GoldenGardner

Oh.... Wow..... WOW!!!

HI All, When I started my fish hobby, WAY BACK IN JANUARY, we got guppies. 2 survived my ineptitude, and I received 7 more from a neighbor that are "fancy guppies." They are all doing really well. The ones I got from my neighbor were young and they are turning wonderful colors. I am hoping to get pictures at some point, they are all blurry right now. I got several almost all black ones with a little larger tails, and they are just so cool. I was watching a video presentation that Cory did on Guppies and talking about how cool guppies are and the color combos and it's just so great. But I was wondering, how do I know who has what guppies? The Aquarium Coop doesn't have their inventory online so I can't see what they have unless I go there. How do I go about getting unusual colored guppies? Or planning? (Not looking to get any right now, I have 22 fry growing but looking for the future.)

We had 20 more baby guppies born on Wednesday and so far none of them are deformed.

I think loaches are not for me. I have too many other things in my big tank. I just got cherry shrimp in there, and I like having the snails and shrimp. But I do think that I want to get a pea puffer at some point, but again, I'm going to need to wait on that.

Oh looking up Loaches now!

So I'm sad to say that I kind of freaked out when there were so many of the bladder snails and completely cleaned out the tank before reading that I could get a pea puffer. I dumped the water outside and left everything outside for a few days. (Putting my one mystery snail and the fry into the big tank. A bit of an overreaction I know. I then rinsed everything and replanted my tank and reorganized it. Then pulled the water from the big tank to fill the 5 gallon tank and was going to leave it empty to just let the plants grow, and have one mystery snail in it, but then my guppy had babies and I was able to catch 20 of them to put in this little tank. But I never filled the water up too high, there was about 2-4 inches from the top which is why that mystery snail was able to lay eggs. I was doing a water change yesterday so I just wiped those eggs up. I want to see if I can keep this tank really clean. Before with the babies and the millions of bladder snails, the water was always so hazy, I just could not get it to stop being hazy. I filled the tank up to a higher point and I don't think there's enough room for my mystery snail to lay more. (I did watch Cory's video on mystery snail eggs.) Now my bigger tank has a million bladder snails in it, and I'm trying to convince my husband that we should infact get a 3rd tank, but I'm not sure I can. I may need to have been doing this for more then 2 months to convince him that. The second tank wasn't hard, but the 3-5 will be.

Found this clutch while cleaning the tank today.

Yes! I got it at the coop over a month ago and it has sent out a bunch of little shoots.

I replanted my 5 gallon tank with cutoffs from my larger tank. I weighted down one in the back with a weight that I had. But hopefully will root and not need it soon. Also found a perfectly round rock in our rock collections.

I think part of the problem is I'm overfeeding the tank because it's guppy fry and I'm feeding them 6 times a day. I just kind of freaked out trying to clean it, I moved a chest that was in there and there were 15ish more snails in there all huddled together. I can't seem to keep the water clear in this tank either, it's always so dirty despite doing water changes so much. So I pulled all the substrate from the tank, which has left a huge mess in the tank. I'll take a picture once it's settled. I scrubbed the sides of the tank too and then turned the filter off to allow the water to fully settle, then I'll do a water change. I'm going to dry out the substrate and I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the plants. There was only two. A sad dwarf grass and one with larger leaves. I may try to keep that one partially submerged in a bucket to try and keep it alive, but I can see a bunch of egg clutches on it. I only have guppy fry in the tank, there's 6 guppy fry total, so I think they will be ok without any substrate for a few days. Sigh.... I may just put them in the big tank and leave it empty for a bit.

There are at least 10 visible clutches!!

Oh man. You all are totally right. Dang it.

Oh crud. I just looked up a clutch of eggs in aquarium so I could see if I was looking for the wrong thing. My husband noticed this clear thing on the side with white dots, I thought it was just from the food debree from cleaning up. Kind of like the pellets for the catfish tend to get gross. But now.... I'm pretty sure that was eggs. I thought the eggs were above the water line and pinkish looking.

Yeah, he's a mystery snail. I swear there's more every day.

I do not understand what is going on with the snails in my tank. I moved ONE large snail from my main tank to my small 5 gallon tank two weeks ago and now there is 15 small snails in there. How? What? How? I have been cleaning the tank 3-5 times a week because it has baby guppies in it, and I thought if I had a clean tank that they would starve off, but there just seems to be more and more. Also I'm not seeing any eggs at the top of my tank above the water line. Where are they coming from?

Ok, I think I answered my own question: Christmas Moss Scientific Name is Vesicularia montagnei and Marimo Moss is Aegagropila linnaei

We bought a moss ball from the coop on 2/21. It's a floating Christmas Moss Ball. Is this the same?

I have two tanks, and only started keeping fish in mid January. I had a disastrous start, but everything is great now, thanks to the help I have found here. I got my tank and all my equipment for free. Including a really long vacuum hose. It's long enough that it stretches all the way from my tank in the back of the house to the sink in the front of the house. But I did not know at first that it could attach to the sink, and did not know that the suction would be greatly increased if I did attach it. I also did not know that I could attach it to the bathroom sink about 8' away. I watched a video that Cory did on cleaning, and it was a great video but I was not getting the suction that he got. Also the tubing was so long it was all over the floor and it was really hard to get it to go in a bucket. I was paranoid about getting water on my hardwood floors. It took a long time. Plus I had to do it everyday to try and save my fish. Literally the only reason I kept going was because this was a gift for my son, and the kids just loved the tank. I had them help me with the super long hose. Then one day I looked up how to use the hose with the sink and that blew my mind. I hooked it up and holy smokes it was so easy to both pull the water out and put the water back in. (We have pristine well water.) It was done so quick. So then I got a second tank, AND the bathroom 8' away is getting remodeled. So I could not hook up the long hose to clean the fry tank. I'm trying to do water changes and keep the water clear on the baby tank but I couldn't use the vacuum. I could see all the dirt and grime building up in the rocks and it was really frustrating. So I ordered a new vacuum, it's much shorter, but the length of the actual vacuum was too long. I could get it to start siphoning but then it would stop because it would lose it's suction. So I was just doing the water change on the fry tank with just a cup and bucket. The tank is so cloudy, and everything got kicked up. So I cut the vacuum down to make it work and it works great! So doing the water change was super easy. I'm only taking out about 1.5 gallons to 2 gallons on this tank. The water is going into a 5 gallon bucket, so carrying it out is not a big deal. I am dumping it outside on to plants. So again not a big deal, when I was dumping it into the sink it would splash, but dumping it onto plants is way easier. So I think the biggest issue is not having the right equipment or not knowing how to use the equipment. I am doing water changes often with my fry tank and weekly with my big tank. I don't think of them as being an issue or problem.

Stunning! Are you going to give tours when you are done? I'd like to sign up!

Ok thank you! I woke up this morning to two more baby guppies in the big tank. Both not deformed. I wonder if my female guppy gave birth again? It's been less then two weeks. I caught them and put them in the baby tank. The non deformed ones are so big compared to the deformed ones, it's really interesting. The female guppy most likely was pregnated by the one male guppy I got at the same time as her. Both from Denny's Pet World in Kirkland. Since then a neighbor gave me 7 guppies that he had, so I think the gene pool is mixed up now. But we'll see. The male from Denny's looks very different from all the rest of the guppies, so I should be able to tell if it was him or not. My ratio of male to female guppies is off, I only have one female, I'm hoping some of these fry are females. I read that they will develop their gravid spot at 2 weeks.

OK. So I read that I can put them in the big tank and the full size guppies will eat them. Or how else should I dispose of them?

Hi all! Our guppy gave birth almost two weeks ago. I managed to save 9 babies and moved them into a separate tank. Some of the fry are silver and straight and some are dark and angled. What does this mean?

Ok great. I'll toss it too, I really like the Aquarium COOP Filter. I have a too large of Aquarium COOP Filter in there right now, because I didn't have a smaller one, once I have the smaller one in the big tank for a week I'm going to switch the two filters. It's only been functioning in the big tank for 4 days. I had issues hooking it up to my whisper. But I have that all figured out now.

@Lynze did you get rid of the filter material altogether? @mn-aquarist, I may just do that. I do like the LED changable lights, so I may need to wait a bit for that. Another question about filter material. I am getting a pleco today from a guy in our neighborhood, and I want to do a quarantine trio on the tank when I add him in, I took out the charcoal filter material from my FLUVAL 206 filter system. Do I need to keep that wet for the week while it's not in there? Or can it dry out?

HI All, I got a Fluval Chi tank, like in the picture below for a baby guppy tank or quarantine tank. I also have a Aquarium COOP filter in there to give it it's good bacteria from the other tank. The filter that comes with the CHI and has a light with it, is over top. I think that it's sucking the food in after I feed the baby guppies. Do you think I can tank that off the tank if I have the other filter in there? It also has a light attached and I don't believe I can just have the light functioning and not the filter. I read that baby guppies need at least 12 hours of light. They'll get the room light during the day but that's not directly on the tank. What do you think?