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Hey at least you didn't have a petstore employee tell you that there is no way to tell the difference between male and female mollies. -_-;

More kissers lol. They like being with eachother. But basicaly any fish that is peaceful and can't fit in their mouths.

I have a cascade too. Had to pour water in it manually and although thankfully no grinding noise, it overflows back out the chamber over the vacuum stem as well as the waterfall. It works fine but you can definitely tell cascades are the cheaper end of the spectrum.

I bought a male and female white/silver molly the other day and the male is huge. He resembles a molly but his tail fin is longer and less fan shaped and his dorsal fin is HUGE and looks more like a horses mane (grows all down his back like a dwarf gourami and stops where his tail fin starts)...

Mollies and Angels will come right to you. Theyre constantly chewing..er whatever it is fish do with their mouths... on my fingers or arm. While there hanging around I can touch them without them caring.

If it is his swimbladder there isn't much you can do. Although putting in a platform with some coral and other things he's used to will make it easier for him and more normal.

Those are amazing. (magnet algae scrapers nice!) lol. How big is the first tank? It looks like 500g!

It's because Guam has a snake problem. (the origin). And anyway are they going to be like animal nazi's searching peoples houses for a hamster that accidentally had babies or a snake that was given to a friend? There'd be a whole pile of dead pet collectors in my backyard. 'Nuff said.

Mine eats pellet food the fish somehow miss in their feeding frenzy.

True but a dead steak and a live fish are different. A cat should try and eat mice but if it grows up with them it dosen't.

I know a lot of people feed the adults live fish, but they know the difference (or eventually will). Be careful when crossbreeding (some result in things like too small fins or jaws that don't work) but in theory ANY Central American Cichlids can breed as long as they are around the same size...

If they've never bred before they may not know what happened. I hear if they spawn a few more times they get good at it and are good parents. Don't get discouraged, they probably didn't even realize what the fry were. Seasoned breeding pairs pull it off excellently you probably just have newbies.

I ment the higher end of the 3-4 for the silver dollars. Just trying to explain the ratio of big to small fish / room for them.

That's ok, not all of them survive thats why fish have so many. Those 30 are the strongest. You need to feed the parents lots of food and they blow the chopped up food out for the babys. Use more heartier food like brine shrimp and frozen worms.