skate

soooooo another nite glued to the tank and one of my platties gave birth to a white sac of some sort, couldnt really get a good look, it got gobbled up by part of the food chain. I figured it must be that?

Hmm, I dont see any fish like features to these wee things. I did a spring clean in the tank, because it was in need of a bit of TLC, so there would have been food resting on the bottom. Having said that, one of my platties keeps offering her/its/his??!! belly to all who swim past her, so maybe it is wee fish.

they are really quite beautiful to watch. In fact Greys Anatomy is on and my eyes are in the tank!!!

I have 2 harliquins and they are mimicking each other and seem to be dancing all over the tank. Is this a courtship?

Thanks to all of you! I have had a very long hard look at the tank 1st thing this morning (as you do) and noticed that the numbers of my little wrigglers are dropping as we speak! Its funny though, I thought I had 2 male platties but maybe not!!!!

I hope it is fry and not something terrible! Being this green its hard to know! I didnt notice any eggs at all prior to my spring clean, so I dont think it is the rams.

I have just tried to get a cpl of pics but they are too small to see. Actually, now that I have a good look the numbers are diminishing fast! The bristlenoses that I have, do look different to one another, but dont seem very friendly toward one another. Not sure if they are same sex or if m or f. The small one has a more pronounced head. The big one very flat.

Sorry! I have 2 blue rams (my favs), 2 harliquins, 5 glowlites, 1 neon, 2 glass bloodfins, 2 bristlenoses and 2 big fat platys

Hi all, I have a 34 L Aqua one tank, I recently did the huge clean up in it, replacing a few plants and having a spring clean. Since I have done that, (I also bumped the temp up a bit because we are all freezing here) I have noticed these little tiny white creatures darting around the stones, mainly near the bottom. Are these good creatures or bad? Are they baby fish? They look like fleas but white!!! The fish are slowly picking them off 1 by 1. I have just been feeding them fish flakes and frozen blood worms as a treat! Im very new at this, my tank is only 7 months old. The big fish are in great shape, nothing to report there. Can anyone enlighten me?

thankyou stagger, its looking pretty fab at the moment, but ive been doing the whole h2o changes heaps. I just dont think the tank is big enuff! haheheha

my little aqua one aquarium has a charcol filter in it, the dude in the shop told me to replace these once every 5-6 wks. If my tank is still cycling (which it is) and I change the filters does the cycle start again? does this make sense?

Its a great little spot!

cough, cough, I have a few. 2 baby platys, 1 male ram, 1 neon, 5 glolites, 2 glass bloodfins, 2 harlequins and a bristlenose(although i would love anothr). They are so prettyyyyy.

A gizzy fish club sounds pretty groovy, but just let me get my last baby off to school first!!! hahaha. Yeah im going to keep up with the water changes, Im a bit nervous though, Ive got to go away for 4 days (oh my god, 3 days away from the kids!) and I have left strict instructions for my wee tank. Just hope the water gets changed while Im gone!

OOOps or should i say slow down with the water changes! How do you know when things are just right in there? When the tank has cycled?

Righto, in my beautiful tank, I have 1 neon left (another 1 bit the dust this morning) 5 glolites (big fatties), 1 bristlenose, 1 male blue ram, 2 glass bloodfins, 2 baby platys, 2 harlequins, shivers, there is a few pisces in there! And im still doing water changes every dayish. How do you know when to slow down on the cycling?

WOW! what a welcome! I just hope ya dont get too sick n tired of all of my up and coming questions!! thank you!

Hiya Dimebag, Quite frankly, Im done with the fish man and all of his advice. Trouble is, being in a metropolis such as this, we are very limited for choice. I really need a quarantine tank, but my tank is so small, I would probably need another! I have come on to the net in a hope to find accurate information and maybe a new fish supplier? So far so good!

Thanks heaps you guys! I felt like I was going nowhere here! Now youve given me something to go on. Will keep you posted! thank you

Santa gave me a beautiful tank for christmas.(Its 34L and everything came in the same box) My 1st one! So far, we have had white spot, fin rot, and something has taken out my neons also. This tank has only been up and running for about 5 weeks! How do the bugs get in? Infected fish? will all of these bugs contaminate my plants? I feel like I have to get in there and scrub everything, but dont want to move the fish. Trial and error huh? The man in the fish shop keeps telling me "she'll be right"

Gidday from Gizzy. Im terribly new at all of this, my tank is new, my screen is new, and Im needing some help with all of this!! My tank came from Santa, its only 34L and me and my kids think its the bees knees, when its healthy! Its certainly a challenge keeping it that way!