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:blink: :crazy: Okay, we're hijacking this topic severely...

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Males display for females. Males display for males. Males display for other fish. It has gotten as far one of my male displaying and trying to mate with one of my cory cats.

A lot of times they'll come as hitchhikers on live plants, and aquariasts won't notice them. Sometimes people get them just because they feel like it. Once A ramshorn snail hitchhiked on some java fern I bought, but the thousands of pond snails I have started with eight pond snails that I...

Aw, sorry to hear. :( My cory that I just got yesterday jumped out of the tank, and I found her dead. The store is too far away to go back and exchange/get a new one. I feel your pain! (Only it would be worse to have a gn dying....)

Okay, thanks. I will turn the filter off. I was thinking that it wasn't helping the cause..... Thanks.

Hmm.... I checked in my favourite pet store, which has a huge variety of fish, and I didn't see them. But I have a question..... I was looking at the tanks full of electric yellows, and I a few of them were orange.... Is this a different variation? Thanks, f_f!

Male guppies do that to display to the female.

A Petsmart is opening up 2 minutes away from my house.... This will be the second one in Canada.

They may be stragglers. Almost very time I get mollies that can't lift their bellies off of the ground, they die early on in their lives. This new batch of mollies I have right now all started swimming up near the surface of the water within a few hours. (Except for one - it took a couple days...

Okay, thanks. I was scared for a moment, I was thinking, "Have I made a mistake adding this sand". Fingers crossed that it settles quickly. (Not that it really matters, lol. I was just worrying.)

I have been having the same problem as you for ages. It turned out to be internal parasites, and after giving them medicated food, they made an almost full recovery. Medicated food doesn't treat every internal parasites, but it definitely helps. Good luck, -f_f!

Hey guys. I set up my 57 gallon today, and the substrate is play sand. I didn't rinse it quite enough, and now the tank is so murky I can't see an inch into it, even with the lights on. I have carbon running in the filter, so I hope that helps a bit.... Will the murkiness eventually clear out...

Sometimes really rounded stomachs can mean they're premature, which is obviously not a good thing. Congrats on the fry, good luck raising them! :) -f_f!

They will be a week tomorrow. Thanks. :) Sorry to get off topic, kribensis12. :blush:

Did you read this? http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/277805-hitchhikers-in-freshwater-tanks-ponds/ It helped me a lot when I first joined the forums. :) -f_f!

And do you know the availability of these in Canada, perhaps? I can't find a lot of the species that I see posted on here in Canada. (Where I live in Canada, at least) At one point, it was hard to find kribs!

Thank you for the ideas. I'm pretty sure I'm going with Electric Yellows, and I'm picking up all the supplies tomorrow. :D

I always get fry for free from LPS's and LFS's, but they normally don't survive, because I don't have any reputable pet stores near me, and all their tanks are infested with disease. Last weekend I got 10 molly fry from where I volunteer at, one died, because he was a straggler, but other than...

Oh okay, because we have some at where I work right now, and there are a ton in the tank with black dorsal fins, but only one that doesn't have a black dorsal fin. (And she is the same size as the rest of them)

The male electric yellows have the black stripe on their dorsal fin, am I right?

Awesome, then labs it will be! :) :good: Can they cross with electric blues? Not that I'm planning to, but I'm just wondering. Thanks.

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Oh my, see, this is why I'm torn. :/ I have a store to give the convicts to if need be, (actually, a couple) but I really don't know if I'll have success breeding labs.... I don't have tons of luck when it comes to breeding fish, so I don't know if I'd have enough luck for Labs. The tank is...

Hmm, :/ Maybe you should post this in the emergency section, you'll get better results. I use this medication all the time, works like a charm. My fish seem to always get gill flukes, so I follow the directions that it says, (put 1 tablet in per gallon, after 48 hours, do a 25% water change and...

Sweet, is it because they are easier to care for/breed? Or just your personal opinion? :) -f_f!

This store sounds like mostly all of the stores near where I live in Canada. :no: Fish all diseased, rude, clueless store employees. And to be honest, I actually volunteer at a pet store that *does* sell fish, and many of the fish are very sickly. I remember coming in once and there were 10 dead...

I agree with Curiosity. Even if it does nothing in the end, I feel a lot better having tried. :good:

Thanks, but..... I already have a couple tanks of kribs. (A 17 gallon and a 39 gallon) and I want a cichlid/fish that gets slightly larger.... Hmm.... :/ I am torn.

Arghh! I've posted many topics like this already, but I keep changing my mind! I'm setting up my 57 gallon aquarium this weekend, and I want to put some sort of cichlid in there that will breed fairly readily, (once the tank is cycled, of course...) but I can't decide! I was thinking electric...

I kind of agree with Honeythorn, but mollies prefer brackish water.

Oh my, this thread made my mouth drop open! To be honest, I am sort of jealous. (Actually, very) I can never seem to get my livebearers to breed healthy strains, if breed at all, and here you are, getting 200+ a DAY! :blink: If you lived anywhere close to me, (Which I know you don't, because I...

Nice thread. I am going to be setting up a 57 gallon aquarium that will be dedicated to electric yellow cichlids. Are there any other kinds of cichlids that I can put in with them, and will the labs still breed with others in the tank? Thanks. And btw, I love your set up! I can't wait to set my...

If I ever run across a case of ich, I don't even use salt. I just turn up the temp really high to more than 86F, (but you wouldn't be able to do this if your fish are sensitive to heat) and the ich life cycle runs it's course very quickly. A temp that high is enough to even kill the ich, in most...

Yes, just take the coral out. That is your best bet.

Thanks for the advice, it is greatly appreciated. :) I once read that you can attach an orange peeler to your gravel vac and use that to stir the sand up, while the debris flies upward into the siphon? How often do you have to stir the sand? (Just every water change, ie. once a week?) Thanks...

Thanks. Inverts? Like invertebrates? Sorry, I am very slow. :look: And, how do you care properly for sand? :/

Wow, I've finally asked a good question. ;) Thanks, Inchworm. So, they sell starter cultures in little tubs online or at some fish stores?

Thank you for the advice. :) I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with yellow labs, but what is the difference between them and cobalt blues/electric blues? Are those just variations? And can they cross with each other? Thanks. :) -f_f!

I'm in Canada, but I have Toys R Us close to where I live. I will definitely check there. Thanks. =)