Recent content by Savannah80

I agree with you in the long term. We just want to keep some of this batch, but from then on in will leave 'Mother Nature' to it, just as we do with the guppy's. The Gourami are great birth control for out of control breeding guppy's ;)

Thanks ... been watching them both, but no signs of "poop with eyes" yet! :)

Following on from advice I've released the female platy's for now and will keep a close eye on them. If I see fry in the tank I'll try and net them and put them back in the breeding trap until they've grown bigger. We have three natural plants and two artificial in the tank, a ship wreck and...

Sorry, no I don't think they are balloon platy's. The others in the display tank weren't this shape. They all looked more like our standard orange platy's we already have. Our tank is a 180 litre Fluval Vicenza

We put them in the breeding trap as we wanted to keep the fry, but we have two very large pleco's in the tank, four blue gourami and two red rainbow that may eat the small fry.

Hello again everyone. Yesterday we bought two new platy's. Both are blue females, and both are pregnant. The thing is, we're not sure how close they are to giving birth. How do you tell? We have them in a separate breeding trap at the moment, but don't want to keep them in here longer than...

Hello, we're novice tropical fish owners. We had a 60 litre tank for two years, and then last Christmas we bought a 180 litre Fluval tank. Since then we've bought many new fish as the aquarium looked so empty to start with. One of our new purchases were what we were told were young Pearl...