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A few years ago I did close to what you mentioned trying. I had a female while lyretail molly and a male molly. Me being inexperienced at the time and naive I figured if I bred them I would or could get dalmatian mollies. Wrong. What I ended up with was mollies with mostly a light gray...

Make sure you have places for the babies to hide if you want any of them to survive. One of the first times I had a molly that gave birth I had a plastic container in the tank with a section at the bottom where the babies could go but the mother couldn't. I was catching the babies with a...

Yeah, I didn't think the pH up would stay too long, but had to do something to get the fish eating again. I noticed the hyperlink on PO4 and read what it was and I then changed the question from What is PO4? to what you see now and probably did it after you replied. Thanks, I was planning to...

All good information, thanks! Can you tell me what KH is and how it relates to pH? So crushed coral can stop working after a while. Is it bad to have PO4 in a tank? Or is that simply the way you can tell when the crushed coral has stopped working? My best guess as to why my fish were not...

It has been a while since I have logged on and read in the forums and posted in them and so I ask that you please forgive me if my questions have been answered elsewhere and feel free to point me in the right direction. I am coming out of a period of being lazy about doing fish tank...

Yes all your advice has been very helpful. I am going to put the tank in the most solid place I have found which is between the door and window and hope for the best. The floor does not make noise there. Thank you all very much! Robert

I just checked the only place I have seen something that looks like an entrance to the crawlway and it is bolted shut. The townhouse I live in is run by an apt complex as if it were an apartment. Robert

The window is on the north side. I can only tell the floor is wood because when I or one of my children jump on it I can feel the vibrations. The floor seems most solid between the door and the window and least solid along the wall farthest from the door. Robert

Thank you all for your replies!!! You have all been very helpful. Forgive me for not indicating that the room is carpeted. I just wanted to make it clear that below that there was no concrete, it just seems to be wood. There isn't a lot of space in the living room. So the only places I can...

I am moving a 55 gallon tank to my new place. The main floor seems to be wooden with (I believe) a crawlway or something below it. This townhouse was built toward the end of the 60's or in the early 70's. Should I be concerned that the weight of the full 55 gallon tank could do structural...

Due to the recent loss of fish in our 20 gallon tank at work (which I am sure is due to my lack of checking parameters on a regular basis and something I plan not to repeat) it appears I will be getting community fish sooner than I thought. A coworker of mine suggested gobies too. He says...

I have an established 40 gallon tank about 10 feet from the 20 gallon tank. What do you mean by squeezings? Or is there something better I can take from the other tank? The filters in the two are not the same size of course, but I could easily move the activated carbon (assuming bacteria...

I brought my test kit from home to work and checked the water parameters this morning and found the following: pH 7.6 Ammonia 0.25 ppm Nitrite 0.5 ppm So it appears a combination of the cold water and toxins caused the problems. I did a 20% water change and the nitrite level dropped...

trent: that is cool about your pleco. I have wanted to feed my 12 inch long pleco by hand but that fish always moves away from my hand. It comes to the surface once in a while, but usually it just waits for the sinking food to fall on its head. unicorn2tears: That is cool about your black...

I suspect the heating was shut off Friday and the temp drop was quick. I only have a test kit of pH and Ammonia here at work.

Unfortunately no. When I left work friday everything was fine. I didn't check the temperature that day and hadn't for a while. Then when I came in on Monday I noticed the dead fish and noticed the temperature was low. I suspect it was colder over the weekend.

What fish have really neat behavior and/or personalities? For example the tiger oscar and red devil can easily be trained to take food from your fingers? Some fish pace the tank with you when hungry, such as the molly. Other fish will gather where you are once you open the tank lid in...

What kind of platy? Good question. Since the baby platy is mostly red I am assuming that it is a red platy. The only male in the tank was a red platy. However I had a female red platy (it passed away yesterday) and still have a female candy platy in the same tank.

Menagerie: When you say spines are you talking about the pointed things at the end of the plecos two side fins? Can the pleco use this to hurt fish who pester him? Could the poison kill a fish?

Over the weekend the heater in our 20 gallon tank at work failed. I found our upside down catfish and 2 gold pristella tetras dead. Later in the day our mother platy died. This morning I found our other 2 gold pristella's dead and one of our glow light tetras. In this same tank I still...

As I recall I read about the myth in a book and heard it from someone I thought new what they were talking about. This was after my male betta died while in my 55 gallon tank. And yes the betta seemed to love it. The fish store person told me the betta had died from being stressed at...

So I am learning. On a site I went to it indicated mollies and guppies are more closely related than other live bearers such as platies or swordtails.

As far as I know they aren't poisonous. In any case I grab mine in such a way that his side fins get folded against his sides and in this way he has no chance of sticking me with anything.

Well, too be honest, I didn't realize the platy was pregnant and so was not expecting any baby fish. The breeding container is in the main tank and I have been watching the fish in that tank. The other fish are not going near it. I will put some of the fake plants in it to ensure the other...