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Just noticed my poor female dalmation Molly stuck to the sucking intake part of my new filter, and this also happened yesterday to one of my balloon mollies. Did water tests on the weekend and there was nothing to worry about. I'm also worried that any fry born would sucked straight in. Is there...

Hi all, was hoping for some help identifying this little hitchhiker that came along with some plants I bought this weekend. My guess is he is a platy, although he doesn't seem to school with my other platys, even though I have one around the same size. I would say he is about a quarter of the...

Hi all, I'm currently upgrading all my fish to a hundred litre tank which leaves an empty 50 litre (Just over 13 gallon) tank, Is this tank gig enough for a pair of dwarf gouramis, and if so does species variation and sex matter? Also, do they do okay in hard water?

Two days ago I bought a pair of dalmation mollies to add to my tank. I believe I bought a male and a female as one has a pointy anal fin, and the other seems to have two much more rounded fins in the same area. Until yesterday (the next day after purchasing them) I hadn't had a chance to see how...

The tank has been running for a few months now so I wouldn't say it's established but it is certainly not brand new. Most of my readings since I've put fish in have returned results similar to the second group of results I posted, the only exception was the results I posted earlier from...

The tank has had no problems, the tank has been entirely healthy up until this point. I have done everything I am supposed to do in terms of cycling and water changes. I only raise the point that I have recently had a blackout and used chemical solutions to cycle rather than other more...

I know some people however don't really believe the chemical bacteria solutions work

The most recent test results are from the tank that this particular guppy is in. The previous results are from after the blackout and have done two large changes since then which seems to have rectified the ammonia spike and the nitrate as shown in the new tests. He's still swimming vertically...

Alright so my second with my other test kit shows a pH of 7 ammonia levels of 0 nitrite at 0 nitrate at 25 is this normal? Recently I had a blackout if this makes any difference.

Im using the API master test kit, which returned a pH of 7.2, ammonia at 0.25, nitrite and nitrate both at zero.

I've noticed today that today one of my male guppies is swimming vertically, with his head up and tail down. I did a water change 3 or 4 days ago and tested the water a few days ago (everything was within normal range). Any ideas what might be causing this?

I've been keeping an eye out for babies but havent been able to spot any. All the guppies seem to be acting normally, and bar the guppy I already put in the trap everyone scoffed dinner so no one is clearly in labour.

This guppy is the only one that looks close, the others haven't started to balloon out. However no more have appeared in three hours. I'm really confused as to where this mystery fish has come from.

Hi everyone. I have my first guppy that seems to be in labour. I bought her over four weeks ago and so logically it must be her time or close to it, however there are a few others that are also pregnant. She is by far the fattest though. I haven't noticed the squaring off or the box shape that...

Thanks so much!