Ruud Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 (edited) Help an addicted brother, without currently any fish tanks in his life, out!! I really like livebearers especially Swords and Molly's. Show me what you got and how your tank setup looks like, so I can get inspiration for when I finally move to a house with space for a small fish room! I would really love a colony breeding swordtail tank! Edited October 29, 2020 by Ruud 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickS77 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 I got this pair of wild Green Sailfin Mollies off Aquabid. Hoping to see some fry in the future. I just have them in a 20H right now in the fishroom. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 2 minutes ago, MickS77 said: I got this pair of wild Green Sailfin Mollies off Aquabid. Hoping to see some fry in the future. I just have them in a 20H right now in the fishroom. Any thoughts on going brackish with these (not there is anything wrong with that 😉). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruud Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 Great looking sailfin Mollies you got there @MickS77. Extra cool point for being wild caught! Definitely a fish you don't see a lot here (in the very few specialized shops we have around). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica. Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 I'm not usually a swordtail person, but I saw this trio at the LFS and had to have them. Something about a solid red fish always gets me. One of the females recently dropped 60+ fry. These guys aren't colony breeders, though. They love slupring up their fry as quickly as possible. The parents in this video are hanging out in my guppy colony tank while the fry grow up in this tank. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 I have a breeding colony of wild-type green swordtails in my infusoria/green water tank. They eat a lot and poop a lot and help keep the water green. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruud Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 Wow @Jessica. those are great looking fish and the color is stunning! Great buy! Thank you for sharing the video, I enjoyed it a lot! Ruud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomCatMatt Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 All my guppy baby’s are coloring up. The most colorful one was displaying for a females think. Do guppies flash? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch_ScruffyCityAquatics Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 These are our second generation mixed mollies. We started off with a black Molly, Dalmatian Mollies, and a orange/silver Molly. I would love to find another creamsicle that isn’t lyre tailed to make future generations more orange. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruud Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 Nice @Mitch Norton, that's a fat looking lady you got there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiethepuffer Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 here are my endler guppies in my 12 long 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch_ScruffyCityAquatics Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 She has dropped over a dozen fry this week. They are everywhere. (Don’t mind the rotalla indica, it isn’t happy right now). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenP2003 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Too many to pick just one to photograph 5 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiethepuffer Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 @StephenP2003 holy crap thats alot of them! do you cull the undesired ones or do you sell them locally? how big is the tank? how often do you do water changes? and do you have a favorite one? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenP2003 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 11 minutes ago, Frankiethepuffer said: @StephenP2003 holy crap thats alot of them! do you cull the undesired ones or do you sell them locally? how big is the tank? how often do you do water changes? and do you have a favorite one? 40 breeder. I have only culled one crooked one, which lives in my son's 20 tall. I do trade in the grown ups at my LFS every now and then. Water changes are twice a week, but only to encourage growth. The nitrate buildup would probably necessitate weekly water changes. My favorites are the endler guppy hybrids! 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemon Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 6 minutes ago, StephenP2003 said: 40 breeder. I have only culled one crooked one, which lives in my son's 20 tall. I do trade in the grown ups at my LFS every now and then. Water changes are twice a week, but only to encourage growth. The nitrate buildup would probably necessitate weekly water changes. My favorites are the endler guppy hybrids! dang that is a ton of guppies! also can the guppy endler hybrids breed? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankiethepuffer Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 here is a video of my endlers. the gif doesn't do them justice. you can also see the least killifish in there. also, on the end of the right side of the tank, top corner, you can see some brown white wizard snail babies. these are also live bearers 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Here are the 58 juvenile dwarf red coral platies I had in a grow-out tank, all trying to reach that last piece of Repashy gel food. Ended up selling 50 of them to my LFS and keeping 8. Such a stunning red-orange color, especially in a planted tank. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenP2003 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 12 minutes ago, quirkylemon103 said: dang that is a ton of guppies! also can the guppy endler hybrids breed? There are platies in there too. The hybrids can breed, as endlers are just guppy variants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemon Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 10 minutes ago, StephenP2003 said: There are platies in there too. The hybrids can breed, as endlers are just guppy variants. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Well this is a fun thread! Keep the pics coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitch_ScruffyCityAquatics Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 21 minutes ago, Irene said: Here are the 58 juvenile dwarf red coral platies I had in a grow-out tank, all trying to reach that last piece of Repashy gel food. Ended up selling 50 of them to my LFS and keeping 8. Such a stunning red-orange color, especially in a planted tank. These are gorgeous Irene! How large were they? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, Mitch Norton said: These are gorgeous Irene! How large were they? At 2-3 months old, they were about about 1" long. The adults don't get much bigger, maybe 1.25-1.5" at most. Awesome community fish, easy to breed, and great at eating hair algae. The main trouble I had was in the beginning when I got the adults. I'm like 99% sure they came from a fish farm that used brackish water because they started dropping like flies when I got them. I ended up dumping in a bunch of salt & minerals to raise the water hardness to 20-30 dGH, waited for the adults to breed, and then caught all the fry and raised them up in normal freshwater conditions. Totally worth it. 😍 Edited October 29, 2020 by Irene 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruud Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 Such an amazing picture @Irene, would love to have a colony tank with those beauties! I am so jealous of the quality and massive choice you guys have in the States. I never realized that Netherlands was pretty good as well, but somehow in Spain its not easy. First of all there are no PetCo and such, and the few mostly specialized shops that sell fish have very little variety and the fish are extremely small. Cory's of less than half an inch are the norm somehow. Anyway thank you all for contributing to this topic. I am enjoying all your pics! Ruud 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosejones Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Four out of my five female platies. 29G. Now only females bc I don’t want more. But they are BIG beautiful ladies, 3 inches. Plump and happy. They live well. One of them is from the original group. The others were born here. 😄 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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