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Youtube is not the only answer out there and anyone can make and post a video without having any real information on the subject. :whistle: It's a fairly new product ( less than a year) but it's been reviewed before and shown to be very accurate.

Correct. If your tank is cycled and you see an ammonia reading, 1st confirm your result with either a second test or someone else testing the water and 2nd, if it's confirmed, do a water change and start figuring out why it was there. ( i.e. I added more fish, I overcleaned the tank, I thought I...

Because toxicity levels can be over the deadly level if you do them separately. This is the nitrogen cycle on a graph so you can see that ammonia and nitrite can both be present in an uncycled tank.

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Yes, mollies have a more rounded front but when they are pregnant, they get more rounded in the back as well. If they were ever with a male Molly or male Guppy, ( I see a male Guppy in your 2nd pic), the fish are either pregnant or holding sperm already. (If these are balloon Mollies, it will be...

There is much debate on which microbe or microbes are actually doing the nitrification but one thing holds true about them all: They are aerobic in nature so they will be found where there is an oxygen level high enough to support them. The higher the oxygen level, the more microbes will be...

A lot. You won't even have to get more Guppies than what you already have. They will fill it for you. ;) ;) If you want them to fill it faster, just get one male and put it in with the females. :brows:

Better safe than sorry. :thumb:

Most don't. :( When I was breeding Oscars, my Mentor told me that I had to learn how to breed goldfish to feed them all so that they had healthy fish to eat. ( And that was back in the 1960s before there was any of today's health problems with feeder fish. )

Normally I would say Yes but your situation is the following: IF you have any disease in the Guppy tanks or inside the fish themselves, you could contaminate the 40 by putting the fry in there. Some fish diseases are passed from Mother to child. Because of this, you run the risk of having...

There is no guarantee the females will eat the fry. Some do and some don't. There is a guarantee that the tank will get very overcrowded if the population does not get thinned regularly. :whistle:

At this point, forget the males unless you get rid of the females. If not, you will be getting babies until the fish die. The females will eventually stop having babies without any males in about a year or 2 or 3. ;) Until then, you are stuck with getting rid of fish.

I've got families of squirrels living in my yard. I don't need to feed more. ;) LOL I- 4 is now a death trap. I hate driving on it and in fact, go so far out of my way to get to I-95 when I go North that I don't get onto it until Jacksonville!!!

OOPS!!! I help so many I don't really look at the names anymore, I just answer the questions. ( At least I remembered the situation. ;) (y) Do I get points for that? :D) I would still check them both again just to make sure. Some plastic does have the ability to absorb things so it might be...

The question was : Can I add 4 guppies to my 40 gallon, and would be big enough for the babies? The answer is: not if you want to keep the guppies. Her fish are not Guppy friendly.

The Red eyes and the Glo Tetras will eat the fry and may chew on the guppy's tail. Not a good mix. Even worse if you tried with male Guppies. 😲

Just to toss my 2 cents into this conversation, I never used RO water when I was breeding wild caught S. American fish. I used rain water. Rain water is the same as RO water. If you were keeping hard water fish, it would need to be remineralized. ( i.e. Marine fish, many African Cichlid species...

Marine tanks are very different than freshwater tanks. Besides the actual nitrogen cycling process, even the microbes that do the denitrification are different so when you are ready for a marine tank, throw away 90% of what you know about freshwater tanks and do some learning about keeping...

You obviously type faster than I do. :lol: There was no reply when I started typing and was when I posted it. ;):ROFLMAO:

With Oscars and plecos, that's always a possibility. Oscars like to play with stuff in their tank. Plants, wood, rocks, substrate... nothing is going to stay the way you set it up in an Oscar tank. ;) LOL You can try to divide the roots and have some inside the tank and some in some soil...

Guppies have the ability to store sperm so she was impregnated wherever you got her from. She also won't necessarily use all the stored sperm at one time so you will probably get more in 30- 45 days. If you keep letting them breed, you will very quickly be overpopulated in the 6 1/2 gallon tank...

Yes, it's possible. There was another member who had a chemical problem and we determined via experiment that the gravel was the problem. Since you didn't have ammonia when you reset up the tank, I'd suggest the following: Take a clean container and place your plastic plants in it and fill it...

That's a step in the right direction. :thumb: If things are still the same, you will get more in store credit than you will for cash so keep that in mind when trying to rehome animals. With credit, the store knows you are going to buy something so it's not really costing them the amount they are...

Just a word of caution, The Lemons, Pristellas and Red Cherrys are considered round Tetras and can get nippy. A quick search and I found that Hollywood Fish Farm in Aukland offers False Penguin Tetras. ( Thayeria boehlkei ). They will do better in schools so get at least 6 or more if you go...

I've bred over 400 pairs of Angels with 5 of them being wild caught fish. ( When I started with Angels in the 60s, I was getting either wilds or 1 or 2 generations from wild.) They are very different fish from the domesticated ones. They ( wild caughts) are not for smaller tanks.