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How rare would it be for my platys to give birth to a pintail type? Both parents had regular tails and so do the rest of the fry...except this one. Would a grandparent have to be a pintail or can it go further back? I can easily tell who the mother is, I imagine the fish will be the (almost)...

Stocking then 3 adult mollies 4 juvenile mollies 4 adult platys 1 betta Stocking now 10 black neons 3 cardinal tetras 2 juvenile mollies (sold the rest) 4 adult platys A ton of fry (I'm going to sell the juvenile males after the quarantine is over)

So I cleaned my canister filter for the first time a while back. It was working fine for a while but then the output was really slow. So I took it apart, didn't find anything wrong and put it back together. Again it ran fine for a couple of days and now the flow is really slow again. I added an...

I'm not 100% sure what this plant is but it looks like a giant anubias and has been growing at a decent rate. I want to propagate it but I'm not sure where I should cut it. I drew 2 line where I think it should be cut.

Weird title but here me out. I put guppies in my 20 gallon temperate tank (72f),1 male and 2 females. It started out normal with the male occasionally pestering the females. This week however they have turned on him. He has a chunk of his tail missing and has been hiding from them. My questions...

I made the classic mistake of listening to the pet store guy. I was looking for pygmy chain sword for my 20 gallon tank. Of course no stores sell it so I went out of town to a store that claimed to carry it. And OF COURSE when I show up all if the sudden they don't have it. So I left with a...

So last week I had a fry die, I didn't think much of it until I saw one of my juvenile mollies attack the other and then start trying to nip at a platy fry. I stuck a heater in what was going to be my 20 gallon coldwater tank and did a few water changes to bring up the temperature. So she is in...

1. My scarlet temple is dying, not all if it but some of the plants are. I was told (my fault for listening) that it didn't need any special treatment. I just started to fertilize my tank with Flourish, will this help? Or do I need root tabs? 2. Java fern propagation. I noticed black root like...

So I've always wanted to do a coldwater aquarium. I also have a standard 20 gallon tank lying around so I decided nows a good a time as any. I just have a few questions since there are a bunch of coldwater fish. Rosey red minnows- I know they are feeder fish but can they be bred to be...

I didn't know what to title this. I have 2 juvenile mollies from when I still had mollies in my tank. They are siblings 1 is calico but the other I have no idea what the name of it's colour morph is. The mother was a creamsicle and the father was a dalmatian.

So i've had my 55 up and cycled and running with fish for months. After my one Molly got sick i decided to rehome the other 2 and replace with a school of 10 black neons. Everything was fine. A couple of weeks later I added 5 otocinclus and as predicted i lost 1 within a week but the other 4...

I had to remove my female betta because she got sick. It kind of look empty in there with just 10 black neons 4 otos and 3 female platys. Vera was kind of my centerpiece fish she never bothered the other fish. It has a lot of hiding spots on the one side and lots of swimming space on the other.

I had to remove my female betta because she got sick. It kind of look empty in there with just 10 black neons 4 otos and 3 female platys. Vera was kind of my centerpiece fish she never bothered the other fish. I was going to do a poll but I have no idea how to get it to work. Should I: 1...

My Amazon sword that I've had for a few months can't seem to keep leaves. Every time I find a bad leaf I clip it off and a new one grows a new one and it also started to die. I feed it root tabs, I tried adjusting the lights (more and less). Am I doing something wrong? What can I do to help?

I think this is the place to post this. My old hob filter decided to die on me so I bought a canister filter. Of course since a the media is new I now have a bacterial bloom in my tank. What would be the fastest way of dealing with this Water changes every day or adding beneficial bacteria...

So I decided to turn my air stone off when I added my new oto cats to the 55 gallon tank until they were settled in. Today I decided to turn it back on and came home to this. What is it? Has anyone else had anything like it? All my fish are still alive and active (thankfully) I did previously...

I had some algae issues in my 8.8 gallon betta tank so I had to redo it. The algae bloom wasn't doing my live plants any good. I removed the plants, added him a cichlid rock for a hide and some Malaysian driftwood. I will be adding more moss balls later.

I have a moderately planted 55 gallon aquarium. Ammonia 0 Nitrates 5 ppm Nitrates 0 My water change schedule is about 50% weekly The stocking is as follows 1 betta 3 female platys 10 black neon tetras A couple of molly fry from when I had mollies but are too young to catch and sell Would I...

A few days ago my oldest molly passed away. This of course upset the male to female ratio and ghd male has been harrassing the female. I'm considering giving them both to the Lfs and going with a schooling fish to go with my 4 platys and 1 female betta. The tank is 55 gallons moderately...

Nit sure if this is the place to put it but I have a 55 gallon aquarium with mollies, platys and a female betta. Today on one of the anubias leaves I found a small ball with eyes. Did one of my livebearers miscarry? I do have a few snails but it doesn't look like a baby snail.

I have a HOB filter as close to the center of my 55 gallon tank as possible. However due to the brace in the middle it is still off to the side. This leaves a dead spot on half the tank for poop and other debris to accumulate. I do 2 water changes a week and clean the sand both times. There is...

Sorry if that sounds like an odd way of putting it but I've noticed that in both my mollies and platys that the male has a "type" preference when it comes to the females. My Male dalmatian molly (previously thought to be female) only goes after my creamsicle molly and leave the female dalmatian...

So I did something that I never thought I would. I saw a free betta on kijiji and seeing the pics I knew I needed to try and help it. He was being kept in a dirty 1.5 gallon vase (I had no idea how dirty til I saw it). It had 2 inches of rocks, a fake plastic plant and a conch shell. The fish...

I figured this would be a good place to ask this but I'm planning a future paludarium. I've only had aquariums so I'm a bit lost around land plants. I have a good place to harvest moss (if that's ok) but have no clue about other shorter plants. I realize ivy would be good for a tall plant but...

So I've been wondering if my mollies would benefit from extra water movement in the tank. Right now I gavd a HOB filter that provides water movement but do to the support bar in the middle of the tank (55 gallons) it is off to the one side. If I were to add extra water movement what would be the...