Fish talk

[Nikanika]

This is a thread to discuss your ideas, questions, and fish themselves, if you want to join the topic during a disscusion just tell us your username (and fish if you want to) and you can join the conversation. And if you feel that the current conversation is dulling just ask me and I'll change it (or try to ). And feel free to change your vote on the poll above you have two votes, so fire away. To start the conversation here I'll give a topic and opinion.

[TNHawke]

Mod edit: As it's perfectly fine to have a less formal fishy chat thread, I see no reason to tell people they must use the HoS if they don't want to.

[PurpleMagi]

I personally own 12 bettas and breed them, also a huge snail fan.
Mod edit: no click begging please

[MangoZoe]

Well currently I only have 1 fish, my split tail betta Roger. I've had various types of fish though. Bettas are probably my favorites, also a big fan of dwarf pufferfish.

[Nikanika]

I got a new plant and it's been doing fabulous,

My cory cats are doing fine but do you know how to breed them

And my Cory cats names are leopard and June, and my white skirts are apha, gamma, and beta because they look radioactive (glofish)

[TNHawke]

( I never said there COULDN'T be another thread, I just pointed out that we have a thread for talk about fish and aquariums )

Well... first you have to have a girl and a boy. And it's impossible to tell until they're full grown. Males are smaller than females. At least in Peppered corys. I believe all four of mine are boys...

Then, when a boy and a girl love each other very much, they get together and make babies.

Kidding.

When conditions are right... and "right" has never been in one of my tanks, but my ex-roommate got hers to make eggs a number of times, only ever had two babies survive though.

We would get up in the morning and find hundreds of small, white-ish balls all over the tank, stuck to the walls and plants and decorations and gravel. Then the fish would eat them all.

She first got cory eggs in a 5 gal bowfront that just had the cories and a couple of other fish. A piggy back filter, but she filled her own media bags, so it was better than the crappy cartridge filter it came with. We also got eggs in a 55 long with a canister filter. It was in that big tank that we actually saw fry, but slowly they all disappeared. And then suddenly, one day a few months later we saw two half grown little peppered cory cats along with the male and female in there. We have NO idea where they were hiding until they got so big!

[Nikanika]

I'm pretty sure leopard is male and June the female and now that the temp is better they are nipping each other (I have a lot of hiding spots so they just seem to deal with each other) and I was wondering

On a serious note my freind got a comet goldfish and a neon tetra and she's keeping them in a 5 GAL!!! I've tried to convince her to give it more room but her mom says it's just a fish and it doesn't care, they're dying in there lady can't you see that

[TNHawke]

Aurgh! I hate when A. petstores let people do that crap and B. people do that crap!

Goldfish should never be mixed with anything tropical. They are cold water fish, and they naturally produce a ton of ammonia. A single comet CAN live in a 5 gal tank, but he's going to be sad and lonely. 2 comets need at least a 10 gal.
The neon is miserable. Guaranteed. They need at least groups of three to feel safe and secure, and more is better because they are a schooling fish. 5 neons in a 5 gal tank is ok.

Ugh... sometimes I just want to throw a brick at people's heads.

[Nikanika]

Yeah and the neon died already, poor thing . But the worst part is Alex's mom blames the store!! I swear I'm gonna kill that woman one day that poor neon was sick with what looked like fungus/ich and the comet ate it, Alex told me her mom started to get mad when she asked if they should get another tank just, just....

[FennecFyre]

Bettas are easily one of the hardiest fish I've ever owned. One even survived a heater malfunction that nearly turned the tank into a stewpot. It's a pity you can't keep males together, they'd be so pretty. We don't have any fish at the moment, though.