Hello -- I'm New Here. - From Cartersville, Ga

[fishygayle]

Hi,

I just found this forum and decided to join. I have a 20 gallon FW with lots of plants, lots of guppies, a betta, a golden something or another, 3 cory cats, mickey mouse platy....um and algae.

I also have a seriously neglected 24 gallon Aquapod by Current USA. I have recently had a cyno outbreak that I'm trying to overcome. I believe it came from the recent demise of my golden wrasse. My 2 year old has a strange affection for this aquarium. She loves to turn the lights on/off, open the feeding door and we don't want to know what she does...washes her hands, I have found spoons and forks in there, occasionally there will by a Polly Pocket diving with the fishes....If you don't know what a Polly Pocket is....you REALLY don't want to know - most of their accessories are fodder for the vacuum.

Anyway, currently there is about 15+ pounds of live rock, a royal gramma, a few hermit crabs, a sally foot crab, botton polyps are hanging in there, xenia....not holding out a lot of hope for him...Spoon landed right square in the middle of it....lots of purple coraline agae is coming back though. - - Oh yeah...didn't mention that my stock pump quit working so I'm currently cripping along with only a MJ600. My new MJ1200 is on order....please please please be here tomorrow.

I have on order
bunch of cerith snails
bristle star
queen conch
some chaetomorpha algae - -I'm going to convert the first chamber into a fuge with a submersible LED light
some yellow polyps
I'm also strongly considering modifying the aquarium to enable me to put my MJ600 into the first chamber...still thinking about that...wondering if the chaetomorpha algea would clog it up too much.

 

[lilfishie]

well welcome to tff, nice selection of fish you have there, how does the betta get on with the guppies?

 

[raptorrex]

hey fishygale, welcome.

 

[fishygayle]

I know a lot of folks say that fancy tail guppies and betta don't mix....but I have had absolutely no problems. The betta wasn't even the main predator of the fry I had over the summer. It was the Mickey Mouse Platy. Dumb fish....don't know how to stay in the safety of the kudzu.(mystery plant floating on top...it grows like kudzu...so that's what I call it)

 

[woogie]

Hi fishygayle. nice to see another newbie like myself. I too have a betta and guppys in the same tank and they get along just fine, but unlike yours my betta was the cheif eater of my guppy fry. I managed to rescue most of them and put them in the sanctuary of a floating trap. The betta is a bit dumb though and keeps smashing his head on the see through trap trying to get to the fry. gotta love silly fish eh?