Recent content by Aiyee

:blink: I'm 99% certain that White is a female. Her anal fin is quite apparent. We've also had her since January and she was fully-grown back then. How late do males develop?? Besides, she's been in a tank with an adult female for nine months now - I suspect we might have had babies before...

Thanks for the advice. :) Still not sure if the molly in question is pregnant or not. What is weird, though, is this: Let's call the molly we suspect might be pregnant Yellow. There's another adult female molly in the tank who we'll call White. We got these mollies together at the same...

Hi, I've had 2 female adult mollies since January and they have never been pregnant as there have never been any adult male mollies in the tank..... However, I do have 2 other mollies that are now 9 months old. One of the mollies has just 'turned' into a male this week....he definitely had a...

Just drop it in vodka? Are you sure about that? :blink: Not saying you're wrong, but that sounds like it could be pretty painful for the fish. Or do you mean a vodka solution, and if so, how strong?

We don't have any clove oil but we could get some tomorrow if necessary (it's 10:00PM where we are now). We saw the link you gave but it didn't mention clove oil or vodka. Every site we look at on the net gives different advice!

Sorry to sound stupid - could you explain a bit more clearly what we need to do? I'd hate to get this wrong and cause any unnecessary suffering. :(

One of our mollies had some fry back in mid-January and about fifteen survived. A few of these are still very small and one in particular is very sick. We noticed white spots on him last week and medicated the tank for whitespot - this cleared him up for a few days but now he's covered in...

Hi, I've got a Fluval Duo Deep 600 set-up (84 litre tank) which came with a Fluval 2 Plus Internal filter. I'm thinking of changing to an external filter, but as I'm quite new to all this, I'm not sure if it is worth the extra cost. The existing filter works ok, but the water never seems to...

Thanks. Sounds like salt is the answer (only platies and mollies in the tank). How much do we add and does it have to be aquarium salt?

One of our platies seems to have developed a small, circular white patch on his side and has started hiding (more than usual - he's generally a bit shy and nervous anyway). We've also seen him flicking against the bogwood in the tank. The patch doesn't look fluffy and is too big to be ich -...

You might be right. We've got a plain blue backround on our tank and as the rainbow platy is light-coloured, he can clearly see his reflection. We were thinking of changing the background for something a bit more natural-looking - maybe that'll make a difference. Or we could always get him a...

We got a couple of platies over the weekend to add to our 18 gallon tank. We've now got two mollies, three platies and a number of molly fry which are about seven weeks old. One of the platies - a rainbow platy - has taken to swimming from the top of the tank to the bottom repeatedly. He...

Thanks. I've been doing 10% water changes every 2-3 days, when the nitrate reading goes up slightly. However, the nitrite reading always seems to stay the same - i.e neither goes up or down. It's been 0.1 or slightly less for about 2 weeks now. Maybe the tank is still cycling as it's only...

Can't see anything physically wrong with him although it's hard to see because he's very good at hiding. He's done this "jerking around" thing occasionally ever since we got him a month ago. This morning he was swimming around when we awoke and appeared to be eating normally. Just got home...

Hi, I've had my first ever tank set up for just under 4 weeks now. I have one male platy in an 84L tank with two female adult mollies and about a dozen, two week old, molly babies. Whilst all of the other fish appear to be getting on fine, the platy has spent the last two days constantly...