What are you doing today?

[Alice B]

Going fishin'

About that tagline of yours, I think that the water in my area makes most fish too hard to keep. Except African cichlids and I don't want to keep them anymore

 

[Back in the fold]

Almost time to go over to my oldest Daughter’s house for a Labor Day feast ! Beautiful warm sunny day here and I’ll spend it in her basement looking at her aquarium making sure everything is the way I think it should be but I won’t miss out on the food .

 

[Sparx]

Water change day!

 

[Sparx]

I thought it was a great idea to have livebearers. So I created a tank with 4 male and 4 female dwarf red coral platys, a mating pair of gold sailfin Mollys and all male yellow tiger endlers. The platys are out of control with breeding. I am constantly fishing out young juveniles to bring to my lfs. This is getting old. Therefore today I will spend considerable time fishing out the female platys to bring to my lfs. These platys are difficult to catch.

This made me chuckle.
I have four Mollies in my community tank - two male and two female. One of the females gave birth over the weekend because she went from being heavily gravid to.. well.. a lot slimmer overnight!
I have not seen one fry!
Some of their tank mates include: Angelfish, Gouramis, Synodontis Catfish and Reed fish. I’m sure all of these contribute to keeping my Molly population to a steady four

 

[Rocky998]

About that tagline of yours, I think that the water in my area makes most fish too hard to keep. Except African cichlids and I don't want to keep them anymore

Some things may be out of our control, which imo is different.
For the most part, a lot of fish will do well if you stick to the main/basic things about keeping fish.

Certain things like having soft water and wanting hard water fish will be more complicated or vice versa.
As well as wanting Saltwater fish.

Some fish are more sensitive which is true, but again, if you follow the main/basic knowledge/advice, you shouldn't have many issues

 

[Alice B]

Some things may be out of our control, which imo is different.
For the most part, a lot of fish will do well if you stick to the main/basic things about keeping fish.

Certain things like having soft water and wanting hard water fish will be more complicated or vice versa.
As well as wanting Saltwater fish.

Some fish are more sensitive which is true, but again, if you follow the main/basic knowledge/advice, you shouldn't have many issues

I used to be able to keep mollies. I should be able to keep mollies. maybe the last mollies I bought just had something wrong with them. I haven't even tried platies in years. Lots of years.... My water should be hard enough for mollies and platies, given the stones my vet took out of my dog

 

[Back in the fold]

For the most part, a lot of fish will do well if you stick to the main/basic things about keeping fish .

Some fish are more sensitive which is true, but again, if you follow the main/basic knowledge/advice, you shouldn't have many issues .

I want to see pictures of your Discus when you get them .

 

[Alice B]

You hold that water temp at 90 and you can breed discus at a pH of 7.8. i can't, but I know people used to

 

[Alice B]

selling sewing machines watching it rain

 

[Lateral Line]

I've clipped two thirds of our hedges today. I can't finish the third third until I can borrow the ladder from the estate office. Nice weather today, dry. Rain forecast for tomorrow though.

 

[gwand]

“thought it was a great idea to have livebearers. So I created a tank with 4 male and 4 female dwarf red coral platys, a mating pair of gold sailfin Mollys and all male yellow tiger endlers. The platys are out of control with breeding. I am constantly fishing out young juveniles to bring to my lfs. This is getting old. Therefore today I will spend considerable time fishing out the female platys to bring to my lfs. These platys are difficult to catch.”

This is what I wrote yesterday. I finally did it. I captured all the females from the 20 gallon tank. I will bring them to my lfs soon. Now the tank has only male Mollys.

 

[Rocky998]

I want to see pictures of your Discus when you get them .

Lolll.
I knew discus would come up.

It's true, there are fish that are more sensitive, but as long as you have the proper knowledge and the passion to do everything in your power that is right, you won't have MANY issues. I didn't say you wouldn't have any, just that there shouldn't be a lot.

Discus are a dream fish of mine to keep. Want a nice group in a 125g. Maybe I will have those photos one day.

Do I think someone should just go get the "hardest" fish to keep out there? No... But my quote says "no fish is TOO hard to keep," not that it's not hard at all. (In the quote I'm only speaking about freshwater fish as well)

The hobby can be difficult in general.

 

[Back in the fold]

@Rocky998 I haven’t heard anything about your Peacock Gudgeons in a long time . Do you still keep them ? Do you have any new fry ?

 

[GaryE]

One of the really important basics to know is what fish you can't keep. So the sig line works for fish, once that process of elimination has been worked through.
I'm still traumatized because I saw Dicrossus filamentosus, the checkerboard lyretail, on a list I'm ordering from, and didn't ask for them because of temperature issues.

 

[JackGulley]

I'm still traumatized because I saw Dicrossus filamentosus, the checkerboard lyretail, on a list I'm ordering from, and didn't ask for them because of temperature issues.

Dicrossus are so cool. There’s a guy on apistogramma.com with a cool dicrossus tank.