did a google search for a stand for a rio 180 tank that I just impulse bought on ebay and stumbled across here, looks a friendly site so thought would join up and fingers crossed may be some advice here too on my recent....errr....undertaking of fish!!
hello there, my name is Ed, I'm married and live in UK, Derbyshire to be exact, my wife bought me a 3ft fish tank last year for my birthday, of course as things go it took a year to sort out a solid enough cabinet to put the tank on and fill it, we duly have and waited the allotted time and did all the tests to ensure water levels and bacteria at good levels in the tank before put fish in it!
Went to Pets At Home and bought, hmm sorry am not sure, the wife bought them really as she'd had tropicals years ago and chose species she thought would get on quite placidly without too much problems for a starter, my first fish ownership being goldfish!! so I came away with two that begin with G I think (one was blue and one was orange), two molly's (the wife's fav fish app), and two silver sharks which my wife was assured were friendly, they certainly seem laid back!
anyhow disaster of course struck the first timer, the blue G died, in fairness it was on it's side in the bag and am sure it was a defective already on it's way out one or the stress was too much for it even though did acclimatise it for as long as possible!
Gutted about that my wife casually mentioned one of the molly's looked fat, we'd not had a hand in choosing these fish which my wife wasn't happy about as she likes to pick out of the tank not have whatever they grab first and she'd seen this large bellied molly in the tank, she then said 'I'm sure that molly is pregnant and due to have them' I asked her if they were egg's or live birth's and got a blank look...explained that then!! anyway within hours I was at wor and received 'the' phone call 'I'm sat here at YOUR tank with YOUR fish.....looking at 18 baby mollies swimming around...what do I do!!!'
sent her off to pets at home, well she needs something to do right, and she came back with a square net jobbie that keeps the babies away from G who seems to think they may be a snack...though he keeps spitting them out when tries them!
Sadly the day after, the smaller molly, the 'runt' given size of rest in the tank I think died, the levels seem fish friendly on testing so am hoping these babies aren't going to overload my new tank...!!
so next question is....what do I do, I've got the seperation net and they're on Tetra baby fish food, has anyone reared baby fish, any hints to get them growing nice and healthily and how do you sex mollies!! I'd prefer to seperate them asap and already have friends lining up for babies if they live, am hoping these are 'pets at home' specials, I've been reliably told from a few friends of course after purchase that every fish they've bought from there dies within a week but there you go, bought six and got 22 at the moment!
how old do they have to be before you can rehome them? No idea on what father was but mother is a white with black spots and my wife said she thinks from memory that is a dalmation molly?
oh and to add to it...the wife just impulse bought a juwel rio 180 tank off ebay...course no stand so I've got the job of finding one for a decent price in the UK if anyone knows of anything going, she said she'll make sure none of hers are pregnant this time though!!
oh we also breed pigs - the type that turn into pork chops, 5 whippet dogs, 8 ferrets and we also have 49 chickens and the wife has 3 rescue horses too (least I forget!!!)
on top of that we both work, me in agricultural and the wife is a residential home carer, we have 3 grown up son's so you can imagine we have very busy lives, somehow we manage to find time for hobbies though, hence the fish being mine as the wife has her horses, I'm thinking mine will hopefully cost less! 
apologies for the rambling introduction, the wife is going to join herself too, username mrspurp751 - as you can see we're very original!
hello there, my name is Ed, I'm married and live in UK, Derbyshire to be exact, my wife bought me a 3ft fish tank last year for my birthday, of course as things go it took a year to sort out a solid enough cabinet to put the tank on and fill it, we duly have and waited the allotted time and did all the tests to ensure water levels and bacteria at good levels in the tank before put fish in it!
Went to Pets At Home and bought, hmm sorry am not sure, the wife bought them really as she'd had tropicals years ago and chose species she thought would get on quite placidly without too much problems for a starter, my first fish ownership being goldfish!! so I came away with two that begin with G I think (one was blue and one was orange), two molly's (the wife's fav fish app), and two silver sharks which my wife was assured were friendly, they certainly seem laid back!
anyhow disaster of course struck the first timer, the blue G died, in fairness it was on it's side in the bag and am sure it was a defective already on it's way out one or the stress was too much for it even though did acclimatise it for as long as possible!
Gutted about that my wife casually mentioned one of the molly's looked fat, we'd not had a hand in choosing these fish which my wife wasn't happy about as she likes to pick out of the tank not have whatever they grab first and she'd seen this large bellied molly in the tank, she then said 'I'm sure that molly is pregnant and due to have them' I asked her if they were egg's or live birth's and got a blank look...explained that then!! anyway within hours I was at wor and received 'the' phone call 'I'm sat here at YOUR tank with YOUR fish.....looking at 18 baby mollies swimming around...what do I do!!!'
sent her off to pets at home, well she needs something to do right, and she came back with a square net jobbie that keeps the babies away from G who seems to think they may be a snack...though he keeps spitting them out when tries them!
Sadly the day after, the smaller molly, the 'runt' given size of rest in the tank I think died, the levels seem fish friendly on testing so am hoping these babies aren't going to overload my new tank...!!
so next question is....what do I do, I've got the seperation net and they're on Tetra baby fish food, has anyone reared baby fish, any hints to get them growing nice and healthily and how do you sex mollies!! I'd prefer to seperate them asap and already have friends lining up for babies if they live, am hoping these are 'pets at home' specials, I've been reliably told from a few friends of course after purchase that every fish they've bought from there dies within a week but there you go, bought six and got 22 at the moment!
how old do they have to be before you can rehome them? No idea on what father was but mother is a white with black spots and my wife said she thinks from memory that is a dalmation molly?
oh and to add to it...the wife just impulse bought a juwel rio 180 tank off ebay...course no stand so I've got the job of finding one for a decent price in the UK if anyone knows of anything going, she said she'll make sure none of hers are pregnant this time though!!
oh we also breed pigs - the type that turn into pork chops, 5 whippet dogs, 8 ferrets and we also have 49 chickens and the wife has 3 rescue horses too (least I forget!!!)
on top of that we both work, me in agricultural and the wife is a residential home carer, we have 3 grown up son's so you can imagine we have very busy lives, somehow we manage to find time for hobbies though, hence the fish being mine as the wife has her horses, I'm thinking mine will hopefully cost less! apologies for the rambling introduction, the wife is going to join herself too, username mrspurp751 - as you can see we're very original!
