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is there a male/ female ratio i should adhere to with platies? i know they are rampant breeders, i just don't know if a male would harrass a single female to death.

this may sound like a daft question, but, how did it drain? where did all the water go?

why do the mollies need salt?

that's a great looking tank. i nearly bought one similar to that a few months ago but my wife wouldn't have been too pleased. so i opted for an xbox360 instead. if we ever move to a bigger house i'm sure i'll get one then. good luck with the tank

i've not known any small fish that is easy to take a photo of. i always end up with just the back end or a really blurred picture.

i'm going to ask a daft question now: what exactly is 'flashing'? it's a term i seen used a fair bit on these forums, but i just don't know. thanks

sadly he was dead when i got home from work this evening. the bloating that he experienced was probably just over eating as it subsided daily. after 3 days he was back to his normal shape. i've only had him for about 6 months, he wasn't even fully grown, he still had a fair bit to go. alsa...

are live bloodworm a compatible food for a betta? i put a small bag of them into my tank nearly 2 weeks ago. unfortunatly, i didn't realise that feeding the entire bag would result in over feeding all the fish. the betta was extremely bloated, so i fasted the tank until all sizes were returned...

where does the name come from? as far as i know, it's a snail, there's no mystery about that. seriously, where does the name come from?

just out of curiosity, why is that. a bad experience or just not right for my tank and its inhabitants?

thanks for the advice. the part i'm going to follow at the moment is not to add. i think i'll wait till the betta calms down a bit, or i can house the fish properley. either way, i'll do my homework before adding any more fish.

can anyone give me some ideas on a bottom feeder that doesn't grow too big. i have an 18g tank with 1 male betta, 1 hill stream loach, 4 white clouds and 1 male fancy guppy. only the betta isn't fully grown. i know there are a few discrepancies with the compatability of some of these fish...

i lost a hill stream loach, thought he'd been eaten. only to find him under a pebble 2 weeks after he went MIA. he may still be in there. good luck

i used to check on a weekly basis but when they never changed from 0ppm i decided it was a waste of time. now i check the nitrate levels maybe 2/3 times a month or if things don't look good in there.

i don't have the facitilies to QT, nor do i have the money or space to start a QT, sadly.

can anybody tell me the best/easiest way to sex a white cloud?

back down to 1. my little QT is back in storage as nobby my goldie 'went back to the fish shop' on friday (at least that is what i told junior).

one of my white clouds has done the same but without the fatality. he managed to spit out the chunk, but then went after it again and got himself in the same predicament. he eventually managed to swallow it. since then, i've made sure i've kept the food small. as long as you learn something from...

i prefer neons to cardinals as they are the first fish that i ever liked, and, it has only been over the last few months that i knew that cardinals existed. also i now the difference between neons and cardinals. neons are the best.

check the temp with another thermometer. i've had similar problems recently myself. mine stemmed from the recent heatwave and a dodgy thermometer. the thermometer i was using at the time now reads 39C in my coldwater tank while my heated tank reads 27C. verify your temps before trying to alter...

i'd leave them in the community tank. survival of the fittest and all that. i'm still undecided whether or not to introduce female guppies into my tank to breed just for the sake of feeder fish. i could do it morally but the problem i have is that i have a planted tank and maybe more would...

i tried blowing the air across the surface of the water but to no avail. to be honest, i think the fan i used might have been too small for the summer temps we were getting, it is only a small one, about 1foot diameter.

check that you thermometer is correct. i had a digital thermo reading of 37 C(98.6 F) in my heated tank so i turned the heater and lights off and tried several methods of cooling. ice, fan and lid off. none of these worked. then i used a different thermometer, a traditional 'mercury' one and...

i'm thinking about changing to sand as a substrate, but i'm concerned that cleaning it might be a problem. i currently siphon the gravel that i have and small bits of that find their way into my bucket. i'm convinced that all sand that i siphoned would find it's way into the bucket. how exactly...

i didn't know google vide existed.