Recent content by Susan Anvin

Wow that's a bit extreme... Counter to everything I've ever read anywhere too, And to my own previous successful experience. So like... Spare me the "even beginner fish belong in ocean sized tanks" extremism. It's not helpful and basically is going to have me trust petco over you. Cuz what...

He's a dwarf frog and he's doing fine. No one pays any attention to him and I drop the bottom feeder food right to him so he gets to grab some first. I think my tank is already pushing overstocked at 10g. I do weekly siphon and replace of 20-25% of the water and my nitrate levels are ok but...

The cory seems fine I his own but I'll definitely consider more, cleanup crew is always good. The Molly, platy and swordtail all act like a school, and I've seen that work well before. The female betta looks line she also needs a friend. I still don't think I understand your feeding answer...

At the suggestion of my local pet store I introduced a female betta to my community tank with a platy, swordtail, Molly, cory, african frog and snail. I had been feeding tropical fish food, plus a cory wafer and a small bit of algae wafer for the bottom dwellers. I'm wondering how to nest keep...

And I have 4 fake plants. I wasn't intending to have young so didn't decorate with that in mind. There's a reason I have an all female tank

I do a 25% water change weekly with a gravel vacuum. Thisis actually already dramatically more than its advised by the pet store and every single platy/molly care website or book I've ever read, but it seems to work a bit better given my tank is pretty small. I use a water conditioner and also...

So the summary is yes, this very likely is a fry from when Candy was in the pet store tank. It's been 3.5 months. So maybe she was still stressed from the move the first month and didn't use any of her stored sperm packets? And I guess I'm hearing I could get more fry. I'll know for sure...

I bought 2 platys that have the right bottom fins to indicate they are female on or around Sept 24. Today cleaning the tank I saw one baby platy, probably about 3/4 inch long. Completely left alone by the other fish. The store I got them from did NOT sort their tanks by gender so taking home...