Pregnant balloon belly molly!!!

NatakuTseng said:
She may be getting ready to give birth, but the signs you are listing make me wonder about a possible disease as well. Just keep an eye on her and let her do her thing for now, the fry need no special care and mollies generally don't eat their own young, the guppies may.

On to other more serious issues I think anyway.

Your first 20gal is way over stocked.....the pleco (algea eater I am assuming that is what it is) alone will need at least a 75gal tank by itself

the 40 gal you give no numbers for just the lakes they come from, which I might mind you both are incompatible with each other and you will have problems

the second 20gal despite you saying that they will be moved into a bigger tank, which I have found rarely happens, is EXTREMELY over stocked, two oscars alone need a 75, then you add in the JD and "Algea eater" which I presume is a pleco, you will need a minimum of a 125gal tank

the 10gal is extremely over stocked, the dojos and their activity level need in my opinion a 55 to be happy

and then we have a 2.5 gal with 3 goldfish, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING, minimum of 55 gal for those three fish period

Personally with the number of posts I have seen and your stocking, I would consider you a troll on the forum, and at the very least someone who doesn't listen at all. With all the info on this forum and you still have tanks that badly stocked, is just sad.

Yeah might sound mean, but its the truth, plain and simple and straight forward, period. Whine and complain any of you that want too.
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I sold both oscars to my local fish store and have not replaced them yet.
My pleco in my 20 gal. is a baby only about 1 1/2 inch with 10 guppies and 2 albino cories.
The dojo got extremely big and so my friend took it.
Right now I have moved my mollies into the tank the oscars used to be in and so my 10 gal. is not currently over crowded and many of the fish are young or even babies.
I do not own the 3 goldfish anymore either..1 of them was from a carnival so it was just one big feeder fish that I did not worry about but it has been alive for 1 year now.
2 goldfish my local pet store also took in and gave me store credit to buy some guppies.

I have been listening and taking advice in and my fish are in much happier environments.

I just really need to update my signature!

Sorry about that.

Thanks for your advice anyways! :)
 
oh and by the way...lake malawi and lake tanganika cichlids are PERFECT tank mates for each other!

They get along great..for the year I have owned them I have only lost one (due to its old age) and they do not fight with each other. In my fish magazines it even says lake tanganika and lake malawi cichlids make good tankmates and the local fish store I bought them from the guy is extremely experienced and has been working with fish for many many years! He also owns those two types of cichlids together in a tank.

Please do not insult me unless you are sure it's a fact. I never asked for help with that tank and i won't need it in the future. It is not overstocked and they are compatable. :)
 
I am sure of it. Tanganyikans and Malawis DO NOT MIX. You say you had one die after a year of old age? I doubt that. Most of those cichlids live at least 5 years easily if not much longer, especially tangs. If a magazine says they are good tankmates, its not reliable, and if your LFS owner says they are he is not giving you good info. Anyone with any knowledge of the rift lakes in africa will tell you not to mix those fish. The only thing they have in common is water requirements. Their diet alone is reason enough not to mix those fish. Tangs are mainly carnivores while malawis are herbivores who don't tollerate much protien at all. There is a reason why there are NO cichlid species found in both of those lakes. Anyone with any common sense at all will not tell you to mix fish from those two lakes. Many of you out there seem to think that a year or two means you have done everything right, but it does not. That goldfish in the 2.5 gal after a year should be pushing 6-8" obviously he/she is not, and thus its care has been neglected. When you have kept a fish to their expected life span, then you can talk about keeping a fish in proper and suitable conditions.
 
Wow..u just think yolu know everything..do you even own them?

As long as mine are doing fine, they are obviously getting along...wow. And yeah mine DID die of old age I got it when it was huge it was already like 5 years old. You must not know anything about fish..you are making all your information up! Don't say it unless its a fact. Yeah right, like 5 people lied that own them..and you just happen to be the only one right?

I don't think so.

GET OFF OF MY BOARD! :mad2:
 
Last time I checked, this "board" was left open to ALL users.
If something works out for you, great. But if it is something that is not guaranteed to work out for others, and doesn't always work out for others, it's not something you should be stating is a fact either.
 
Yes Infact I do own many of them and infact I have bred many of them. Your spouting off info and calling the rest of us who actually know what we are talking about when you were keeping two oscars, a JD and a common pleco in a 20 gal....but who doesn't know what they are talking about?

If you don't want people pointing things out your doing wrong and trying to correct you so the fish will remain healthy and live to their full life span, don't bother posting. You sit there and claim to know all this stuff as fact but yet you were hyperventilating over having mollie fry and getting the "OMG what do I do!" syndrome. Sounds like someone with a lot of knowledge right there doesn't it.

Before you sit around saying people don't know what they are talking about do some of your own dang research. Just keep this little tid bit in mind, I have bred Discus, blue rams, Angels, Betta splendens, Days paradise fish, Dwarf Gourami, Leleupi, Julidochromis transcriptus, Guppies, Mollies, swordtails, Endlers live bearers, Hets, Cape Lopez Lyretail Killies, Albino Ancistrus, Pearl Gourami, Kribs and probably a few more I am forgetting. I have been on this board helping and giving out very good advice for quite sometime now, do not insult my ability to provide good info just because you don't like hearing it.
 
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