Recent content by LizG

Last night I watched my guppy have about 25 little baby fish. She was in the acrylic maternity, and the little fish fell through the slits and were swimming just fine underneath. After she finished giving birth, I moved her to a separate container, so any little fish swimming up the grate would...

Yes. Will be doing PWC. How do I know if it was a parasite?

Ah, water temp 78F.

It's a well established tank, 55g, cycled for 1 month + back in October last year. I tested the water quality with the API test tubes, all within normal parameters. Ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 10, ph around 7.6 She was new to the tank. The other fish seem normal. I did a water change...

She just died. :( she ate this morning.

Our new female guppy is displaying the strangest behavior. She will play dead for a while, then start swimming normally. Any ideas? She spends some time vertically, floating, then jerks and starts swimming normally.

I'm happy to announce Stellar is all better! He goes around everywhere. Yay! Thanks for your help!

Great! Thanks!

For Christmas, someone gave me several different fish. I had no choice in the matter, as I was not expecting that. Returning them is not an option. We will see now how they will adapt to their roommates.... (Fish I already had: 3 platties, 1 lemon tetra, and 1 oto, in a 55gal) Anyway. The new...

Yes. I thought that. He is still alive, and getting better. He still likes to hang at the surface. But he is now venturing inside his tower, and exploring the tank a bit more. I wonder if he is old.....

I acclimated him.

He is floating, but taking frequent breaths from the surface. I remeasured all the parameters, and somehow ammonia measured a bit off. I did a partial water change, but felt very uncomfortable leaving Stellar in there. So I moved him to the very well cycled quarantine tank, that was ready to...

Hello to all. Today, we got a new half moon double tail Betta, Stellar. After we floated him, we put him in his 5 gal tank, which was cycled already. All water parameters are measuring normal. From the moment we put him in the tank, Stellar has not left the surface, and is not really swimming...

Ok. This is weird. This morning, Sunset was slim. But this evening she looks plump. Mind you this is the Platy that just gave birth, maybe a few days ago. Am I imagining things?

We've had our Platy, Sunset, for several months. We got her very small at the store. I read that they can hold sperm for a long time. But I thought we were safe, since it's been months. Well. To my surprise today, AFTER a water change, I saw a baby Platy run to hide inside the tower. I was...