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Sunset platy dying after giving birth This is my second play to die after giving birth to a batch of unfertilised or dead baby platies..just wondering what might be wrong......	friedrice	5	16-Nov-2004 01:40
Deformed Guppy Fry Hey Guys.. I'm new here and too fish so bear with me!! I currently have a 10 gallon tank with 5 guppies (4 female) 3 cory catfish and a chinese alga...	SamanthaStorm	12	16-Nov-2004 00:05
Cross-breeding I'm pretty sure it isn't possible. The molly's sperm wouldn't be compatible with the platies's eggs. The DNA of the two fish just aren't compatible. (...	FishProfiles.com	9	15-Nov-2004 16:09
New guppy fry question How can i easily tell the male from the female fry? I have head that i should be able to see the gravid spot, but theres so many of them!! When do th...	SamanthaStorm	4	14-Nov-2004 23:30
List your livebearers.... I will start: 3 Poecilia latipinna (orange-gold sailfin mollies) plus 60 fry 3 Poecilia latipinna (wild-type green sailfin mollies) 2 Poecilia lati...	Toirtis	7	14-Nov-2004 23:19
boy or girl? hey guys i was wondering if any of you could tell me the sex od my new platy. here are some pics [link=http://www.stuartsmithmusic.com/fish/plat...	stuquarium	6	13-Nov-2004 00:25
guppy question how many guppies can i have in a 10 gallon?...	haRg0wbOi	4	12-Nov-2004 23:42
guppy babies sucking on females tale has anyone else had baby guppies sucking on the females tale right at the back, it's not like i havn't feed them i feed them 3 times a day there not d...	the1	1	12-Nov-2004 17:42
Best livebearer for live feed Which of the common livebearers (Guppies, Mollies, Swords, Platies) are the best for breeding fry for feed?? Thanks in advance --Ben--...	marine_race	7	12-Nov-2004 14:10
Molly fry everywhere. Just 32 hours ago I bought a trio of absolutely stunning, huge gold-orange sailfin mollies from a nearby LFS (which I had gone into to only buy cricke...	Toirtis	2	10-Nov-2004 23:27
Mollies and swordtails Hey everyone, I just started a 10 gallon aquarium with two silver mollies and two marigold swordtails. A male and a female of each. First thing off...	andy_guerriero	3	10-Nov-2004 20:09
Preteen pregnancy!! :O I have a little tiny trio of white mollies. Just babes, only an inch long right now. One of them has a black mark on her that looks like a gravid mark...	smantzer	2	09-Nov-2004 23:15
Your Longest Living Male, Fancy Guppy I ran a poll similar to this, but included any type of guppy. Let's limit this to male fancy guppies (i.e., green cobras, moscow, sunrise, and basica...	Cory_Di	5	08-Nov-2004 20:14
GUPPY SHOW, San Diego, Nov 5-7, Enter your guppies! San Diego Guppy Association Show In Cooperation with SDTFS - November 5-7, 2004 room 101 of the Casa del Prado in Balboa Park, San Diego (by the Zoo...	SanDiegoFishes	1	05-Nov-2004 09:37
two guppy questions How low of a temp can guppies tolerate? Do females generally eat their fry? I have a 6g that will be empty after its use as a QT for some new Endler...	Theresa_M	10	03-Nov-2004 11:01
Pregnant - Not Pregnant ??? Molly One of my Dalmation Mollies has been pregnant 3 times and just when I am sure she is going to release her fry, she gets skinny and there are no fry......	iamgentlelady	3	02-Nov-2004 20:12
egg yolk How do I feed them egg yolk?...	gab	3	01-Nov-2004 22:55
Twitching Mollie Can any one tell me why a Mollie out of the blue would start twitching? she was hanging out with another Mollie alot and now out of the clear blue the...	Roberta	1	01-Nov-2004 04:38
WHAT IS GOING ON I talked about my platy on these forum before about a week maybe 10 days ago and at that time it looked as if she was gonna have the babies within hou...	chizunk	2	29-Oct-2004 00:02
endlers tank I found endler's livebearers at a local petstore! I was so excited! So I'm going to be setting up a tank for endlers soon, and I was wondering about...	acinonyx	8	27-Oct-2004 16:22
Salt for mollys [/font]How much salt should be added to the water for mollys? I don't put that much in at all, and mine are fine. But some say i should add more, i'...	Bettashimp	5	26-Oct-2004 02:47
Help!. My new fish had babies and I don't know what to do We have had our aquarium (10gal) going for 2 weeks now. We added 2 ballooned bellied mollies and a dwarf guarami on Friday. We now have 5 fish includi...	rb	5	25-Oct-2004 13:49
Vertical Molly I bought a trio of lyre tail mollies the other day to go into my tank with 3 zebra danios, neon tetras, a paradise fish, a swordtail, and some night g...	Hooktor	4	22-Oct-2004 01:10
my sunrise molly will the mother eat the fry as soon as they are born because i dont want them to be eaten as soon as they are born if u have any info please respond t...	chizunk	2	20-Oct-2004 21:29
curious i have a sunrise molly who is within days of giving birth and is in a breeders net wen the babies are born should i take out the mother to prevent her...	chizunk	8	20-Oct-2004 03:14
whats wrong with her? I was looking at my female guppy just a minute ago, and it looks like she is pregnant, but when she turned to face me, I saw this big bulge on her sid...	zebra	5	19-Oct-2004 20:38
Algae I believe that mollies eat most types of green algae. They won't eat nearly as many kinds as the specialized algae-eaters, but they will gobble up man...	FishProfiles.com	4	19-Oct-2004 17:22
HELP FRY!!!!! HELP!! my yellow platy was pregnant after all! well i now have 2 fry after the rest of the babies got chomped on by other fish....i put the 2 fry in a...	BabyBlueEyes	10	17-Oct-2004 17:52
livebearers die after birth ok in the past two days my swordtail and two guppys gave birth and all of them died within 24 hours later. what am i doing wrong? the temp is 80 deg...	WesleT	17	17-Oct-2004 12:38
How many guppies can i fit? Ok here are the details, empty 42usgal tank in the need for lil fishies, and my fish of choice are guppies. I want to fill the tank with guppies and...	tweaky	6	16-Oct-2004 07:22
Female Platy nipping a male gourami Hi, wasn't sure if this should go here, or in labyrinth since it is about both... I have a 20 gal tank, currently with 3 platies (2f/1m) and about 1...	CyndieL73	6	13-Oct-2004 00:39
Swordtails and Bettas? I have read up that Swordtails are great eaters of various types of Algae including the one that I currently am dealing with; RBA. I also have a Bet...	Crazygar	12	08-Oct-2004 05:46
Most active livebearer. I would say the guppy....	kitty163	9	07-Oct-2004 13:03
Platty I was hoping someone was able to let me know what to look for when a Platty has Fry? i bought to Plattys and within two weeks i had 15 babies. i have...	Roberta	8	06-Oct-2004 12:34
swordtails I want to keep 2 swordtails... if i get a pair will they breed no matter what? I dont think anything i am planning for my tank would eat the fry excep...	devon7	4	06-Oct-2004 06:50
Could Endler's and mollies hybridize? Since guppies and mollies are so likely to hybridize, I was wondering if the same was likely for Endler's and sailfins, either P. latipinna or P. veli...	littlemousling	6	06-Oct-2004 04:31
Giant Gourami Don't worry, I have no intentions of actually doing it, but does anyone have a guess on what size tank you would need to breed giant gouramis? [I'm a...	puffer_archer	1	05-Oct-2004 06:01
breeding guppies Ok I have a ten gallon with a male and female mollie, a male and femal swordtail, and 1 male and 3 female guppies. I know the tank sounds crowded but...	WesleT	4	05-Oct-2004 04:37
Guppy/Oto Oddity I decided I needed an algae eater for my tank of guppies, and an oto seemed perfect. I didn't have enough space for schooling cories and definitely no...	Mogmog	10	03-Oct-2004 19:28
platty/molly fry I was Just wondering if i was able to put molly fry that has been just born in a tank with Platy fry that is a month old with out the platys eating th...	Roberta	3	02-Oct-2004 23:40
livebearer lifespan the info on this site says mollies and guppies live one year, platys 2 years and swords 3 years. i was wondering what people's experience was with th...	ab20	2	02-Oct-2004 18:56
Molly fry everywhere My wife just noticed little molly fry running around out tank this morning. We managed to scoop 7 of them out and into a breeding tank. My questions a...	Nick	4	02-Oct-2004 10:24
How closely are guppys and platy's related. I'm sure I read some where they are distant cousins, is theis true, any information well appreciated....	kitty163	3	29-Sep-2004 04:47
Aggressive male platy I have a 15 gal tall tank with two female platies and one male platy. The male seems to be overly aggressive to only one female. He chases her all o...	just_one_more	5	29-Sep-2004 04:45
pregnant guppies? How do I know if one of my guppies is pregnant or not? I have 4 guppies in my 10 gallon (3 females and 1 male). The one female is getting fat but I d...	jenbabe256	3	29-Sep-2004 01:27
mollies [font color="#000080"]hello, last week i bought a balloon molly and .. another type of molly, not sure what kind but it has black and white and orange...	ermidontknow	3	28-Sep-2004 21:32
Minimum tank size for breeding swordtails? OK, I have 1m/2f neon swordtails that I want to breed. Right now they are in a 55 gal tank w/ other swordtails, and I am trying to plan out a new ta...	crickit99	5	10-Sep-2004 23:01
What to do with platy Frys Hi, I just added my first fish to my aquarium on Friday (3 mickey mouse platies) and on Saturday, ended up with at least 10 new frys. I haven't isol...	CyndieL73	9	10-Sep-2004 21:08
Guppy Tank? I have a 10 gallon tank that I was thinking about setting up specifically for guppies. Is there anything special I need to know about setting it up?...	jenbabe256	2	10-Sep-2004 15:42
fry feed for guppies to feed live baby brine shrimp or wait and enrich them,this might come out as a debate but id really like to know which is actually better newly hatch...	topekaed	6	10-Sep-2004 15:23

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