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Well if your keeping your tank quite natural, then the best way to keep your tank clean of dying leaves and decomposing stuff is to have snails, and other small animals that eat that kind of stuff. When setting up tanks and gardens etc, the best way to keep everything low effort, is to think of...

It sounds like you have duck weed. a light green lilly pad shape but allot smaller, about this size 0. It spreads vey quickly, but doesnt like really fast moving water. Just like Like lilly pads dont. :D You can actually get really small living and flowering lilly pads in england, not sure...

sorry to re do my post... dont know what i was chattin about. ive always been fine havin mollies platies and guppies together.

having the other fish bully her constantly, is a no no. It will wear her out, run her down and basically kill her. If she is poorly, and not just pregnant, then she needs all the energy she has to fight the infection. Do try looking online as the person before me said. Thats what its for! I...

having the other fish bully her constantly, is a no no. It will wear her out, run her down and basically kill her. If she is poorly, and not just pregnant, then she needs all the energy she has to fight the infection. Do try looking online as the person before me said. Thats what its for! I...

yeah tetras are good.... Best in groups of 6 plus. corys, bottom feeders. guppies are pretty easy going... Just stay away from bettas, or anythinf which doesnt like the males tails ok

yeah fry do get chased in between the gravel. Frys natural defense is that they can hide in small places, try looking between gravel which is against the glass, Fry are known for going between gravel, and getting stuck Otherwise, yes they have alll been eaten.

GUPPY IS NOT SPELT AS GUPPIE... I just feed my guppy fry broken up bits of flake food. Once they grow a little bigger, i do try to add more nutritional foods such as shrimp etc. A good diet will set them up in life to be more healthy....

With swords, mollies and platies, it is more difficult to predict when the due date is. :huh: The best advice i can give you is, wait be patient, and keep an eye on her. What ever you decide to do, (keep the female in the tank to have the fry in there, and then fish them out, or put her in a...

It sound like you are jumping the gun a bit. I know its exciting to purchase a new fish, which you then find out is pregnant. As you said, its not square. Not all females go really square, especially if it is their first batch of fry... If shes not fat, then it could be a recent developing...

Cassandra, i now have a 40 gallon, juwel trigon 190 tank, and on weds, i am thinking of getting some sunset platies... Lovely and colourful. im also gonna get a few other things like neons, and corys etc

:D alien anna, i put your name on the post, cos i knew you would give me a good, inteligent response. thankyou so much, ill let you know what the outcome of my tank is, and will take all you said into great consideration.... :nod: :nod: :nod:

:P BIG thanks to all the help given to me in an earlier post about "Tanks not being available to the english and when they are, they are too small etc." I went out today, and on a whim, bought a brand new tank! I got a Trigon 180 litres, corner black trim Juwel tank. :nod: :nod: :nod: Im so...

Swordtails, mollies, tetras... But tetras are good when you get abotu six of them!!! My mollies are fine in my tank with my load of guppies, but some can be cranky. I have dalmation, and silver lyretal mollies!

Thanks so far you guys, i had used your links that you kindly added well. I ve never heard of loot before i posted this message. I found it difficult as it doesnt have any pictures.. The ebay tanks, (Uk) ebay, thanks anna, are too small for me but ill keep an eye out. Loot, nothing realy jumped...

:D Yay.. retail therapy is great. I lovwe finding stuff like that, an adding them to the tank.. I can t wait to see the pics. I think i will be making my way to a big aquatic store in the south of the uk soon, to find myself stuff like that...

i sound like my gran :no: :blink: :huh:

Its exciting and tense waiting and looking for the fry, which should be here by now. A month and a half is far too long... Sure shes not a fatty Platty!!! :D It norm takes about 30 days. It sounds like it should be really soon. Maybe she doesnt feel comfortable with dropping er fry yet.. I know...

smb... All i know, is i read it in the newspapers in bristol... I dont normally belive everything i hear read, but it just made me cautious. Ive looked all the way through th 12 pages on ebay, and the good tanks which i am interested in all have a little fault of some sort. Most of them are in...

not over five hundred.... I would obviously like the best tank for the least money. hehe. Id love to pay 200.

:thumbs: Aw i too have memories of staring into the biology tanks at school. It wasnt that long ago, so i wont say, "Back in the day!" I love the way you frase some things, i dont have much contact with people who dont have english as their first language, so i had a little smile. Im glad you...

:no: im not sure about ebay... Ive found a few tanks on there, but i dont trust ebay... Especially with all the press released recently. I dont know if you knew, but ebay was recently in big trouble for swindeling money of thousands an thousands of customers. B.S.A doesnt have prices on the...

I need your help!!! -_- :unsure: :( :blink: Im trying to buy a tank around the size of 70 to 120 gallon tank. Pref without the cabinet... My 18th birthday is on the 25 of oct, and i would like to get a tank. I live in Bristol, southwest england. I have researched the net over and over...

:rolleyes: Wow im glab your betta is fine... Im not sure about catfish sorry. Think about when you first noticed that she was getting fat. Then look at your calendar, and from about that time, add thirty days... That should give you some idea ok. I know how you feel about predicting when its...

i agree too.... :nod: :nod: :nod:

Anna... Yeah, ill have to report you to the life laumdry tv show... Theyll strip your used tubes from you hehehe. :D :P :D

I had something similar to that, a fish jumped out and almost landed in my hand... I saw it, and wnt into a state of shock, so i picked it up, and placed it into the nearest tank... Which was a tank of big fish... Forgot mention, this fish was tiny. I was so tempted to put my hand in the tank of...

I think this idea is really interesting...

:nod: Yes unfortunately, both method of picking up illnesses are true. The fish have them in their immune systems, and the airs spores also transport tha nasty little things around. The illnesses only become aparent when a fish isnt feeling so good... RUN DOWN! All you can do, is be ready for...

:D :) Yes fake or real!?! Its up to you. I prefer real. *You dont find fake plants in the wild, so hy should you in your tank! *Plants filter out substances in the water including the fish waste, so the tank is cleaner for longer. *Snails are good for your tank, as they eat waste, and...

should be absolutely fine... Research any fish you are thinkingof getting will make you a successfull community tank.. Youwill learn about their characterisitc and native surroundings etc. :fish: :fish: :fish:

:D :nod: :nod: :D yes that correct... the black is the fry pupils... and i agree, its very difficult.

i totally agree with you too.... I will sometimes seperate the females which are really pretty though.. Just because of resale reasons. I find that the moving of the mother can sometimes be to stressfull and she might abort. :nod: :nod: :nod:

Yes, much easier... 1 because of the fry deaths, 2 because of cleaning. Have you ever been to a breeders tanks... If you look mostly all of them dont have any gravel... It works for me the bulk... :D

:D :) :blink: Ive always had guppies, and i to notice a difference in their behaviour before they drop. But i also find predicting molly birth times allot more difficult. They are allot more colourfull and no so see through as the female guppies thats why i find it more difficult. :nod: :nod...

:D BY all means, get a little tank for your fry to be brought up in. I do suggest that you have living plants without gravel... Fry and gravel isnt the best idea. Fry get stuck betwen the gravel pieces. Also, with out gravel it keeps the tank simple, and easy to clear away any dead fry... I...

;) Guppies are a lovely addition to any community tank. They have lovely colours, produce lots of fry, not as much as mollies, they have lovely temperments and are easy to look after. I found myself, that the less fancy guppies, that you can buy from local fishstores insteads of breeders are...

Can anyone name big tank company names... Ive forgotten them all and need some help with research of how big my tank is.... Ive done a converter, but i think it is bigger from than a 15 gallon tank... P.s i wanna buy a big tank. for my 18th birthday from my daddy... A really big one! Got any...

once betta have matured, they will not like male guppies, its their fancy tails.. do you know that your pet store will buy the fry?

Its good you got some stones and stuff for the poor little black guppy to hide away from... You should also add some living plants. These will give cover , seperate fish terratories, add oxygen to tank, filter substances from the tanks water, and eat the fish pooh, which they see as food but we...