Kyerial

The plant i have right now is hornwort. My co-worker is offering me some glosso and some tawain moss, if i want it. would those be better?

I will definitily run over to HH or home depot when i get paid to get some lighting!

So far i've never had my tank smell, tho the water has looked yellow from time to time till i got a new filter (to replace the 10 yr old one) and then it cleared up

And i've been changing the water to air stir up the tank once a day but only 10%

I've been trying to save up to buy a bigger tank because i inadvertently adopted my friends fish because she was trying to kill them off guess she got bored with them other wise i'd just have a tiny cory and the SD loach,

So i'm definetly overstocked but i always thought the mess was the guppies

I've been contemplating carpeting my 10 gallon with Riccia Fluitians but i have never had real plants in my tank before that have lived past a week ( Lack of decent light) and am not sure if this is the best plant for me to start with, as well as Due to a power outage while i was at work my water filters motor burnt out ( a co-worker gave me a hardy plant to put oxygen in the tank so they wont all die till i can afford a new filter) Would i need to buy a new motor or can the plants maintian the oxygen levels? and can the tank be kept clean with just my cory, plecos and i believe pond snails ( tho i have a Siamese dwarf loach so those guys are not really an annoyance anymore just fine detail cleaners i'll have to see what they do to my "hard to kill" plant i cant remember the name)

I would love to see a picture of your fish, it sounds really interesting

I have several female guppies all with HUGE stomaches but have never seen a baby or had a female change size other then to slowy get bigger length wise but the longer they get the fatter they look ( i havent't been able to see them clearly enough to see if they have a gravid spot or not

Big fat belly equals pregnant from what i can tell. And about the skew from male to female what you said about the smart ones surviving.... well my mind went in a completely un fish related direction :smokey: and i had a laugh. But to answer your question 100% my guppy tank wasn't heated and there was a decent mix of male and female guppies with the females being less in the winter months.

Hope this helps

L

Thanks and I definitely will

Welcome aboard. Lot of info here. Read and if you cannot find the answer, ask and some one here has probably encountered it before and has a ready answer. Good bunch of fish heads!!

I currently own male and female guppies, a dwarf Siamese loach ( Who greatly enjoys the ever growing snail population), 2 plecos, a turquoise betta and a Cory. catfish

Hey ya'll i'm new to owning something other then your starter run of the mill gold fish and tetras i was told by a friend that this was a good site where i could get help from others and be able to talk with other people interested in owning aquatic life etc.