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If you don't want an endless supply of fry, you should go with as someone else already suggested and get 2-3 females. Most are already pregnant when you get them so you will have several batches of fry for a few monthes and as long as you take the fry out before they are say a month old the...

If you get 1 male and 1 female, your male will swim her ragged. In a 5 gal you could get away with 1 male to 2 females, but I would go with 2 or 3 of the same sex. You have to have somewhere to put the fry, so unless you get another tank or just let the parents eat the fry, all of the same...

Most females that you buy from lfs are already pregnant. If you don't buy any males the female will still reproduce for a few monthes, if you leave the babies to fend for themselves a few will survive. Once the babies start to get bigger you can see gravid spots on the baby females(those...

After my tank had been set up for a while, one of my fish died so I took a water sample to Petco to check and my ammonia was high. Michelle the girl that work there told me to do water changes but to do those by siphoning the gravel also. The poo gets down in the gravel and causes the...

At my lfs natural colored gravel is a lot cheaper then colored, I would say around half the price.

I had a bad experience with rosy barbs, they liked the fins on my other fish a little to much. I don't know if that is normal or not. So I would be careful with the long finned fish.

In my experience the male guppies will chase any kind of female you have in a tank, but if there isn't a female they have coexisted peacefully. Cories are fine with only 2, they just have to have a companion to hang out with on the bottom. So if you don't want to take a chance on the male...

I let my 7 year old nephew pick out fish for the 10 gallon tank I gave him. He picked 2 Mickey Mouse platies, 2 guppies and 2 albino cories for the bottom. I have 5 zebra danios in my 55 gal, I had a problem with water in my tank and they are very hardy fish(at least in my experience with...

If you want the Panda cories, how about putting those in the tank where you have the albino cories and put the albino cories in with the fry. Just a thought

They keep their balance and as soon as the males go on they start swimming again. I didn't think there was anything wrong with them but wasn't sure and wanted to make sure. Thanks I know they are preg but I didn't think they were that far along yet. They aren't super fat like my guppies...

I have 2 silver molly females that just kind of float in the tank when my male black mollies touch them. I have two other female mollies a golddust and a black, they do not do this just the silver mollies do. Is that something they do or is something wrong with them. :S :dunno: :S

I have a Black Ghost Knife, it will only eat fish it can get in its mouth easily, it doesn't like to fight for his food. I also have a Bala shark in with my platies, mollies and guppies. As long as the fry are in a different tank you should be fine with either one. They are very a...

With my guppy she was hanging out around the thermometer by her self. I knew by the way she was acting that she was close to having her babies. I put her in the breeding trap w/ a grate seperating her from the bottom. Within an hour she started having babies and all 15 survived in the trap...

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I don't think he trapped him self on something. I have in a breeding trap and have been giving him salt baths. Scale are possibly peeling,but not sure. It hasn't gotten worse.

I have a male Micky Mouse Platy that all of the sudden looks as though it has scales missing by its side fins. It is on both side with one side larger than the other. None of the other fish have it, it is yellow in color like the orange scales are missing.

Mine started in the morning and went most of the day.

Those are Powder Blue Dwarf Gourami, I had some and they are beautiful fish. They also have some that are red(I can't think of what they are actually called).

I am new to fish and want to know what is dropsy and how do fish get it and how do you get rid of it? I don't think any of my fish have it but would like to know what to look for.

How exactly do a salt bath on a fish? Do you just add salt to the water? What if you have catfish or cory cats that you can't use salt with? Thanks in advance for the help.

I have an old filter from my 55 gal aquarium filter that I cut in half then cut a whole through it and slipped it over the bottom so that nothing but water could be sucked up in it.

I bought a siphon kit at PetCo for between $8-10. They are fairly inexpensive and do a good job in cleaning out the food and poo that gets down in the rocks.

Should you use salt and what is it good for? I have some cory and speckled catfish is it safe for them?

Basically that is my question how do you tell their sexes apart.

A friend of ours had an African Grey that would sound exactly like a ringing telephone, Jim his owner would run to the phone to answer it and the bird would start laughing at him. Birds are very smart and entertaining pets. I have a Moluccan Cockatoo Harley and a Blue & Gold Macaw Hayley...

I bought a baby gecko at Petco for $19.99 on sale(reg $29.99), Reko was about 3 inches long when we got him. My nephews are 5 and 7, they handle him all the time and they are great with him. We had to put more heat in the tank as it didn't stay warm enough for him to eat and digest his...

I read on a guppy website, that you should seperate the males and females at 4 weeks of age. I have babies that are 2 weeks old today and they all look like a mini female(no color). Will they change colors that much in 2 more weeks? Can you tell the difference at that age? :dunno: :dunno:

I love my black mollies. I have a 55gal community tank with the following fish: 4 platies, 2 black-2 dalmation-2 silver-1 golddust all mollies, 2 Angel, 3 blood fin tetra, 2 catfish, 2 swordtails, 4 guppies(15 fry in a trap), 2 baby placo and 1 bala shark. I also have a 10 gal tank with: 2...

Sorry to hear about your Angel. I had the same thing happen, I bought one Angel and some tiger and rosey barbs to add to my tank. All the barbs ganged up and chased the Angel all over the tank. I took all the barbs back to my lfs and traded them fro some mollies and platies. I wanted...

At a LFS they have strawberry and blueberry tetra, are these dyed or a true breed of tetra?