Hi,
I finally have fish in my tank!! :dance After a loooong fishless cycle I was ready to get some fish and then Frances came for a visit and took my electric power away for five days. Then Ivan threatened but passed me by. And then Jeanne decided to visit, but again, I was spared (my family further north of me has no more trees in their yard, but were otherwise very unharmed). After a couple of more weeks, I finally said to my husband that I wanted fish, today. We decided to start with peaceful fish and then add the more active fish later. So we bought three black balloon mollies, three sunburst platies, three other platies (orange with black specks), and a cory cat (panda cory I think).
After two days, the fish are all still alive and happy looking. The cory is the most active bottom feeder I have ever seen, he is great to watch. The only problem is that they are ten very small fish in a very large tank so they easily get lost. But our plans include lots more fish. And in answer, one of the fish gave birth to about fifteen fry! I think they are mollies as they are all black. They spent the day in the overflow weir until I came home with a breeding net box. I figured the weir was safer than the main tank as someone may decide that they were lunch. The fry have all been transferred now so we will see how many survive.
Sorry for the long post, but I am so happy to finally have something swimming around in the tank.
regards,
MissMelba
I finally have fish in my tank!! :dance After a loooong fishless cycle I was ready to get some fish and then Frances came for a visit and took my electric power away for five days. Then Ivan threatened but passed me by. And then Jeanne decided to visit, but again, I was spared (my family further north of me has no more trees in their yard, but were otherwise very unharmed). After a couple of more weeks, I finally said to my husband that I wanted fish, today. We decided to start with peaceful fish and then add the more active fish later. So we bought three black balloon mollies, three sunburst platies, three other platies (orange with black specks), and a cory cat (panda cory I think).
After two days, the fish are all still alive and happy looking. The cory is the most active bottom feeder I have ever seen, he is great to watch. The only problem is that they are ten very small fish in a very large tank so they easily get lost. But our plans include lots more fish. And in answer, one of the fish gave birth to about fifteen fry! I think they are mollies as they are all black. They spent the day in the overflow weir until I came home with a breeding net box. I figured the weir was safer than the main tank as someone may decide that they were lunch. The fry have all been transferred now so we will see how many survive.
Sorry for the long post, but I am so happy to finally have something swimming around in the tank.
regards,
MissMelba