At the moment I have about 100 guppies, 30 adults and 70 80 fry from the 5 I bought 5 months ago they wont stop ****ing breeding, get all all male or females. Otherwise you will have many in a short time. if you must get male and female get 3 females to every male ratio otherwise the males will harass the females and stress them and they eventually die.
It was guppies we used to breed. Thing is the female can get pregnant up to five times from one contact with a male so separating them doesn't solve the issue straight away.
Yes that is true, they store it for months. You can't help that, you let them grow for 2 months so you can sex them and take out as well as the grown females and keep the males Either way, have at least 3 females for every male. Otherwise it's like your missus having to put up with a horny you 8 to the tenth power 24 hours a day. With Sword tails, if you have all females one grows a dong!
This is apt timing. Tmorrow I've got the worst ****ing job in the universe - got to drain, clean & seal our pond which hasn't been used for months. It started losing water (don't know where fom yet - it's all concrete), all the fish died and the pump stopped working, and the wife wants it all back up & working again So spare me a thought tomorrow afternoon, I'l be knee deep in fish ****!!!
Koi pond was it? The pump might be broken because no water ran through it because of the piping being a **** job in the first place, would explain the leak too. Would never build a concrete pond, **** that. Good luck mate.
That's one of the ones from Sulawesi- about 5 or 6 years ago the Germans led an expedition to study the aquatic life in Indonesia and found a bunch of gorgeous inverts, Shrimp, crabs, snails, that no-one in the west knew about. Most of them have adapted well to breeding in captivity- so should their limited habitat get messed up- they will live on. The Sulawesi shrimp tend to be more fragile and finicky than some other shrimp- but they breed well. The red ones with white spots are Cardinal shrimp. There is a similar looking species with gold dots called "gold flecked shrimp". I've kept cherry shrimp, ghost shrimp, mandarin shrimp (won't breed in fresh water), and the only species I currently have are Malawa shrimp. Malawa are one of the least colourful of the Sulawesi shrimp- almost transparent. Those buggers breed like crazy... much faster than cherries even. Have thousands of them... fish, and the frog eat them- but the breed fast enough to replace their own numbers.
Never tried... and at that price, I wouldn't want to. I have eaten plants that have grown in my aquarium though! If you get all females- don't get 'em from the store- they will already have mated. Also, the stores don't separate them very well- so you may not really have all females. Every once in a while a female guppy looks like a male unless you look very closely... and males can often look like females. If you get 5 males from a store, and don't check them yourself... almost certainly one of them will be a female. I hate most livebearers because they breed so much. Mollies, Swordtails, Guppies, Platies; they've all driven me bonkers with their constant breeding. Partially, because I felt the need to "Rescue" the young. Finally- got sick of them and let the other fish eat the young.
If you need help building a pond I posted a helpful tip. Will be on either page 1 or 2 of this. Should def have a look
Just picked up 5 Black Ruby Barbs (would have got more... that's not really enough for a shoal... 5 is all they had) and 9 Tiger Barbs on my lunch break today. They are resting in their bags in my work tank at the moment to maintain a steady temperature until I go home. The resident Betta in that tank is MAAAAAD! I feel quite sorry for him- he keeps circling the bags flaring like crazy. He does not like having other fish in his territory. He accepts the dwarf pleco because it sticks to the sand... but he doesn't like other floating fish. Male Black Rubies in breeding condition (not my photo- mine are all female except one... females lack the red) please log in to view this image Tiger Barbs (everyone knows these fish! Again, not my photo) please log in to view this image
I got two more nerite snails too... were for my office tank until I remember that my nerites at home sometimes climb above the water level... and my office tank doesn't have a lid- so they're going home too!
Reckon I might get one of these for my aquarium http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_thi..._pov_footage_of_great_white.html?wpsrc=fol_tw
what an awful looking contraption. Cleaning that will be a f**ing joy Especially the lower sections, or fishing a corpse out, looks like it would be awkward at best. I'd avoid that thing like the plague if I were you, that or put plastic fish in it.
