Dankerella
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I just thought I'd share my story
Little over a year ago, my boyfriend and I started our first fish tank together. It is a 40 gallon tank. We had LOTS of trial by errors trying to get all the levels in our tank just right, and keeping our fish from dying, etc. We weren't having much success for the first 6 months. At one point all our fish had died, our tank was so cloudy you couldn't see two inches through it, and our one and only fish left had some sort of white fungus growing over it's eye.
Well, we treated the fungus, let the tank cycle through and left the angel fish by itself in there for a month or two. We ended up buying a filter that was double the size of our first one, and that cleared up all our problems! We were so happy yet so frustrated that is was as simple as that! Anyways we wanted to fill our tank back up with fish, so we bought two orange mollies and some algae eaters to get back started again.
A week or two later I'm sitting watching our fishtank and I saw a teeny weeny little thing swimming in there! I couldn't believe it! It was a baby fish! It was so tiny, just tail and eyes practically. At first my boyfriend didn't believe me, but we sat there for a couple minutes and saw it again! We were so surprised and so thrilled! Well, I was more thrilled than him, but he was excited too. I did a little research online and learned about live-bearers. Every day or so I would notice another baby fish. I constantly kept watch to see if maybe I could catch a live birth, but I never did, our two adult mollies were VERY shy. But those two mollies filled up our tank very well! I thought we would have like TONS and tons of babies, but it only gave birth to about 10-15 mollies. I'm sure we lost a couple on the way. She stopped giving birth a few months ago, and at this point there are about 9 mollies in the tank, and they are almost all full grown. And every morning when I go to feed them, they seem SO excited and are swimming around so happily.
On another note, I bought a pregnant Cherry Shrimp, and she disappeared. I thought it died, but a month later I saw it again! Then I noticed two teeny weeny little shrimp too! But another month later and I haven't seen any sign of them...wonder if they're still in there?
Little over a year ago, my boyfriend and I started our first fish tank together. It is a 40 gallon tank. We had LOTS of trial by errors trying to get all the levels in our tank just right, and keeping our fish from dying, etc. We weren't having much success for the first 6 months. At one point all our fish had died, our tank was so cloudy you couldn't see two inches through it, and our one and only fish left had some sort of white fungus growing over it's eye.
Well, we treated the fungus, let the tank cycle through and left the angel fish by itself in there for a month or two. We ended up buying a filter that was double the size of our first one, and that cleared up all our problems! We were so happy yet so frustrated that is was as simple as that! Anyways we wanted to fill our tank back up with fish, so we bought two orange mollies and some algae eaters to get back started again.
A week or two later I'm sitting watching our fishtank and I saw a teeny weeny little thing swimming in there! I couldn't believe it! It was a baby fish! It was so tiny, just tail and eyes practically. At first my boyfriend didn't believe me, but we sat there for a couple minutes and saw it again! We were so surprised and so thrilled! Well, I was more thrilled than him, but he was excited too. I did a little research online and learned about live-bearers. Every day or so I would notice another baby fish. I constantly kept watch to see if maybe I could catch a live birth, but I never did, our two adult mollies were VERY shy. But those two mollies filled up our tank very well! I thought we would have like TONS and tons of babies, but it only gave birth to about 10-15 mollies. I'm sure we lost a couple on the way. She stopped giving birth a few months ago, and at this point there are about 9 mollies in the tank, and they are almost all full grown. And every morning when I go to feed them, they seem SO excited and are swimming around so happily.
On another note, I bought a pregnant Cherry Shrimp, and she disappeared. I thought it died, but a month later I saw it again! Then I noticed two teeny weeny little shrimp too! But another month later and I haven't seen any sign of them...wonder if they're still in there?
Congrats on your babies!!! I remember the first time I got a baby platy, he was the only one left and his parents had died a few days before, but I was so glad he was in there! You'll soon have a lot more babies if you keep all 10-15 in there! 
