i have a platy i want to give away. your snake is welcome to it.

not really, but i am giving up the platys. i just dont like how the male harasses the females. it makes me crazy to see him chasing them all damn day and night. also, the neons appear to be avoiding him. i htink thats why they are hanging out behind the fake log.

damn platy.

so im turning in those mickey mouse platys and getting

3 more kuhli loaches

i dont know if i should get a male betta or not. i hear they dont bother anyone but other male bettas.

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and you can run, and run some more
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It says in wiki that platys are simular to mollys. That's what they have at the fish store here. I was thinking of getting some. You suppose they would pick on my goldfishies though?

these sound like things i can do. my fish tank is in the living room and does get exposed to natural light but there's no where else for it to go. i used to have some fish that ate algae but the current tank is only 5 gallons and can't handle more than the 4 small fish that are in there. maybe there are 3. idk. i always forget.

i assume there's some kind of kit to check the levels? is that something the filter does anyway? that thing should probably be scrubbed too. balls.

I have about 25 goldfish in a 10 gallon tank. I'd read somewhere that air bubbles stick to the stuff in the tank and that will stick to the filter. Use a coat hanger to get the stuff up in the water. Or a piece of rag on the end of a coat hanger for the sides. Then just clean the filter with a hose. Problem solved. I'd read somewhere also you should test the water once a week to be safe. A 6 month supply of test strips costs about $15.

dont scrub the filters! the filter not only filters, but it houses most of the beneficial bacteria that breakdown ammonia into nitrite and nitrite into nitrate. ammonia and nitrite are very harmful to the fish. ammonia can burn the gills leaving the fish unable to breathe. i dont know what nitrites do, but detectable levels of that cause fish issues as well. nitrates are not that big of a deal for the fish, but they do feed algae.

Aquarium Pharmaceuticals Freshwater Master Test Kit Test Kits <<here is a good price. at the fish store they cost baout 35, but you can get them online for under 20 when you look. this will last months. test once a day. if levels are high, 50% water changes should be done daily, until you can get the levels down.

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the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats

oh lol. i didn't mean the filter. i meant the thing the filter bag sits in. it's this black plastic box.

idk. i think i might just buy a new one and start from stratch. i'll definately buy a water testing kit though. i never knew any of that.

My dojo loaches can't hide, they are too big. The clown loach hides in a little skull thing. I see him come out to eat. When he sleeps he is upside down.

The kuhli's hide under the plants but they are getting so big I can see their tails some times.

I do everything I shouldn't do but seem to not kill them and my little community seems to work. I condition the water right out of the sink although it's filtered water. I don't let it sit out and get to room temperature. I take the plants and skull and my fake lilypad (for the newt) and soak them in a bleach and water mix to rid myself of the black algae. I vacuum the bottom of the tank and change the water often.

I rinse the shit out of everything and the fish keep living. Very confusing..lol.

I got a couple of mollys and they are happily munching on the algae. They are doing a better job at it than the cyclopsipuss fish I got for that.

well my bully male platy stressed one of the females so badly that she died yesterday. its so SHITTY and my son was crying. so i tookt he other two platys back, got five cool looking rasboras, some plants and an APPLE SNAIL (which is the whole reason i wanted a tank in the first place. years ago, i saw lily's apple snail and decided i wanted one). and now my tank is lovely.

even the neons are coming out to play.

__________________
the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats

The mollies jump out of the water a lot. They must be happy. I got another molly. I have an aluminum one. A grey one and an orange and white one. The ones I got yesterday are so bloated with algae they look like they might pop. The new grey one is all darting around with his fin up. I saw him in the tank and he looked really aggresive so I got him. I wasn't sure I got the right one or if there is something wrong with him. He seems ok, darts around the tank alot though.

There was a Beta loose in the tank at the store and the gray molly probably was fighting it. He's acting all crazy.

I have 8 snakes, heres a few of them

Rio - the Brazilian rainbow boa


Molly - one of my royal pythons


Rocky - Common boa constrictor


Sydney - Jungle carpet python


I also have 2 corn snakes, a colombian rainbow boa and another royal python.

The CRB, BRB, Carpet python and common boa are all only a year old, so have plenty of growing still to do

Here is my grey molly.

This is the aluminum one and the gray.

Here is the aluminum one and the yellow one.

I'm going to name this one 'Lemmy' because he is sort of lemon colored.

creepyer are you going to feed them to your snake?

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the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats

No. Just the feeder fish. Not the mollies.

I think the white molly had babies, maybe the grey one.
There was four of them but the goldfish ate two and one of them was dead. I put this one in another tank. It's rather blurry but where it says tropical flakes in mirror, it's head is above the l in tropical. it's about this big; o--

Checkout my baby. It's about 3mm long. It swims around the tank every once in a while.

Ha! I have two babies in the little tank now. There is at least one more in the big tank but it's hiding so I can't catch it. I'm sure they're mollies though. They look like mollies only real small.