Thanks To All Forum Members For Help And Advice

[This Old Spouse]

In Photobucket, once you've signed in and uploaded your photos, click on one of your photos, and you should see this:
 

 
Click on the Direct Link and it will give you a message, "Copied"
 
In your TFF message box, there's an icon up top that looks like a little photograph:
 

 
If you click on this, you'll see this:
 

 
Just paste in the "URL" box and hit "OK."

 

[Causewaycoast]

http/i1320.photobucket.com/albums/u538/Causewaycoast2013/5e823ab101abfee41502d9a1553eff31_zps10a125a7.jpg

Second try?

M.

Bit better. Just need to select more carefully.
Thanks for that.
First picture shows the reclaimed space where box filter used to be.
External filter running clear, but I keep the water brackish with boxwood and aquarium salt.

http/i1320.photobucket.com/albums/u538/Causewaycoast2013/6e94654f0cbc71125b6a4604643b3f4c_zps4745c005.jpg

On a roll.
Front view juwel 180 bow fronted.
Mollies and tetras.
M.

 

[TallTree01]

To get pics without a link just the pic in your post, use the IMG code. You can find it in the image links bar on p-bucket.

 

[Causewaycoast]

Thanks to everyone for help with pictures.

 

[TallTree01]

Is that pic the IMG?

 

[Causewaycoast]

As far as I know, yes.
M.

 

[Causewaycoast]

Success with new Mollie arrivals. Put them in a separate breeding tank. What now? Powered flake food?
What is the growth rate of these amazing little creations?

Powdered fish flakes I mean!
M.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

There is all manner of answers to this, personally, I think using regular flake food ground into a powder in your hand is good enough.  If you plan to save every batch of fry from your mollies, you might need to find out where you can give them away, or else you'll be overrun!  They are very prolific breeders, and a female can have fry every 6-8 weeks without a male around for up to 6 months.  (They can store the sperm, so that they can reproduce even without a male around.)  
 
Many folks keep single gender groups of livebearers to have less fry (males being the obvious choice, based on the above information).  Keeping both is certainly not a bad idea, but make sure that you have at least 2-3 females for every male.  The males can actually harass the females to death if there aren't enough females around to spread out the harassment.

 

[Causewaycoast]

Hi eaglesaquarium

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I can see how this could turn into a baby factory. Still it's amazing
to see these tiny scale models of the parent fish.
My first batch got eaten and I felt so quilty.
I've saved 7 and would like to keep them to maturity if I can.
Not sure how long they should be kept safe in the floating tank.
M.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Generally until they are too big to fit in their parent's mouth.

 

[Causewaycoast]

Fair point.
Looks like months rather than weeks then.
Good job I replaced my internal filter with an external one. I've got space for the floating tank.
Hello from the North of Ireland by the way. Few miles from the coast, Giants Causeway, Bushmills etc.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Welcome.   If you have a good amount of cover for the fry, they can go back into the main tank a little sooner - stuff that floats is great for fry. 

 

[Mamashack]

You'll probably be able to release them into the main tank at a couple of weeks old as long as there's nothing bigger than the parents in there. They may still get chased but they should be able to swim quickly and hide in the plants - they are usually very good at that.
Your tank look great by the way!

 

[Causewaycoast]

Hi fish addict
&.egalesaquarium.
Love your live plants. Plastic here at the moment.
Maintaining living plants seems to me like a hobby on its own.
Just started this hobby from scratch in Feb.
Any plant tips from either of you would be welcome.

 

[Mamashack]

Lol - my screen-name is Mamashack and fish addict is the level of interaction I've had on here. Yours says New Member in the same place.
I'm still relatively new to live plants myself and have had to ditch a lot of those plants in my signature pic after they got snided with BGA (hope the roll-over thingy works on that one! lol) That was down to me leaving the lights on too long.
I have low requirement plants i.e. average lighting, no fertilisers nor CO2.
Eagles is probably better placed to advise you than me. If it were me, I'd get used to the tank and fish first and then think about live plants altho some would say the live plants help to mop up the ammonia and nitrAtes so plough on with them now. Personally I found it easier to do a bit at a time rather than go the whole hog at once. You might enjoy that challenge tho! lol