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I have a 55 gallon tank with about 15 fish. Mollies, plates. Well nature has taken it course and there are some small fry in my tank. I count five that have gotten big enough to make it with out being eaten so that is about all my tank will hold without trouble. Question- What to do with the...

Thanks for the reply and help guys. Another question. I know at sometime I will have more fish than my tank will support. What to you guys do with the extra fish? My tank is a 55 gallon and with drift wood and other stuff I have maybe 45 gallons of water. At this time I have 13 adult platies and...

I have some platies and mollies and one or two of the has had babys. They are about 5 days old and seem to be doing just fine. My question is when will I be able to see any color on them? As of now they are mostly light grey or even transparant. Also will mollies and platies of different colors...

Well the orange molly died and now I have one of my white ones swimming with his tail up. He trys to level off but it always goes back up. I also had a black molly to die this morn and he didn't act strange at all. I'm afraid my tank is going to crash and I just don't know what to do. Water...

What is the best way to vaccum a tank when there is alot of plants in it? I never had live plants before just plastic so moving them wasn't a problem. But with live plants I don't want to disturb the roots but at the same time I know somewhere down the line it will need vaccumed. How do you guys...

At the time I introduced the 10 fish the water was fine and during the whole time they were in the tank and even as they were dieing it was fine. I do use the test strips but at no time did the test read high when the fish were in the tank. I went through 30 test strips in less than 2 weeks. I...

If that is the case why did the water always check out fine?

Thanks for the reply. What would you suggest as a good fish to keep? Also does anyone know of a good web site that shows pictures of different fish. The reason I got the molleys was of the different bright colors and my grandson likes them but at this time I'm about ready to get plastic fish...

The tank cycled for over a month with two fish in it. When it had cycled I added about 10 molleys. Everything was just fine untill about two weeks later I had all but three died off in 24 hours. Treated the tank for ick. Don't know if that was it but didn't know what else to do. Seemed to help...

Nitrate below 20ppm nitrite 0 Ammonia 0 I cleaned the tank with vinager and took it outside and rinsed and rinsed it with a garden hose. New gravel, new filter elements, old drift wood that had been in the tank for years. Tank gets a 1/4 to 1/3 water change each week with water that has been...

I have had my 55 gallon tank up and running for a couple a months and so far it has been nothing but trouble. Fish dieing all the time. This is an old tank that I kept running for years before the tear down and cleaning. Everyone said it was the water but it always checked out just fine. I even...

HOTDOG!!! My fish all made it through the night! Maybe just maybe the plague or whatever it was is over. Thanks for all the info guys it really helped. :rolleyes:

I have been using test kits with paper strips. Someone told me these weren't the best. What are the best ones in your experience and why? Also cost and where to get them? Internet, fish store, ect. The only places I have local are a petco and walmart.Thank you

Does it contain copper? Well I really don't know and it doesn't say on the label but that doesn't explain why they were dieing before I added the quick cure. Thanks for the info.

Just waking up here and am reading the posts. I have been using quick cure. That is the name of the product on the bottle. Also my nitrAte is at or just below 40ppm. One more dead fish this morning. A small gold with black tail molley. The rest of the fish look great. Maybe just maybe its over .