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My sister sent me this picture of her betta and asked if I know what that is, she described it as a "bubble" and said it is slowly getting bigger. I'm stumped, anyone...anyone?

I'm not sure how to rid them from your tank either (other than a complete breakdown of the tank), but in addition to picking the snails out of the tank, look for the egg sacks and get rid of them too. With that large number of snails in a 10 gal tank I would imagine there are egg sacks all over...

An t-iasg I don't think 2 years is that old for a betta. I have a few bettas that are around that old and they are doing well. I have read that petstore bettas are genetic mutts and are inbreed alot. I would think this could cause all kinds of incurable problems in our fish as they get older...

I have 8 full grown giant danio and they swim around franticly non stop, that's just what they do, and they eat like a pack of wild dogs. My giant danios even eat smaller feeder fish.

All the more reason to get them out of the house.

Add lots of females, maybe 6 females to 1 male (depending on tank size). If you want to be self contained and not go to the LFS for feeders get a large tank. I had a 55 gal setup for guppy breeding when I had africans. Also Add lots of hiding places for the new fry this will increase the...

you could build a 2 liter bottle trap. You may need to modify the trap or use a larger container depending on the size of the fish. http://www.floridadriftwood.com/fish_trap.htm I usually leave a large size net in the tank for a day or more so the fish get use to it and then put some food in it.

Glad to hear about the spider........I hate spiders! :twisted: I feed my fish bugs as often as I can. I have a tank net instead of a fly swatter. :D