Guppygirl

Good luck with the babies. We will need pictures when they grow a bit. I just love fry. :thumbs:

10g+10g+10g+10g+2g+1g=43 gallons. I want so much more, but time and money come into play.

Fish breeders, please help. How do you keep the ammonia and nitrite from spiking in the adult and fry grow out tank if one is feeding 3-4 times a day?????? My fry are in a net breeder at the moment in the adult tank due to the small hatch size. Do you do daily, bi-daily, weekly, bi-weekly water changes???? or do you use chemicals.(A last option for me, don't really like them). The tank smells fishy, compared to my other tanks that smell like dirt. Ammonia was like 2, nitrite was .25. PH was yellow-yikes when I tested the water. Normal PH is 7.2-7.4(blue). So it is acidic. Would this ammonia and nitrite spike have anything to do with PH???? Any help would be greatly appriciated. My fish don't seem to care they are still breeding up a storm, but numbers above 0 when testing scare me. :shock:

They look a lot like a minature version of a goldfish, or maybe a koi. Coming from China it could be possible that they were laid on the lilypads???? Only a guess.

It's sad but I had a zebra danio do the same thing. Got spooked and before you blinked it had smucked the glass and I am pretty sure mine broke its back, had to humanily destroy it. Not fun. I think that the glass reflected the ornaments and it thought it was heading to safety but in fact was on a collision course. Much like a bird with a plate glass window. I added extra plants along the tank walls on three sides so that it would hit the plants before the glass. Seemed to work. Good luck with your other barbs.

You guys in Calgary and Edmonton sure have it bad with the high temperatures. 30's yikes, here in Grande Prairie it got to 19'C today, yippee. Can you tell that I am a little jealous of the warmer weather, I like it mid 20's but not really any higher, but lately here we have had rain, clouds and thunder and lightning. My heaters in my tanks still turn on so it is quite cool. VERY sorry about your fish, no one likes to have their tanks crash especially when we would much rather be outside enjoying summer. Good luck refilling with new fishies.

Goldfish are good, survived the tank breakage with no ill affects. I am thankful that it was not a tropical tank as then I would have had to heat the water, but with goldfish no heat needed.

Hi everyone, My mom's 5 gallon tank broke tonight at 11pm, what a mess. Stupid broom handle. :boom: My greatest sympathy to those of you who have had tanks break that were bigger then the 5 gallon. The water went all over our kitchen and into the basement, yikes. Lucky for us the floor is just lino. Mopped up quite well. Also lucky is that she only had her two goldfish in that tank. So their home is wrecked and the floor flooded, but I saved the gravel and have covered it. Keep the good bacteria for the new tank. It is too late to go get a 10 gallon tonight as the stores are closed. So tomorrow I will be setting it up. Wish me luck.

Thanks for the reply. I asked because this Java fern is the first live plant that I have had in any of my tanks. It started out as many singular leaves grouped together in a bunch- bought at Walmart. Took off the lead and wool(foam) tie that they came with and tied one bunch with an elastic and elasticed it to my driftwood, the other bunch I just tied with elastic and tried to tie to a smooth rock- that didn't work as it slipped off and now that bunch just floats around the bottom. Now the leaves are starting babies on the ends. Some have multiple-- fernlets.:rofl: The bottom sections of some of the leaves are also starting a new shoot, or leaf. So I am excited. :thumbs:

I was wondering if anyone knew how often they will breed. My bronze corydoras spawned last Friday, eggs hatched on Wednesday. Came home this afternoon to a tank with eggs again. Is this the bronze corys again or could it be my pepper cories (same tank). Is there a way to tell the two species eggs apart??? :well: ???. These eggs were in three clusters on the glasses, makes me think bronze cory. When my peppers spawned they laid them on every plant they could find, and very, very few on the glass. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks.

I have bronze and pepper cories. :heart:

My cories layed eggs again, and they all hatched. So now the question to all you fish egg laying owners- how long does an egg yolk generally last for the fry? How do you tell if it is gone? After this point are they free swimming? When should I start feeding tiny meals? I am asking all these questions because my first batch of fry hatched but I tried to feed them too soon and it contaminated the water, causing a spike in ammonia and nitrite that killed them all. Second batch of eggs fungused and this third batch hatched nicely and I would like them to survive more then a week. Thanks for any advice.

Hi everyone, I have java fern in my tank and just about all the leaves are producing babies. What constitutes a baby?, is it one leaf, one root? Some of the adult leaves have up to six leaves and as many roots( some long and some short). So I thought I would ask that crazy question. Or will I find out how many babies when they grow large enough to break away from the adult?

:well: Do you want baby guppies??? If so then put your male and female together. Approx. 28 days later babies will be born. Also babies every approx. 28 days for the next 4-6 months. The female guppy stores sperm for later batches of fry. So even if you move your male guppy you still will get fry for some time after their interaction. Also your female if you got her from a pet store will most likely be pregnant already, most chain stores barely if at all separate the sexes. The only way to get a virgin female guppy is to raise it from scratch and separate fry by sex as soon as possible, or buy from a reputable breeder who will most likely have non-bred females. Hope this info helps.

I did the normal 25% water change and instead of adding the warm water, I used cooler water. I also dropped my heater temp by roughly 2 degrees. The temp was about 77-78'f and now it is about 75-76'f. No change in water movement, but they have a bar airstone that goes around the clock.

My new breeding quad of bronze cories layed eggs this morning. The males just kept swimming around and around, chasing the poor female cory. At times she would attempt to hide her nose in the corner of the tank or in a plant. Thus the males were unable to create the t-shape needed for breeding giving her a break. Had to go to work, but have returned to find about four batches of eggs on the glass, thou she did put one batch on the new java fern but I moved them. This was so that if they ate them, not all would be lost. I have bred guppies and minnows but never cories so I am so excited. I still have my pepper cories left to spawn, now that is also a quad- 3 males and a huge female. Thank you so much Tetra-cory-loach for the healthy and breeding cories. I have had groups of cories before but never a spawn, so thanks. Will take your advice and put the eggs in a container with an airstone, hoping for some wigglers. :thumbs:

Welcome to the forum. :welcome: What kinds of guppies are you breeding? I ask because right now I have mulities, cobras, blues and yellows. All are in one tank at the moment due to creating a cory tank, so they are interbreeding. Should come out with some interesting babies. Good luck with your betta experiment. At one time I had two males and a female but didn't breed them.

One thing I would do is look very, very closely at your plants (in between stems, under leaves, near roots or bases of plants). Ottos as algae eaters may just be firmly attacted to a nice piece of algae and unwilling to move so that you can see them. I had one that would stay all day in between the tall thickly bunched stems of a plastic plant, rarely saw it until it moved near dusk. They also tend to get stuck in those kind of plants when they die, so the body if there is one could be there also. Hope they are still alive, fish are fairly good hiders when they want to be.

:cry: To say that they all didn't make it. This was the worst case of ich I have ever encountered, the meds, and temp didn't have any affect and in the black phantom's case they actually got worse. Awoke a couple of days ago to all the neons dead and only two phantoms still sadly try to swim. Humanly destroyed them to end their suffering. I think the ich reached their gills, so sad. I love black phantoms and they all died which made me mad. Mainly at myself as I stupidly added them to quickly to the tank which wasn't totally cycled :boxed:. I forgot that tetras are more delicate then my guppies which can take alot before they get sick. The only good news out of the whole problem was that they never touched any of my other tanks so those tanks remained unaffected from the ich situation. I have supplies for all my tanks, nothing is used between tanks, limiting spread of diseases like ich. I have also taken down that tank and put it away. Thinking about it, the tank wasn't in the best place, direct sunlight, lots of foot traffic. Guppies didn't mind it but the tetras probably got stressed-leading to the ich outbreak. So now I will have to be happy with three tanks- two with guppies and one with my other very healthy fat batch of neons and black phantoms. So thanks for all the help, even thou it didn't work in this case.

Found the site I mentioned it is http://www.fishpondinfo.com/rosies.htm

Rosey red minnow are not all that hard to breed. I have done it. They were the first fish that I had got to have babies. Even before my livebearers. The only problem is getting healthy stock. As they are feeder fish they are not treated well at all in the LFS's. Many carry fin rot and other disease. They are cheap but at the cost of treating the diseases they carry the cost way outways the benifits. Also as egg layers they have a fairly high rate of fry mortality.( at least mine did, out of 100+ fry only one made it to adulthood, but then again I was very new to fish, didn't even have a heater for my tank, they bred in cool water.) Males are also territorial and need a place to protect their eggs, male looks after them, or mine did. Mine had a half a clam shell and he would protect it very well, even head bunting a stick I used to check the shell with eggs. Kong as I called my male protected two batches of eggs, not the fry- they are fair game for lunch( both females and males will eat them). If you are still wondering about the rosy minnow there is a wonderful site of the web called Robyn's, usually if you type in Rosy red minnow into google or yahoo search it will be one of the first ones. Very informative. If you really want to feed live fish to your fish,(I don't believe it the practice but some fish need it to survive in the aquarium) I think I would try a livebearer either a guppy or a platy maybe. They give you babies every 28-30 days and the fry are live so no need to look after eggs. One male and one female would get you started (saving some babies for breeding and then you have your source for your meat eating fish).

:cry: Help. My tetras have ich. A new batch of neons and black phantoms. They are in their home, I know bad idea, but it can also be quarintine. The tank is six gallon and the temp is 74'F. That part is fine. The other problem is that this is a fairly new tank so it is cycling. Ammonia spikes and all. Yikes it has been quite awhile since I have had a tank fully cycle. Now the tetras have ich. What should I do, I have added super ich cure 1/2 dose to the tank- yesterday was the second treatment. Came home today to all the black phantoms totally covered with ich, they were okay until yesterday, neons remained the same semi covered with ich. My ammonia test kit is also showing an ammonia increase. Now my questions and/or options-- 1) Remove the medication and do water changes until ammonia is 0 again, and keep the water super clean. Hoping that the ich will go way? Praying that the ich was the result of stress and tank cycling(which it was) 2) Keep medicating? and hope that they all survive the medication and the resulting ammonia spike- as if you keep medicating water changes are out, unless you want to keep treating for a long time. As the medicine gets diluted- then the problem of med-strength comes into play. 3) Do a huge water change sucking the gravel, increase temperature, add medication and pray? 4) Is it possible to treat tetras with full strength of medication without killing them??? 5) Any other options?- As I have never treated tetras before for ich- guppies yes, tetras no. Any input would be greatly and hugely welcome.

:welcome: to the forum. I was wondering where in Northern Alberta you were? I am in Grande Prairie which is fairly northerly, to most.

:shock: Yikes. I hate when tanks crash. I have had two that have done it, not a pretty thing. Sorry about all your cories and your leaf fish. Hopefully you can find out what caused the tank to crash, but sometimes it remains a mystery. Best of luck with tank recovery.

One can only imagine the water bill. :shock: Those fish looked healthy and happy . I think I would fill it with tropical fish, now that would be a spectacle. They could school and breed like rabbits and you wouln't even care, because they would have room. Cool tank.