Recent content by shammond15731

I am assuming you are talking about live bearers right? They are the only ones I have a clue about lol

I am not an expert by far but I would say no from all the males and females I have seen. There is either a fin or a tube (fin=female) ("tube/straw"= male). Do u have a picture maybe someone could help you distinguish.

Power is back on and everyone survived!!!! Whew!!! Glad that is over, I was about as worried for them as I was my children during the storm!

Went and bought a generator for the house this morning so got everything back up and running.......except our AC ughhhh!! Anyway the fish are happy and oblivious to all the chaos this has caused lol

I am not sure where I should post this but, we were just hit with a bad storm and lost power, and have been told it will be a few days before it is restored. How long can platys, tetras, and barbs go with no air stone and no heater? I am not as concerned about the heat as it is HOT in the house...

Does anyone know what determines the color of the fry? So far all of my fry have been the color of the mother, do they ever get their color from their father? (My male is orange and my female is blue)

Yeah that makes way more sense, I for some reason was thinking it was from the front, which would explain why I never thought mine looked squared off lol.

Talk about PERFECT timing!!!! Last night I decided to move my biggest prego platy to the fry tank because she was looking pretty huge compared to normal all of a sudden, and FINALLY, got up this morning to at least 15 fry that we can see, they are so tiny and are the same color as the gravel...

Thank you!! A lot of great info!! These links are amazing!!

I am trying to do some research on planted tanks and am considering converting my 30 gallon long to a planted tank but want to know how involved this would be. I am pretty sure my substrate will need to be changed because I have rather large stone/river rock. I am just not sure what I need. Also...

Haven't done anything to the tank besides dip test tubes of water from it and it is definitely a white cloudiness which I have heard to be a bacteria bloom and I thought would be odd in this case too. I turned the heater down to start dropping the temp and will probably wait till the middle of...

Not sure if this was overlooked or if nobody wants to answer?? I just want to know what exactly I am looking for.

Ok I believe the tank has cycled as my ammonia drops to 0 within 24 hours but today I went into my daughters room to see the tank super cloudy! Any idea why it has this milky looking cloud over night? I tested the water and results are ammo 0 nitrite 0 nitrate 40 ph 8.2

I guess I am a bit confused about when my platy is supposed to look boxy right before birth. Is the \_/ shape as I look at her from the front or as I look at her from the side?? I thought it was from the front but when I googled it because mine has never looked that way all the pics I see are...

Nevermind then, I figured shipping that far would be way too much. Thanks anyway!