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Well....sounds as if all I need now is time...

Well...ideal ph for breeding platies?

Alright...sounds good....but once again...will it hurt my fish, or be a harm, if my fish eat some eggs as well?

Last night/today was my first attempt at hatching brine shrimp. Very crude to begin with (a jar with some air bubbles with salt), I don't think it worked all that well. Tonight I've stepped it up, and now am using a used syrup bottle. The hole in the lid is the exact size of the air tube, so...

Alright, sounds good. Today I actually added 3 more platy's, keeping the 2 females to 1 male ratio, so now I have 2 males and 4 females. Although technically they aren't mickies, they are the exact same color, just without the mickey. Oh, and 5steady, your platies share a birthday with, well...

I've had 2 female mickeys and 1 male for about 6-10 weeks now. I was expecting at least one female to give birth within half that. I was just wondering about this. Right now all the platys are about 2 inches, i suppose. one thing i've noticed about these red mickey mouse platys, i've not noticed...

I could be wrong...but I once had two snails, forget what kinds, I sorta overdid it on the salt, and they died. Not sure if it was the aquarium salt that killed them, or something else. But you've heard of putting salt on slugs, right. I suppose a snail is just about a slug with a shell. Try...

Yeah, I've seen those before..however....putting water from the faucet straight into the aquarium can't be good can it? Its either cold, or if you use hot water, it is probably fool of copper and other metals (from the water heater, read something about it), and also it has chlorine in it, so...

Hmmmm...I know that any small amount is bad, however I just assumed that it would be 0 unless something odd happened (power outage, etc), so that's why I haven' t been testing regularly. Also, what about this: What is a good way to change water. What I usually do, is take a some airline tubing...

I'm not 100% sure of the test kit, but looks as if ammonia is anywhere between .25 -.5 ppm. The test kit I have has a very large range, but it shows it as not having much, as yellow is 0, and mine came out to be the lightest green, with dark greens being high. Temperature is about 82, as I...

flash22, that would make sense, as it's the only fish that it is happening to, burning or a foreign object would cause it on all fish, wouldn't it? However, there is a small bottle (clear, ornamental) that used to have a sort of fragrance in it, although I MADE sure that all traces of it were...

OK...so ammonia is good, how about nitrates/ites? could the burn fish as well?

Its been running for a while now..probably about 8 weeks. Honestly...I did mess up and do a fish in cycle..however these aren't the original fish that I cycled with, I donated all of them. I've assumed that the tank is cycled, so I've not checked for ammonia for a while. I've been changing 5...

I have two flame dwarve gouramis, 3 platies, and two algae fish. Lately, it looks as if one of the dwarves is turning dark/black. Today I've noticed an area that is possibly an injury/sore/scrape. It could just be me, but is there a parasite/disease that sounds familar to any of this?

Well that is what I was thinking of..but two questions: Won't that possibly cut down the water flow levels? What sort/where to find a sponge such as this? Oh, and one of the main reasons I want to try this is so that I will only get the strongest, smartest frys to live (and the lucky leprechaun...