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Is your tank cycled ? (are you familiar with the cycling process ?) YES & YES Are you testing your water with a liquid test kit (like the API test kit) or dipsticks ? API TEST KIT Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 10-15 pH:7.4 KH: DON'T KNOW Temperature: 77 Are you using a heater ? YES...

Anyone selling Blue Mickey Mouse Platies? Would like to find some that can be bought online and shipped without having to place a min order of $30 or more off the big sites.

Male sailfin have owned for a couple of years is fluttering around in the tank. There are some of his fry in there with him that have grown to maybe 1.5" inches. The mother died a few weeks ago so he is the only adult fish in there. One of the fry is relentlessly nipping at his fins and the only...

Saw this tonight and did a double take because I have never seen anything like it before in the year I e had it up and running.! I assume they are eggs of some sort - What kind of eggs do they appear to be? Currently in the tank -6 mollies -3 Otos (had 3 months or so... Never kept before so...

Only the Molly in a ten gallon established tank. He has rapid (side) fin movement and clamped tail and starting to look skinny in his belly. Basically looks like the side fins are doing all the work and te tail fine is just being dragged around. A very labored look to getting around! He's...

I've had no luck in getting these mollies to produce fry - right now there are 4 females and 2 males. I see a lot of mating going on....I see big swollen bellies on the females....but never see any fry. I guess they get eaten before I ever see them? I've added Javamoss to top right corner of...

Hi - I have 3 otos in my 26G tank along with 6 mollies. They've been in there 1 week and totally eradicated the tanks' diatom algae (woo hoo!). But i am concerned that they may now not get enough food. Whenever i drop an algae wafer in the tank the mollies attack it and the otos don't stand a...

Had the 2 silver sailfin Molly females about a month and have not once seen the black male Molly chasing / trying to mate with them. He only chases the black female Molly. Do these breeds mix?? Is so why do you think this is happening?

Hi all - i Currently have a 26 gallon with 9 neon tetras, 3 black mollies (2M,1F) and 2 silver sail-fin mollies (both female). Thinking of trading in the neons so I can add a few other species of livebearers such as Swordtails and Platies. With 5 mollies already in there could I add 3...

Have had a run of bad luck with sick fish lately - latest casualty in my "wobbly molly" post in the unhealthy fw forum. anyway, came home today to see my alpha-male mollie in a very odd straightline position under some javamoss. it looked like his tail had been chopped off, but come to find out...

Can anyone help? Molly in quarantine tank started off fairly active but over course of the 30 day period is now not doing much swimming, just kinda treading water in one or two places throughout the day. Although she does move around every once in a while. She was initially doing a fish in...

It's been 3 weeks since I got my latest 2 female mollies. I lost one of them about a week ago (likely either an acclimation issue or she couldn't hack the fish in cycling) but the other one has been Behaving quite normal (eating , swimming around, some but not too much hiding). Is it safe to...

Have a breeder box ready to go but not sure how close we are to show time. Any guesses? Thoughts anyone? She's still fairly young, lil less than a year I think, so while she is not as big as older more experienced female mollies she could be pretty close based on her size (relative to...

Tank set up in early Dec and saw them first popup in February. I have 26G with sand substrate. I hear the cause is silicates and since they have not cleared up on their own I suppose that silicates are in the my city water or sand, neither of which I can do much about. That said I'd love to get...

>>Background Acquired a couple of 6-8 mo old gold dust lyretail Molly females yesterday to balance out M:F ratio in my 26 gallon display tank. They are gorgeous! So excited. Right now they're in quarantine which I intend to keep them in for 30 days... in my spare tank, which is a 5 gallon...

I'm looking for a couple of young female mollies (3-6 mos) with bright coloration to balance out the M:F ratio in my tank. Already have black and Dalmatian breeds. Ideally a gold dust and a platinum... But a marbled could work too. Must be willing to ship. Let me know if you can help.

So back in December I bought i went to the LFS and bought two Molly fry ... 1 male 1 female is what I asked for. The LFS guy studied the two pretty closely (prob bc they were so small) and said yep- here you go. 1 M and 1 F. As they grew I could have sworn I saw one with a gono and one withe...

This is so hard to judge on young fish Pic quality jot great, but how close to birthing do you think this young Molly is? Seems to me like within a week or so but I am so new at this.

I put this together using an air pump, and extra lift tube I had, some rubber bands and this extra sheet of filter media I had on hand. This is the media which I essentially just rolled up into a cylinder shape around the lift tube. So will this 60 sec set up work? Or are there design flaws?

My tank has been running fully cycled for about 3 months now. I do 25% PWCs every week... But I've yet to dare to clean the actual filter housing for the HOB filter, or my sponge filter (since it took me so long to cycle in the first place). I'm getting ready to do this tomorrow and want to...

My blue mickey mouse platy gave birth yesterday to an unknown amount of fry. i don't have an extra tank for them at the moment and to date they have been successfully hiding in plastic plants and avoiding the two platy adults. This is my first time rearing fry and I have questions!!! 1 - i...

Forgot to plug my heater back in after a PWC this morning. Tank temp usually 80 degrees and now is 73 degrees. I just plugged it back in - is it alright to let it go back up to 80 as soon as it can get itself there? Tank inhabitants are 3 mollies and 9 neon tetras It's a 26 gallon w/an...

I bought a couple of blue Mickey mouse platies this past week and had them shipped to my house. The young female is huge-pregnant and looks like she is going to pop soon. She and the male I bought are already in my quarantine tank and will stay there for a month before moving to the main...

Looking for a male and female BMMP, preferably juveniles (less than 6 months old). Must be willing to ship. Also, a red Platy , preferably female juvie, wanted too (not the red wag type... Just the red). Thanks.

I am running a 26gallon with: -3 juvie dalmation mollies 1M/2F -9 neon tetras Filtration: aqeon 30, aqeon 10 and a 4x4 Sponge filter The wife and I are recently smitten with the red platy and also a blue Mickey mouse platy. Based on existing set up would it be doable, bioload wise, to add...