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Ah, okay. Thank you.

Oh. So what does it look like when they have a gravid spot?

How long has the tank been running?

Okay, I'm confused (no surprise there), but is this the same fish in both photos? Just with a more darker coloration? I feel like I need some more context for this to make sense to me.

I believe you can use clove oil. But I'm not 100% on that.

True, but something seems more 'official' about having it on paper. Plus you can't beat the glossy photos!

I thought it was $28 a magazine and I'd agree. But $28 for a year sounds like a good deal. Maybe I'll consider it...

You can't mix mollies/platies/guppies with goldfish. Goldfish need cooler water than mollies/platies/guppies.

Looks like baby plant roots. I've got some on my plants as well.

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QUESTION I've got a 40 gallon tank that was used for my bearded dragon while he was at my parents house. Can I use the sand that is in his enclosure for a fish tank if I set it up for a fish tank? I remember buying it off Amazon and it was reptile sand. It feels smooth to me.

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I feel like the fresh and perfect water parameters might be shocking his system. But that's just my opinion. Might have been better to do small but frequent water changes to give less of a shock to his system. But I'd listen to someone with more experience than me.

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Honestly I feel like if you wait a bit, let them get nice and hungry then feed them, they'll eat the pellets.

I'd get the betta out of that tank. It's better suited for a five gallon all to its own. And yea, that's a pretty heavily stocked tank.

You need to add more. They are schooling fish and need to have like 10-15 in a group. Although I also believe that your tank *might* be overstocked.

Fair. I've never understood a quarantine tank to begin with. I always thought it was weird to keep a fish separate while treating it since I'd feel bad for the fish. Someday I'll set up a quarantine tank. I've got two extra tanks lying around.

Fair enough. I wasn't aware that it is okay to have it lightly decorated. I always thought keeping it bare helped prevent anything from getting in the substrate or on the plants that could impact another fish added later.

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What are your water parameters? How hard or soft is your water and what is the pH? That might help people figure out what fish would work for a bottom of the tank fish.

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I will leave this to someone more experienced. What are your water parameters? Do you have hard or soft water. That dictates what fish you can keep. You can find this from your local water source website. I think quarantine tanks are suppose to be void of items, but again, I'll leave this to a...

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Most shark bites are mostly test nibbles as when we are out in the open, we look like food. But we don't taste like food so they stop biting us.

I mean, most likely. I just don't know what kind of research. Wish I could have helped out though. That would have been awesome.

I was in Cape May, NJ one year and went to the beach after the lifeguards left and that's when all the fisherman come out to play. Watched a research team catching sharks and got within inches of their catches. It was so cool to see. I forget why they were catching the sharks. I just knew it...

Yea, I know in the US I think they are mostly illegal due to being able to thrive in our waterways. They might be found in some places for food, but I think they have to be dead in order to be sold.

Legit anytime I've seen a dead fish in my tank I immediately do a big water change after testing the parameters to make sure it wasn't a spike.

I feel like snakeheads are illegal to keep now.

Sounds interesting. May have to look that up. Looked it up and they are too big to be in my tiny thirty gallon. Sigh. It was a pretty cool looking fish.

Saw it at PetCo and didn't see a tag for it. Curious to know what it is.

I'll add my two cents, but I think you need more corydoas and more tetras as they are both schooling fish. If anyone else has something add I'd go with what they say first. Also, water parameters are also helpful.

Awesome! Thank you for the input. I'm debating letting the cories pass on as I can't seem to keep them alive while it seems like the mollies and platies are doing great.

Opinions? I just saw some white skirted tetras at PetCo and I'm debated getting some. Would they work in my thirty gallon tank and would they get along with the mollies, platies, and cory cats? Also, they had two betta fish in with other fish and I felt so bad for the betta. I almost bough two...

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