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Well...ideal ph for breeding platies?

Alright...sounds good....but once again...will it hurt my fish, or be a harm, if my fish eat some eggs as well?

Last night/today was my first attempt at hatching brine shrimp. Very crude to begin with (a jar with some air bubbles with salt), I don't think it worked all that well. Tonight I've stepped it up, and now am using a used syrup bottle. The hole in the lid is the exact size of the air tube, so...

Alright, sounds good. Today I actually added 3 more platy's, keeping the 2 females to 1 male ratio, so now I have 2 males and 4 females. Although technically they aren't mickies, they are the exact same color, just without the mickey. Oh, and 5steady, your platies share a birthday with, well...

I've had 2 female mickeys and 1 male for about 6-10 weeks now. I was expecting at least one female to give birth within half that. I was just wondering about this. Right now all the platys are about 2 inches, i suppose. one thing i've noticed about these red mickey mouse platys, i've not noticed...

I could be wrong...but I once had two snails, forget what kinds, I sorta overdid it on the salt, and they died. Not sure if it was the aquarium salt that killed them, or something else. But you've heard of putting salt on slugs, right. I suppose a snail is just about a slug with a shell. Try...

Yeah, I've seen those before..however....putting water from the faucet straight into the aquarium can't be good can it? Its either cold, or if you use hot water, it is probably fool of copper and other metals (from the water heater, read something about it), and also it has chlorine in it, so...

Hmmmm...I know that any small amount is bad, however I just assumed that it would be 0 unless something odd happened (power outage, etc), so that's why I haven' t been testing regularly. Also, what about this: What is a good way to change water. What I usually do, is take a some airline tubing...

I'm not 100% sure of the test kit, but looks as if ammonia is anywhere between .25 -.5 ppm. The test kit I have has a very large range, but it shows it as not having much, as yellow is 0, and mine came out to be the lightest green, with dark greens being high. Temperature is about 82, as I...

flash22, that would make sense, as it's the only fish that it is happening to, burning or a foreign object would cause it on all fish, wouldn't it? However, there is a small bottle (clear, ornamental) that used to have a sort of fragrance in it, although I MADE sure that all traces of it were...

OK...so ammonia is good, how about nitrates/ites? could the burn fish as well?

Its been running for a while now..probably about 8 weeks. Honestly...I did mess up and do a fish in cycle..however these aren't the original fish that I cycled with, I donated all of them. I've assumed that the tank is cycled, so I've not checked for ammonia for a while. I've been changing 5...

I have two flame dwarve gouramis, 3 platies, and two algae fish. Lately, it looks as if one of the dwarves is turning dark/black. Today I've noticed an area that is possibly an injury/sore/scrape. It could just be me, but is there a parasite/disease that sounds familar to any of this?

Well that is what I was thinking of..but two questions: Won't that possibly cut down the water flow levels? What sort/where to find a sponge such as this? Oh, and one of the main reasons I want to try this is so that I will only get the strongest, smartest frys to live (and the lucky leprechaun...

Ok, so Laura, that sounds good. However, what about this? I believe that the slots for my filter are just large enough for fry to slip through, so any ideas about that?

Ahh...well that's what I'm hoping the breeding grass will help accomplish. Since all the fish in my tank are all large, I also have something else in mind, I'm not sure it will sink though...a small bottle, just the right size for a fry, but nothing else could fit. Will it sink? I'll soon find...

Ok, so I have two female platies and one male, planning on breeding them. I've got them in my community tank, but honestly I don't want to use any of the breeding nets or such, as I think thees look very unsightly. I am, in theory, going to let the fry live with the other fish from birth. Not...

Ok, so I have two female platies and one male, planning on breeding them. I've got them in my community tank, but honestly I don't want to use any of the breeding nets or such, as I think thees look very unsightly. I am, in theory, going to let the fry live with the other fish from birth. Not...

Brackish? I thought that mean't just some salt in the aquarium, like 1 teaspoon of aquarium salt per gallon. Brackish is much more than that, isn't it? Perhaps I should start visiting some other lfs, as this one seems to not have a clue about what they are selling. I can take these back down...

I kept them in a 20 gallon and they did fine.

Oh, no. Once again, I had the little cap off the filter, stupidly enough, and it just got sucked up. the other one jumped out about 3 months later. i had em for about a year, but perhas i just got lucky. oh, the "black finned sharks" aren't bala or silver sharks, (bala and silver sharks are the...

Now why do you mention "males only" for the livebearers, any reason besides the fact that they breed so fast? Because that's one reason I was wanting them, to breed them. But are females more susceptible to disease or such? Oh, I've already got the flame dwarves and the black finned sharks, and...

Ok, so what is a smaller shark series, with perhaps some links to them? Alright, so no livebearers at all, ok. I was wondering what would happen if i put some cherry shrimp in there with the flame dwarves. Oh, and will almost any same sized gouramis work?

I've got 2 flame dwarf gouramis and two black finned sharks. I've got a 55 gallon tank, and although I've heard that the sharks should have at least 70 gallons, as they get big, I like them, so I'll just have to keep them till they get too big or something. I do a weekly 5 gallon water change...

Hmm...what do you mean, air buble got stuck under it? I don't understand, please explain. My heater is pretty close to my filter, bubles could VERY EASILY get stuck under it. Please explain in all details!

Now I really don't have any clue, but this is my thought. Put the normal ammount of Ammonnia in before you leave, the same amount you've been adding. Then, tank some fish food, not much, but about a good pinch, and place it on the complete opposite side in your aquarium than where your filter...

Rabbut, I'm in TN. Hmmm....I'll check all local LFS's, (2 private, plus PETCO, but I doubt Petco will carry them). They other two my have them, but I'm sure that perhaps one won't mind ordering some. What about that? I've always wondered about http://www.drsfostersmith.com/ They offer...

OH, and I just looked at cherry shrimp, they look awesome! Hey, they aren't like little crabs are they? I mean, they don't need something to "bask" and breathe on, do they? Hey, where can I get these cherry shrimp? I don't think I've seen them at any lfs's. If you go and ask a lfs to special...

Ok, so how is this: guppies platy's cory's otos clown plec's

The otos do look cool, I may try them. In my 55 gallon, could i fit about 3 or 4 clown loaches in with all the livebearers? And what about cory's? This the fish? http://www.fishforums.net/content/Catfish/...ras-leucomelas/ http://www.fishforums.net/content/Catfish/...oras-Undulatus/

Well that's what I was wanting livebearers for, breeding. :lol: Hey Chris, will some lfs's actually buy fish like that from you? That would be cool, but then again I'm not going to get rich off of it. I could be wrong, but couldn't all of these fish that I listed live in a little salty water...

Hmmm... I've either heard that they get really big, or are really aggressive. I can't remember which one it was. So what is the info on this siamese algae eaters?

I was planning on some guppies, platys, mollies, and possibles some swordtails. Furthermore, I was probably going to get some clown loaches later on, maybes some (white cloud mountain minnows?), do all these sound good? My tank is a 55 gallon, wanting it to be a community tank. Any more...

You mean that "strains" get weaker, you mean that the colors will generally decline and fade after a while, because of inbreeding? But new bloodlines will prevent that?

Ok, I actually don't have any yet. However, I love the looks of all these! I've bred guppies and platys before in my 20 gallon, but none survived. I now think I am ready to try again, this time with a 55 gallon. So the tank would consist mainly of those stated above, but with some minnows and...

Thanks! Alright, so tabs, are they exactly what they sound like? Little tablets that work as fertilizers? Available from any lfs?

Doesn't anyone know the answer?

I heard that Amazon Swords are hardy and can live in low light levels, but is 40 watts (2 20 watt bulbs) enough light in a 55 gallon? I put them in today, I'm trying to figure out if I should expect them to die, or perhaps buy more, because they look really good. Also, what are some other low...

As a cleaning product..so from some other place, I have to make sure that it is pure ammonnia, right?