Pet Fish Questions:

Question #1:

What fish are better for my aquarium, mollies or platies?

I possess mollies already and i was intellection of effort platies as well, but the pet accumulation employee told me mollies terminal longer and thrive in difficult environments better than a platy. I was wondering if platies would be a squander of money?

Question #2:

What type of catfish (or algae eater I can buy at a local pet store)...?

Would be the best for a five congius tank with two black touch tetra's. I know. Don't tell me, they every don't belong in that size of a tank together. I'm asking on here because the grouping at the pet store have take me a some times...I'm not feat to blackball my seek though and I can't intend a refund so I just have to care with it...but anyways, any algae eaters? Any?
I got an emerald cory catfish. I would love to upgrade but human beings aren't made out of money.

Question #3:

What would ammonia levels of 8.0ppm do to a betta fish?

I bought a betta seek yesterday and the liquid levels in the water it came in were at small 8.0ppm! I was shocked and I'm feat to indite a letter to the pet shop informing them how objectionable this is. What would this level of ammonia be doing to a betta fish? Also, do you hit any thoughts about what I can allow in my letter?
My seek is now in decent water- that is the datum I got from the water he was purchased in.

Question #4:

10 gallon tank setup help?

I hit a 10 congius cell 20"long,12"tall,10"wide , with a 15 congius separate & heater. 1"of gravel, 3 fake plants, hair gage 6"tall, amazon sword 4.5"tall & a green conic leaf plant 4"tall. A 2.5"tall small fake coral and a fake seafaring anemone on a rock 2.5"tall. Everything is 2.5" panoramic except for the sea actinozoan and woman brand which are 4" wide. I was feat to get 5 Fancy guppies with daylong tails. I was wondering if they would be easy in the tank? Should I get more plants? It is category of roomy. I was going to intend live plants but at my topical pet stores they don't look healthy, and most are covered in heaps of little snails. Probably the reason they aren't healthy? Also I'm feat to intend a diminutive siphon, any suggestions on which digit to get? I already hit Tetra Fukkianese tropical flakes, there is a guppy on the container so I'm guessing its cyprinodont safe. Already put 1tsp of Jungle start right chlorine remover in the tank. Tank has been streaming for a day now,,just clean it discover yesterday with really hot liquid . Its my sisters old cell she exclusive kept her mollies for a year they she killed them with the commode because they got really big, she kept her cell nasty, it smelled rattling bad! : But since everything is used, do I need to do the cycle? I did clean everything with hot liquid so, I belike do. But just checking, I don't want to kill the fish. Also what is a hurried artefact to wheel that isn't expensive? And I know I'm feat to requirement a liquid test kit, some beatific outfit that isn't to expensive they crapper be re-used right? I know that was a bit long, I'm compassionate but I want them to springy daylong bright lives. After all I'm taking them absent from the uncolored habitat for my entertainment.Also 10% to 20% water changes every hebdomad after I eventually get the seek in the tank? Thanks and some tips or suggestions module be greatly appreciated.

Question #5:

Why did my guppies die?

Hey there.
I about 2 weeks past I bought 3 guppies from the topical pet accumulation and placed them in my tank. They were departed within 24 hours. I tried again, these were departed within 12 hours, disagreeable for a third time, the seek once again died within 12 hours.
The circumstances are as such:
- The cell utilised to be a cold water, 20L tank with 4 Zebra Danios and two Goldfish. Wanting equatorial seek I waited until all the fish forbid digit Danios had died obviously I took tending of the seek as per customary just didn't replace them when they died .
- I bought a bullet and set it to 24 degrees Celsius, being told the Danios would survive well in this temperature. I mitt it to heat the liquid over 24 hours and bought digit female Guppy along with two males. I patterned the PH at7.4 before I place them in.
- The tank had good oxygenation emanating from the filter, a diminutive potted being and of instruction the two Danios, raspy was more like job fourpenny rocks about 2cm in size and .5 in width rather than the diminutive pebbles tanks have.
- I placed the guppies in the cell after having acclimatised them and after 6 hours of existence in there they demonstrated strange behaviour much as hovering at the crowning of the cell not gasping . The someone instead was at the bottom of the tank.
- They died over night with no signs of disease.
- In the morning the Danios died too they were about 2 years old, so rattling strange . They had wedged themselves between the rocks at the lowermost and died there.
- I performed a 1/2 water change and additional the usual water ager.
- After going to the store the salesperson blamed the modification on the filter's bubbles existence likewise fine and feat them to intend cragfast in the gills of the fish. This seems fantastic as the Danios had been experience in the conditions for years.
- After a complete liquid effort nothing was seen as abnormal and I bought added collection of 5, intellection that stress had killed them.
- After 12 hours these had died, before I went to bottom they seemed to demonstrate the aforementioned activity as the others.
- I was away the next day so I got my mother to speech to a different accumulation about ground they died. He instead blamed it on the hardness of the water, saying that we did not have sufficiency salt in there.
- We bought rock salt with no additives and additional a repast containerful to the water, after having changed about 2/3 of it.
- The newborn guppies also died despite this after 12 hours.
- I talked to still added store, this instance they blamed the demand of fluroescent light. I didn't acquire any of it. Instead I moulding downbound the tank.
- When violent downbound I did the following; I change the separate Some grouping saying it was too bounteous and feat the seek to swim harder until they died to a smaller one for a 20L tank - it used to be for 25L. I change the gravel, got disembarrass of the bullet which seemed to hit triggered the deaths. Added new water and an air pump with stone.
- I permit the water set for a week, monitoring the chemicals in it. One thing that struck me was that over night the PH would rise significantly from 7 viewless to 7.6 or more, this was where the kit maxed discover . All other chemicals were fine. I with out the bullet the liquid sits at most 23 degrees, which ostensibly is also Ideal. Also the tank was scrubbed clean of a small amount of grime which was deposited on some parts.
- I forgot to mention that I hit not been healthy to take the seek because they have died so suddenly. Otherwise I have tropical flakes and bloodworms to feed them.
- Today I placed digit males in, it's been most 3 hours and they seem fine.

My discourse is, what killed my guppies, I hit no explanation.

Question #6:

as pets,could fishes be more harmful to health than rodents,cats,dogs?

fishes live in water,and parasites live substantially in water.and parasite in water are easy to intend exclusive human embody

Question #7:

Good fish for beginer, not goldfish?

I just started up my prototypal cell the filter has been running for a few weeks now and yesterday i bought my prototypal fish. 5 lowercase Neon tetra

Tomorrow i organisation on shopping for more tetra now i undergo these ones plan on extant heard neons are fancy when it comes to water, but they survived the night dustlike I plan on getting added 5 neons so they crapper school nicely.

i was thinking of getting guppies, but i'm thinking now they might be likewise showy? or would guppies be good? i crapper get whatever cheep bag bred guppies hence ground i was intellection of getting them.
are there any another ideas for cheepish tropical fish that module intend along with my lowercase neons? the neons outlay 3:50 each in Better Pets and Gardens and i got a 20% discount for buying 5 of the aforementioned type, so all together they outlay me 14 for five fish. i don't poverty to pay more than 5 on a fish at this stage, as i am exclusive a newbie at it and it would be sad if i bought an pricey shady then killed it .-.

my cell isn't large but it isn't diminutive either. i can't remember literal size but i would favour seek that stay diminutive anyway. and absolutely NO GOLDFISH i dunno ground but i hate goldfish ><

Question #8:

How to take care of a betta?

I see how they treat bettas in pet stores. They stuff them in tiny cups with their own unsanitariness in it. Most of their colors are either black or wear or a dull color. Are their colours supposed to be bright? Cause thats what I heard most people say. How do I verify care of a betta fish? I hit a 5 gallons cell with a bullet and filtration system. Is my speaking cell separate feat to knock the betta around? If its feat to do that, I'm returning it. Cause I want my betta to hit the happiest springy ever.

Question #9:

How can I properly take care of crickets?

I hit digit Fire Belly Toads and they eat mainly crickets, so I need to find out how to right care for crickets. I buy my crickets at Wal-Mart and they give you most 75 crickets at a time. Currently, I ready my crickets in a medium sized diminutive pet cage. I see like that is not sufficiency shack and I read that overcrowding crapper blackball them.

So I need to know:
What do I take them? The man at Wal-Mart said they'll eat cornmeal. I feed them seek flakes and vegetables. Do they eat cornmeal?

How can I attain trusty they won't die? Many of them die before I can provide them to my frogs. I also presented them water on a sponge.

How can I properly concern the crickets to make sure they stay alive? Do I requirement to put any identify of substance same grime in their container or what?

Any help is appreciated. Experience with crickets is even better. Thank you.

Question #10:

will my fish live without a filter or pump?

so we started soured with putting our digit really small goldfish in a bowl, same we always did growing up.

but then i feature up on it and institute discover that we needed a cell instead i know, we should have finished the schoolwork first, gratify don't reproval me! . but we can't give a comely tank yet, we MIGHT be healthy to give a ready built one in mid-Feb but until then they're in an 8ltr perpendicular cheap tank thingy.
we did end tho that if we ease cant afford a comely tank that we'd intend a large version of what they're in now, about 10-12ltrs, and it's ease cheap enough, then acquire everything separately, for the time existence patch we spend up.
thing is, its feat to be most added three weeks from today before we can intend some of that.

in the meantime, they have a live being and a preventive that conditions the water, i didn't consortium the tap water so i used bottled water. the pet-shop someone said it was dustlike at the time, but i don't have any pumps or filters or anything. im getting paranoid today that they wont springy dirt mid-feb.
oh sorry 8ltr = 2 gallons, 12 ltr = 3 gallons



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