Recent content by maranatha

:sad: Hi. Yesterday I noticed that one of my black molly fish has a badly swollen eye. It is white and sticking way out. The fish is still active and eating, but it sure looks awful. So far none of the other fish have the symptom. Do I need to add something to the water? I will quarantine it if...

:( How sad. My kids' favorite baby platty, "TIGER", just died. He was 6 weeks old and had 3 perfect "tiger stripes". What I also noticed as I "fished" him out was that he had a white bubble under his chin and that his underside was white. This was not the situation before. What happened to our...

Thanks Bol! I saw this unit at petsmart.com for $12.99. It seems just right for me. All I wonder is if it will fit on our aquarium. Does it hang on the back? Inside? Outside? Sorry to ask a dumb question, but I am a newbie. Thankxx :thumbs:

Hi friends. I am writing about my female swordtail 1" long fish, the only survivor of my original 4 bought in February when this new hobby began. The swordtail has never given a FIN for any platty or molly in the tank. :no: No interest or interaction whatsoever. However, when we added a Rosy...

Hi friends. I have been reading alot online about tropical fish. :rolleyes: This morning, I read this specific advice. "To properly feed tropical fish, one should give them one flake (per inch of fish) 3 times a day! " :crazy: I had been giving more than this, for sure. :sick: What do you...

Hi friends. I began fishkeeping in mid February. Our 10 gallon aquarium came with the undergravel biological filter method. I have been reading alot online. Several folks have said that, in the long run, this method makes the water un-useably dirty, and that you eventually have to dissassemble...

:dunno: OK We all have heard the constant warnings not to sicken fish by overfeeding. But, is it the consumption that hurts them, or the uneaten food turning toxic in the water? I have 2 male plattys that want to eat like teenage boys! Every time I put food, they act ravenous. Is it ok to feed...

:-( OK Its that time again, to clean the tank. Now, please tell me how to siphon debris out of the tank bottom without siphoning the fry! I really dont think I can catch them in a net to remove them, and the whole situation kept me awake all night. (I really need to get a life, I guess)...

:S OK Time for the dumb question department. I have had 5 adult platty fish, and all of them do this crazy thing. :hyper: They put their "nose" on the back pane of the aquarium near the bubble filter contraption, then they go up and down, up and down, on and on and on and on! :fun: Like they...

;) Hi gang! So glad to find this forum. Those gals at the Pet Shop just dont seem to gain my confidence, if you know what I mean. :rofl: I am so glad to know you guys are there and will encourage me (us) to stick with it, in spite of previous fish loss. Much success to us all! :thumbs:

:o Hi friends. This is my first day here and my 5th week as a fish keeper. I had one female who had fin rot and was listless. The baby platties 2 weeks old kept bothering her by biting her dorsal fin! We bought her an adult male to cheer her, but to our shock, he started doing the same thing...

:( Hey, friends. This is my first post. We began the hobby of tropical fish a month ago. A strange thing has happened twice: a female Platty died , then we found there were Platty fry newly born. We were thinking perhaps bearing fry causes death, but nothing I read on your forum seemed to say...