Recent content by ohbabyme

Thanks for all the information you have given me. I am trying to deplete the crawdad population, but haven't been successful in giving any away. Would the addition of a second filter have any positive effect? Currently I have a HOB AquaClear 30 for the 20 gallon tank. Is this enough? The one...

Today the fish actually looks worse. Still head down, bloated belly and white to clear feces. I have another fish with the same kind of feces that isn't swimming hardly at all. When I tested the water today, the nitrite was over 5ppm, which is really weird. The ammonia level was 1-2ppm and I...

I am using the API FW master test kit. I thought it was odd too, so I retested and it came back the same. With water changes I have it down to 1ppm now, and I am going to retest in the morning. One thing I failed to mention is that one swordtail and two gold dusts are new to the tank today, but...

I wish you luck with your Swordtail! My Panda Moon Molly had this happen to her as well, and I discovered too late what was wrong and we lost her. Good luck!

I have a twenty gallon tank with 3 Dalmatian Mollies, 3 Red Swordtails, 3 Gold Dust Mollies, and 4 crawdads. One of the Dalmatian Mollies is swimming in circles mostly, head down, tail up. I found him like this earlier today, and have him in a breeding net to prevent the crawdads from snacking...

Yes, I am very aware. The reason I am looking for rapid breeders is the fry population is controlled by the crawdads, which they need for their diet. It sounds cruel, but I'd rather have the fry get eaten instead of the larger fish. Circle of life and all.

I currently have a 20 gallon tank with one female gold dust molly, two adult and two adolescent crawdads. I am looking to add some new fish to the tank, preferably some the breed rapidly. I am definitely getting two more mollies, one male and one female, but I'm not sure what other fish breed as...

Both tanks have LED lights which don't produce much heat at all. We live in a basement apartment with baseboard boiler heaters which we can't control. Most of the time a window is cracked in the tank rooms, but that only helps a little. I should probably just count my blessings since the water...

I will have to invest then! We have a bubble tube in the 10 gal tank, but it's really loud and rarely plugged in. It also lacks a stone. I avoid filling the tanks to the top in order to get the added waterfall effect and both filters circulate the water very well. Since we've only had them up...

Love the fishes! Growing up we always had a fish tank in the house, and the fish were always rotating since my dad thought a fish of the month program was fun. I could spend hours watching the fish, mostly mollies, swim around. Now I am the mom, and my kids love to catch crawdads in the creek...

I have a 10 gallon half moon and a twenty gallon tank set up. I am having a small amount of trouble regulating temperature, even without heaters. The issue is the water is usually a steady 79-81° F. Is this too high for mollies? I just did a partial change on my ten gallon fry tank and I only...

Hi Fishman. I am new here as well, and just posted a thread introduction as well. Any words of wisdom for a newbie in over her head? I have mollies and crawdads.