to eat them at first but then just ignored them. Good Luck Cutechic! :)

Thanks for everyone's input. I had surgery so I have not been home to check the site. The water cooler seems too expensive and complicated for me since I have 5 tanks. However, the ice in the bag led mee to an idea. I am going to purchase some of those refreezable ice cubes for your...

All of my tanks are 90 degrees. The air temperature is in the 90s as well. I am going to do a water change and add cold water. Any other suggestions? I am too poor to get central air. :(

New to fish, I have to agree with everyone. I had a betta who never moved and seemed sad so I put him in a 10 gallon tank and he was so happy. :D I got another betta for a 5.5 gallon tank and he hides all day in the plants. I have a third betta in a betta bowl (.5 gallons) who swims around...

Thanks again to all! We decided to put them in the community tank so they would have the space. So far, so good. They seem to be calmer. The red tailed sharks seem to patrol the tank. :)

The red tailed sharks get along fine. The community seems very happy. The elephant noses hide all day. One hides under a rock bridge, the other in a "log" decoration. The one in the log has not been seen in days, so we were worried he was stuck. We removed the log today and he seemed fine...

Thank you to all for you input. I will pass in the information onto the science teacher. It will help us decide how to make the summer arrangments. Of course, we are functioning on donations and our own pockets to fund this hands-on science room. Definitely a bigger tank for next year...

As part of our 8th grade curriculum, the science room has several tanks. A 55 gallon community tank A 15 gallon convict tank (egg-layers) A 5.5 gallon guppy tank (livebearer) A 10 gallon hospital/breeding tank and a 10 gallon schooling tank In the schooling tank, we have five small tiger...

Hi! I also have a 10 gallon tank with 4 goldfish. Now I am a horse person who just got into fish six weeks ago. But I read that goldfish should be in water that is about 65 ish. At 80 F they are more susceptible to disease. Also oxygen levels decrease in warm water, now why this effects...

Thanks again to all! My Mollie clearly had dropsy and was suffering so I helped her to fish heaven. The ammonia levels are about 1.0 ish. I did a water change yesterday and will do a good vacuuming job/water change today. My aggressive male is still separated by a divider. I think I leave...

As my day of research and watching has gone on, I have realized the problem is serious. Sadly, my work now turns to wht is best for the rest of the tank, 3 Mollies. :sad:

My mollie is doing acting strange as well. She is standing on her nose!?! I recently gave the tank some frozen brine shrimp and changed their food to a livebearer mix with tubifex worms. Until I saw your post, I did not consider food; however, mine is clearly sick. I did not see this tank...

I love all animals but am scared of cats. I am owned by a thourghbred (Lowie), a dog (Kipper) who is a stray from Puerto Rico and a guinea pig (Hershey). I got a goldfish when on an expetition with my friend who is a science teacher. She has two 10 gallon tanks, one 5.5 gallon, one 20 gallon...