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A lot depends on your desires Nofishing!. Acrylic is easily scratched but is crystal clear until you mess up and scratch it. Real glass does not scratch as easily but is not quite as clear when it is new and free of defects. Your own situation is just that, it is you own. You need to decide what...

I would put it on the shelf. Purigen is a strong chemical filter which is not really needed in any functioning mature tank. If you have a filter failure and must survive a few weeks until the new filter matures, maybe you would have a need for it. In that situation put it in the last possible...

I don't know what to suggest to you WD. Maybe you could find a short piece of rigid tubing to force that small section into a straight line with no kinks. So far I have not had to go that far.

Saboy, there is no way that I will try to judge your situation from here, across the Atlantic from you in the US. You must decide for yourself whether or not your floor is solid enough to carry any tank. If you are not certain, your best bet would be to ask a person who is technically qualified...

I have no idea about costs where you live, it really varies a lot, but I favor a tube with a 5500K spectrum temperature. It is close to a noonday daylight spectrum. If you prefer a yellower spectrum, try a 3000K tube. If you prefer a bluish spectrum, try a 10,000K spectrum tube. Color spectrum...

I really like the noise levels from my Rena air pumps. They can be adjusted as needed to suit your needs and are very quiet. The only down side that I know of is that they are a bit expensive to buy.

Try Craigs list and aquabid. Both often give you good deals on equipment. Failing that have a look at your local clubs. Clubs hold auctions as fund raisers and a great deal can often be had there on equipment. The only hard part is waiting for the next auction. Auctions are seldom held more than...

Once you have lots of different sized fry in a tank, the adults will almost always ignore them completely. It is like the older fry teach the adults that there is no point to chasing them and the smallest of the fry benefit from that training.

My female adult molly with her day old fry. What do you think about minimum size? Of course she was the only adult present and she was well fed. This is the same fry 38 days later, shortly before the next drop.

Nice looking endlers that you have there Baccus. It looks like they made that trip OK and have settled into your tank. That is quite a trip in the middle of winter.

A platy less than about 2 cm is far too small for your LFS to consider. They need to be able top sell the fish to another fish keeper and that means fish big enough to judge easily. Your LFS has no place to keep your fish and bring them along to be big enough to sell. That tank space is better...

You have a common problem of any fish keeper that takes good care of their fish, whether live bearer or egg layer. You end up with more fish than you have room to rear properly. When you have that problem it is the best kind of problem. It means that you take care of your fish well enough to...

I like them too AFM. These are some pictures of mine, blown up to an incredible amount, which made the pictures a bit grainy. Male Female Female being followed by a pygmy cory

I have never had any trouble with ghost shrimp eating fry. On the other hand cories, which are generally little threat to other fish, have been known to relish fry that are laying on the bottom of the tank.

Welcome to the forum Fantasmoe. You can reach my thread easily by following the link in my signature area.

I am going to agree with fluttermoth. That does look like a late developing male to me too.

Please see my thread on My Molly's Progress. I have pictures in that thread that should help you understand what squared off means. You can reach the thread from a link in my signature area.

If your new fish is eating well and seems happy, just let him continue. He would face incredible odds if he wanted to engage in mating activity, but as a single fish you can meet all of his needs by keeping his tank clean and providing him with food that he can find. On a side note, I had a dog...

Often, not always, a bent spine like that reflects less than ideal water conditions while the fish is maturing. It can be quite subtle. Even if you do all of the expected water changes and such, the extremely high mineral content water that is seen in places like So Cal can still make a tank's...

As fluttermoth has said, the typical endler available in the trade is typically an endler/guppy cross, not a true endler. Unless you can get collection data on your female endler or know something else about it, chances are good that you are dealing with a cross. In that case it will not matter...

Guppyrookie, all joking aside, all newborn poeciliid livebearers look like females but their gender is determined by chromosomes, not temperature. Things like temperature, pH and even the existing genders of other fish do indeed influence some fish, but not our common livebearers. Our common...

I have a tank about that size with a breeding colony of wild swordtails in it. I always keep 1 adult male and 2 or 3 adult females but right now I have 3 separate generations of fry and juveniles in the tank. The latest drop looks like about 20 surviving fry from less than a week ago. I also...

how can you tell that both the fish are pregnant? i was trying to look for any of the signs i read about on the forum but i didn't see any (black spot, squared off?) It is easy really to know that your females will be producing fry. You have female livebearers that came from a mixed tank of...

Check out giant danio as a possible ID for that last fish. A platy female can carry sperm packets and use them for 6 months or so after her last contact with a male. With a drop every 4 to 6 weeks and an average drop size of around 30 fry, that can really add up. It is a species survival...

Your fish is a far better judge than you are about their gender. Swordtails often include a fair number of "sneaker" males. A "true" male will sniff them out and ignore them as potential mates. That word sniff is quite literal. All freshwater fish urinate constantly to control their water...

Your pictures: and The homemade fry trap looks just fine to me. You can expect a drop of around 20 to 35 fry from a platy but unless you are very good at it you will never capture that many before they get eaten.

Your copper colored fish does not look close to me. I am happy for you that you have plenty of fry to deal with but don't count on any more for at least a week.

Xiphophorus variatus, true variatus platies, are not cold water fish, ever. The LFS often will label almost any platy as a variatus, so you cannot go by the tank labels. Almost never will you see a true species of any kind of platy in the LFS but instead what you see will be platy/swordtail...

Your miracle fish should be left in isolation for at least another couple of weeks. There is no telling what its real problem was, since dropsy is merely a symptom description, not a diagnosis. (You could consider it like saying pneumonia where the disease causing the pneumo to swell is not...

Of your fish, only Annabel looks like she may be carrying fry. The others do not even look heavily fed, much less carrying fry.

Your problem sounds like either disease or water quality to me BlueDragon. I have never seen a healthy female react like yours over the last 5 decades but I have seen plenty of fish in distress during that time.

A true endler can be quite productive at only 3 or 4 months old. A guppy endler/cross, which is far more likely these days, will not likely be able to produce fry until about 5 months old. There is no general rule KrystaK. Every species has its own rules.

Fish prices, like any others, are subject to the laws of supply and demand as they are experienced locally. If $5 or $6 was too high, the price would soon drop. If it is maintained, there must be a ready market for guppies at that price. Around where I live a nice fancy guppy will cost about $2...

Swordtails are not known to mate for life. On the contrary, they are reputed to mate with any receptive female that they encounter.

Although a guppy molly cross is genetically possible, I have kept both fish together for over 5 decades and have never seen such a cross. I would try another approach to get guppy-like colors into a molly if I were you.

That tail fin configuration is called a pin tail. It is a genetic change so it can be passed on to your fry.

There are many feral populations of guppies in Texas. Although they are not truly wild, they are also not easily confused with aquarium varieties. Those fish can be treated as if they were wild types TheFishGuide. If you have some, give them tank parameters similar to those we give to...

Please take a look at your water chemistry. A guppy should, in theory, never change as long as it has good water chemistry and is well fed. If your fish has degraded and you have no reason to look further at the fish chemistry, you may have overlooked something. Run a fresh set of ammonia and...

My silver sailfin mollies have a mere hint of blue to their body color. I have no doubt that someone who started with my fish could rather quickly, in maybe 4 or 5 generations, develop a blue molly. I must admit to never having seen a blue molly so far. Give me a couple of years and I could...

To differentiate males from females you use the presence or absence of gonopodiums. Please see my post for sex determination that you can reach from a link in my signature area. I called it "sexing livebearers".