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It’s a lemon tetra! Soooo cute

Do unplanned babies mean everything is going great in the tank? Water parameters, stocking level, everything good? Does it mean my fish are happy? I don’t know how many there are. I’ve only seen 3 so far. I was not expecting this at all!!!

Thank you for your input everyone! I added a new friend, but I do have a backup tank if it doesn’t work out. Everything seems fine so far, but I haven’t seen it eat yet. It didn’t come up when the others were eating. By the way, can anyone tell me whether I have a male or female?

This is very helpful ! Thank you so much !

Does it eat the same thing the other fish eat? My betta eats betta pellets and freeze dried blood worms. The community tank eats flakes and bug bites. How does feeding work?

How much longer can I leave them before planting? The roots don’t look very long. I wish I could leave them floating because they look cool (and i have had awful luck with every other floating plant I’ve tried) but every care guide I’ve found says they need substrate.

Plants in place…now I must decide who’s going to live here

I hope you’re right but dang that’s a lot of poo in one place. It’s at the base of a java fern leaf for scale. I’ve had the plant for at least a year so those things didn’t come with it. 3 Mystery snails and a dozen harlequin rasboras plus a couple of very tough lemon tetras that survived a...

They’re underwater though? My mystery snails lay a lot of eggs under the rims of the tank and I have a great time finding and removing them (NOT!) but I didn’t think they could lay eggs under water. Does that mean these won’t hatch?

I did search though pages of threads on this forum looking at pictures of unidentified eggs and i haven’t seen any like these Can anyone help? Thanks!!

I've placed a healthy sized order of plants for my newly cycled 40g breeder. I was planning to order fish as soon as the plants were installed but it occurred to me that the plants will probably be 4-6 inch in size which will do nothing to break up the sight line in this tank. I didn't have...

WARNING i'm including a picture but some might find it disturbing! What happened???????? I can't tell if the snail is dead or alive. If dead, it doesn't smell yet. If alive, it's definitely dying right? Can someone please recommend the most humane method of euthanasia? I'm kind of squeamish...

I had to go look, there are some on the substrate too, quite a few around the area where i put the snail’s food. They are moving so I guess they are alive. Yikes

Could someone help me identify these things on my snail? Are they hurting him? What should I do if anything? I’m afraid i don’t have recent water parameters to share, but I do a 50 percent water change every 10 days or so. It’s a 29 gallon tank, lightly planted, established about 1.5 years...

That makes sense. I’m glad to know I won’t have to guard the fish from murderous snails! :p