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I have a 10 gallon planted tank with four platies and four guppies. Yesterday I got home from work and noticed two of the guppies dead and one of the guppies missing. I have no clue what happened. It was so sudden and out of nowhere, my tank is cycled, they've all been eating, they seemed fine. ...

I'm not sure what TDS salts are, but when she said they were salt water she basically told me to buy a bag of aquarium salt and then add a spoon full of it to the tank. Wait a week, then add another spoon full and then it should be good. And when I said I never knew they should be in salt water...

Seriously? That's insane because the platy and guppy are kept in saltwater tanks in that store even! When she asked if I had saltwater and I told her no she was saying how I'd need to get some asap.    But hm okay makes sense. So if I'm just to remove all the fry, what exactly do I do with them...

I ended up picking up 1 more guppy and 1 more platy just now because I wanted a total of 4 of each. I asked for a female platy because all of my other platies are females, but I think she might have given me a male... His bottom fin is a lot more pointed than the others (all the others are kind...

A snail can reproduce by itself?    So they will keep multiplying in a sense? What happens when you have to many then? I was also wondering the same thing about fry. What do people do with their fry? Because I can't have an insanely over stocked tank nor do I want to kill them... I made sure to...

I looked up baby ramshorn, that's exactly what it is!    So it most likely came from one of the plants then I guess? That's so weird. I haven't bought any new plants in about a week so it's over a week old, how long do these things take to grow?    I've been wanting to get a snail anyway so I'm...

Yes I have about 6-7 live plants. That's what I was guessing too maybe. But the last plant I bought was over a week ago and it was a Java Fern, hm.    This thing is now crawling up the side of my mountain decoration! So there's no way this could be a baby fry?    This is so weird.

I have 3 platies (all female) and 3 guppies (all male) in my tank. When I bought the platties a few weeks ago I was told they may be pregnant.    I just noticed a really weird living thing in my tank and I'm wondering if it's a platy egg or something of the sort. It's super tiny, about the size...

I live in BC and it's been pretty hot here for a while so, and my room is especially hot. The water would definitely never get below 70 in my room. So I'll probably leave it at that until it's all sorted out.    I just looked up what a mercury floating thermometers is, turns out that is what I...

Here's a little update:   It's day 4 I believe, and they finally ate for the first time. But they didn't eat much. But the thing is, I think they've been secretly eating my plants all this time. I've caught them nibbling on the Wisteria quite a bit here and there, so I'm assuming they've been...

When I got the fish I put the bags into the tank and let them sit for about 10 minutes maybe. I then put them in and they seemed great that first day.    I can only test ammonia, but my ammonia is at about 0.15ish which I know isn't perfect but its not to bad I'm thinking, especially since...

Thanks for all the replies! Although I have an issue now...   I should probably start a new thread for this, but I'm sure there's enough as there is already so I'll just ask here.    The platies were fine yesterday (I just bought them yesterday), they were very active. I woke up this morning and...

I have a 10gallon planted tank. I have two platies in it right now (I plan on picking up a third in a couple days, but they only had two I wanted today).    What fish go best with Platies? I've looked up a few but there's so much misinformation out there!    Also, while at the store today I saw...

  I'm thinking this may have been the case. He seemed perfectly fine, even with the pin holes. But... Once I saw the pinholes that's when I got over paranoid, started taking him out of the tank every day to change stuff with the tank, to move him to a different tank, to change his water every...

He's dead :(    He was laying down on the rocks, like he was most of the day. I went to do the daily water change, so I got the net out and he didn't move from it... So I thought that was a little weird, I scooped him up... Nothing. Didn't budge. At this point I realized...    I took him out and...