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My daughter named hers Escaper due to the fact he got in to her brothers "Diego's" side of the tank. Then when I tried to get Escaper out safe and sound he kept getting out of the net lol.

Bought each of our kids bettas and bought a betta bow for the fish. Got a veiltail and a halfmoon double tailed plakat. About ended up with just one betta by the morning. Seems the veiltail is small enought to get through the divider and the side of the tank

8 days and still no sighting of fry except a one or two the first day of poes babies. Not sure what to do

I found a dead one while i was cleaning other then that nothing. But i did see a live one earlier so hopefully there are still some alive

Poe gave birth this evening and I pretty much missed the whole thing lol. Hopefully the little guys will make it through the cleaning tomorrow since my aquarium looks like crud. Hubby says though that by the time the girls give birth again I should have a small aquarium for a nursery plus the...

Well Poe gave birth tonight and I missed pretty much the whole thing. The good thing is I had already feed the fish tonight the bad thing is I need to clean the aquarium tomorrow. Hope the little guys don't get hurt or caught in the vacuum.

Don't feel bad I have 6 platies and my males seem to stick to their own. I have 3 pandas and 3 sunset red and the male panda only picks on the female pandas.

He's not just chasing them. They will be across the tank and he will charge at them. I think he's a little frustrated. I watched him last night after I posted this try to mate with my male panda who was swimming beside him....lol. I don't know if the females that are there won't hold still long...

I think your right after what i just saw.

I think I just figured out his problem and there isn't much I can do about it lol. He's going to have to work this out himself. I just hope no one gets hurt or dies before he works it out lol

My male sunburst red platy seems to all of the sudden gotten aggressive to my two sunburst red females. He seems to have no problem sharing space with my 3 pandas. I think i've seen at least one of the females tail slap him. Is this something I should worry about or should I just let the three...

I hope so. I was so looking forward to having fry in the aquarium thats why i never moved the girls.

Poe Butterfly All three of my sunset's with looks like Butterfly I'm not sure what's going on here. I've had at least 2 platies give birth and no fry spottings yet. No one should be hungry since they all get fed 2-3 times a day. I just hope our pleco isn't eating them or that they are...

Butterfly gave birth Friday or sometime Saturday, the thing is I can't find any fry wich can also be explained by the fact I didn't feed them between Friday morning and Saturday morning. But it looks like Try has given birth also as she don't look as chunky and square and more rounded today...

I honestly think Butterfly gave birth last night and I missed it. Her gravid spot is red again with no black spots in it. I don't see any little ones swimming around even after I place food in the aquarium. I stillnhave 3 pregnant platies though so I still have a chance. Just wish I had been...

I've only had the aquarium running almost 4 weeks with a fish-in cycle. So yea I'm still in the cycling process and yes its a brand new filter. The filtration system is external and is an aqua-tech 5-15 gallon that hooks to the back of the aquarium.

I've never done it before and want to try and save myself the problem of having to get a whole new unit. Is there a way I can without messing up my cycle. I know I can change the removable filter but I also want to make sure I get the algea that is bulding up in the unit out also. Oh plus with...

I'm not a cichlid master at all I've had them but the ones I had were omnivores. I did look all of the ones you said you were leaning toward and all but one is omnivore, that one is your acie cichlid. The Acie Cichlid is a herbivore and grows to 6". The yellow lab grows to 5" and is an...

Congrats. I'm still waiting on my four platy females to decide to drop....lol It should be about anytime now to 2 weeks considering I've had them for 4 weeks come this Sunday.

I'm trying to plan a 70 gallon tank for next year. I plan to put 9 platies, 5 Marbled hatchetfish (Still up for debate have to talk to hubby), 1 pleco and 3 Honey Gourami (Still up for debate have to talk to hubby) in the tank. So I don't want a large Corydora catfish in the tank. My choices...

I don't think the pleco is going to outgrow anything to soon. I've had him 3 years and he don't even touch the width of the tank yet. I know he's shrunk due to the tank but I'm really hoping he'll make it at least 1 more year. If you look at Butterfly and Poe's pregnancy journal in...

Sorry for the "be4" not everything would fit. A little history on me. I always had a 10 gallon aquarium with goldfish in it, so this is my first try at tropical fish. My parents never taught me to do a cycle before we placed fish in it, so that is something totally new to me but I think I'm...

I'm with everyone here. I'd start a new since you want to leave the tank going anyways with out adding more fish. This way you know for sure that there isn't anything in the filter, water or sitting on any of the decorations. I cleaned our 10 gallon and since I'm an impatient person and went...

A bridge would probably be easier and then if we have to move again make the transfer of aquariums easier to. I will have to see what the hubby has to say. Plus I will have to find a way to make cleaning the bridge easy and make sure it won't overflow the aquariums

Hubby and I were thinking about taking 2 aquariums and hooking them together with a tube. Then we were going to either fill them both with the same kind of fish. I know we will have to be careful cutting the glass and then finding an adhesive that won't hurt the fish even though it will be on...

I think she wants it for the 35 that she already has established. I think the 10 that is in a fishless cycle is going to be for guppys but I could be wrong.

I have 6 platies now and a pleco that I want to add to a 55 gallon in about less then a year it might be a 70 not sure yet. I want to add at least 3 more platies 1 male and 2 females but haven't decided color yet. We have 3 sunburst and 3 panda as of right now. Anyways I want more then just...

One of the sunset has either given birth or she is playing games with me lol. I can barely see her white spot that she had between her bottom fins lol. I also don't see any fry lol. And then again it could be my imagination. Everyone is eating including her and she ate at 7 am also so I don't...

I waited most of the day before I checked it

Im going with the responsibility of a tank and the fact that the family tank will probably have platies of both sexes in it. The kids want fish and I see no problem with them starting off with a 3 gallon tank with a betta in it. But if I know my daughter she will want more and a 10 gallon on a...

From what I've understood with livebreeder the female will get stressed from the unfamiliar and abort the pregnancy. But I've also read you can turn the lights out and give the female some food and this will help. If I were in this situation and wanted to try and keep the fry I would move the...

As a female platy gets closer to birth do the fry get pushed back further to the rear so that the mom squares? And another stupid ???? do platy moms give a bubble before they birth? If I don't hear anything tonight at least the last one will be answered if I find fry tomorrow or one of the...

I'll get there. I've only had these poor guys for 3 weeks as of yesterday, (so hopefully within the next 3 weeks someone will pop). I guess part of my problem is I want the baby fry but as soon as one drops and I mark it down and keep an eye on the others soon things will work out and I will...

Ok changed water again this morning and changed 50% of the water. Nitrate 20 Nitrite 0 Hardness: 75 Alkalinity: I want to say its 120-180 (I hate trying to determine colors on any test even my test tube ammonia at least I know if I see any green it needs to be changed soon.) PH: 7.8 (I Think)

Updating pics of Poe and Butterfly plus I'm hoping I got pics of the 2 female Sunburst that looks to me like they may be even carrying. One of these chunky Sunburst may be Nemo our male. I have such a hard time telling the three of them apart in pictures but I'm sure I also got a pic of Sunset...

Thanks Geoff, I'm hoping that I'll be able to at least get the sword and hair grass to actually grow. I think it will be something that platy fry will be able to hide in especially if it is the actual plant instead of a plastic plant.

Your right 40 is getting up there but Its still safe just pushing it. If it was day time i'd do it so I could add it to my outside plants without worrying about something happening or at least if my spouse was home

Checked ammonia and it is up again. Nitrates aren't extremly high and were in the 40 range will be changing water again tomorrow. Hopefully I haven't done anything wrong except bring the temp down some here and there. There has been no extra fish added although I am certain I have 2 out of 4...

Tomorrow I'm going to try and update my journal for Butterfly and Po (if I ever learn to spell it correct) and see if I can't compare them to each other and see if I see any changes.

Thanks Dr. Rob. I appreciate it. Hopefully next year I'll have to room to get some plants going.