Daize, I find that with guppies i've bought from the LFS they hardly survive past a few months. The home bred boy my landlady gave me is a year old and he's still going strong. I will need to do the painstaking task of uprooting everything to find the body. I have 2 chinese algae eaters in that tank plus snails so the chance of a body being recovered is pretty slim.
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>pete< said:
It's so frustrating. I hope his fry are stronger. I will have a colony of black guppies! There are the 10 in the main tank and the 17 in the fry tank will go into the main one in a weeks time. Then the ones I am rehoming wont go to their new homes until they are about 3 months old and adult size. I will keep a black male and a light male from both batches along with some females then rehome the rest. Busy, busy times!
Well I just had the biggest panic moment ever. Last night when I came out the shower I noticed a burning smell from the switch. I phoned my landlord and he said he would get a sparky out today. I didn't think anything of it until both the sparky and my landlord appeared and he had to switch the electricity off at the mains!!! Luckily it was only off for about half an hour and the fish are all fine. Panic over!
I just imgaine you trying to explain it to the landlord and sparky and the look on their faces...
'The filters the heaters they need to stay on!
My fish will die!
The beneficial bacteria will die!
I have fry and absolutely no time to start another nitrogen cycle!!
Landlord and sparky-
wat?
'The filters the heaters they need to stay on!
My fish will die!
The beneficial bacteria will die!
I have fry and absolutely no time to start another nitrogen cycle!!
Landlord and sparky-
wat?I calmly said, you have an hour GO GO GO!!!
I'm lucky my landlord and his partner both are into fish like me. His partner more so, only last night I was talking to her about taking some of my fry and she will give me some of her cories. She has 2 tanks just over 3 ft long each and a new 4 ft tank. One of her 3 1/2 ft tanks is just cories. She has the rare black ones, she has the gold laser ones-I am so jealous!
I will post a pic in a minute of my rearranged tank.
I'm lucky my landlord and his partner both are into fish like me. His partner more so, only last night I was talking to her about taking some of my fry and she will give me some of her cories. She has 2 tanks just over 3 ft long each and a new 4 ft tank. One of her 3 1/2 ft tanks is just cories. She has the rare black ones, she has the gold laser ones-I am so jealous!
I will post a pic in a minute of my rearranged tank.
Fish are tougher than we credit them for sometimes Ny.Ny82 said:
If their environment is good and they are healthy, most of the more hardy fish will be fine without heating for 6hrs easy in our climate, even in the colder months. A tank will slowly lose heat (the bigger the slower the loss) and its important when the power returns to let it warm up in its own time with just the heater. Sudden temperature changes are the killer.
Only the other week I did the weekly 25% water change and three days later noticed the heater/stat was still unplugged (I've done this many times over the years), during that time I saw no change in their behaviour what so ever. The temperature read 62dgs F when I noticed.
I've done that too Pete! The next again day I realise the heaters still off lol. Now I just turn the whole thing off at the plug instead of the individual things. It makes sure everything goes back on.
No it's very eventful! If it wasn't it would just be boring! I am just getting bugged by this branch, it just doesn't sit right at all. Really bugging me. I just can't make it sit right
DyArianna said:
No it's very eventful! If it wasn't it would just be boring! I am just getting bugged by this branch, it just doesn't sit right at all. Really bugging me. I just can't make it sit right
Have you ever tried taking everything out then chucking it all back in at random then tweaking.Ny82 said:I've done that too Pete! The next again day I realise the heaters still off lol. Now I just turn the whole thing off at the plug instead of the individual things. It makes sure everything goes back on.
No it's very eventful! If it wasn't it would just be boring! I am just getting bugged by this branch, it just doesn't sit right at all. Really bugging me. I just can't make it sit right
I used to do this a lot when I kept 'Mbuna'. The 5ft main display tank had enough Tufa rock in it to build a rockery and was the only way to go otherwise it would have driven me blim blim.
No I don't cus then if I start that I wont stop! I rearranged it, with the "forks" of the branch pointing down, I didn't like it then rearranged it again and thought that looks better...it's like it was before
SEE!
At a loss
SEE!
At a loss
So I have exciting news! I found a male for my female!
I went to my LFS which unfortunately is pets at home. I went in, in the off chance that there were high fin platies. Well I looked and there was a tank full of them-I couldn't believe my luck. Want to know something else? Some had blue eyes! I am the luckiest ever! They are £2.95 each or 2 for £4 so I bought the 2. A male and female.
The male is stunning, peach coloured with black high fin and tail and most importantly blue eyes. The female I picked had a long flowing dorsal fin and was very pretty orange head and tail and yellow body. Also blue eyes. The one I got in my bag was the identical one to her but with short fin-that's ok cus she is still very pretty and has blue eyes.
Rubbish, blurry phone pic while my camera battery is on charge!
I went to my LFS which unfortunately is pets at home. I went in, in the off chance that there were high fin platies. Well I looked and there was a tank full of them-I couldn't believe my luck. Want to know something else? Some had blue eyes! I am the luckiest ever! They are £2.95 each or 2 for £4 so I bought the 2. A male and female.
The male is stunning, peach coloured with black high fin and tail and most importantly blue eyes. The female I picked had a long flowing dorsal fin and was very pretty orange head and tail and yellow body. Also blue eyes. The one I got in my bag was the identical one to her but with short fin-that's ok cus she is still very pretty and has blue eyes.
Rubbish, blurry phone pic while my camera battery is on charge!
Chunky well fed fry!
My endler cross making a face lol
My new blue eyed boy, I don't touch the camera settings to pick up the blue.
My new blue eyed girl.
Fry will be interesting, could be white, with high fins and blue eyes! What a combo lol.
My endler cross making a face lol
My new blue eyed boy, I don't touch the camera settings to pick up the blue.
My new blue eyed girl.
Fry will be interesting, could be white, with high fins and blue eyes! What a combo lol.
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