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Nice to meet you !

Her book is in my Amazon cart.

Winter I apologize on both counts. I don't have her book and I'm not familiar with her soak method. At least I have the chance to learn something. I further apologize for I must have read the post wrong not realizing the fish were all dead prior to your saying after the holidays. An honest...

Sorry I forgot to mention something important. Blue green algae (BGA) is a photosynthetic bacteria that releases a poison (cytotoxins) when it dies. That is why you need to scrape everything down, remove affected decorations and vacuum out as much as possible before the black out. If too much...

I had a bit of trouble with blue green algae. Here's what I found out worked and how I got rid of it. Gently rubbed it off all the leaves of my live plants (it rubs off easily between thumb and fingers), removed decorations for separate cleaning, scrapped down all the glass very carefully...

I came home from work and was dismayed to find one of my glass fish dead on the bottom of the tank..... What was really weird was his mouth was wide open and his gills were flared out more than any Betta I have ever seen. I immediately scooped him out of the tank and took a better look. It...

Hi C.low, My first question is are you intending on breeding the guppies and if so what is your plan for raising the fry ? For a tank with males and females most would recommend a minimum of 2 females for every male. More females is better. The females will be stressed and battered if the ratio...

Hi Laylita All guppies are of the same species - Poecilia reticulata. Yellow cobra is a description of a color strain that has been intentionally line bred to maintain certain color characteristics. Judging from your photos I would say that it is just a color variation of the same strain of...

Hi Amy, Try to remember that not all people who work in a fish department or a local fish store are experts. Some are people who never owned a fish tank in their life and to them it's just a job. I find it's wonderful when I do find staff that has knowledge. I will drive extra miles to purchase...

When I made this post I was completely wrong on two major issues. I was unfamiliar with the soak method and didn't know it was a thing. I apologize for that. Also I misunderstood in his post that the fish died before the holidays and the tank was bereft of fish at that point. For that I...

Hi Rainy, I am guessing that's a 10 gallon tank ? 10 guppies is pushing the stocking limit quite a bit unless you keep up on the water quality and partial water changes religiously. As essjay asked is there a heater and a filter ? And Derekshatch is right that your male/female ratio is way off...

Beautiful fish and tank.

I think that as long as your water parameters are good, you should pick the betta you like the best

Hi, I'm Mike. I live in Kings Park NY. I have been keeping fish on and off since I was 14 so nearly 40 years. I am willing to admit during a lot of that time I was doing plenty of things wrong. Luckily the older I get the more I seem to be willing to learn. I currently have a 46 gallon bow front...

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