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You're not being rude are you? I'm only sharing my experiences. I've seen first-hand both of these fish called odessa barbs online, brick-and-mortar fish stores, and websites. I had no idea there were 2 different species both called Odessa Barb! I understand P. padamya is the usual Odessa we...

I just learned there are at least 2 species of Odessa Barb; Puntius ticto and Pethia padamya. I think it's confusing; they look quite different! Worse, P. pedamya is sometimes known as Ticto Barb; the species name of the previous fish! They're clearly within a different genus and are a...

Why can't you add a predator yet? I'd hope the tank is cycled since it has fish in it... Pictus catfish are one of the best for overpopulated livebearer tanks. They don't usually eat adults. They snack on fry and juveniles (for the most part.)

Oh I'm in love!!

Wow, that's all? To answer your question; Salvini cichlids get between 6 and 9 inches (15 and 23 cm.) They're known to be very territorial which isn't good for most species. However, as with all aggressive fish, it CAN be done. (I should mention: I don't have experience with this species or...

How do you have such magnificent anubias!?

Although I've never had pennywort in high light, I'm growing it in low/moderate. It grows so fast in my low-tech walstad I have to trim it every 1-2 weeks or the roots tangle! The other tank has pennywort cuttings. It's not a walstad and doesn't even have substrate, and though it grows a lot...

Hi friends! About a week and a half ago I jumped on the opportunity (again) to purchase a few JTS from my local petco. I added a pair to my goldies tank. They weren't doing so swell, I suspect bc of the high flow? I moved 1 to my plant cutting tank with "feeder" ghost shrimp and thai micro...

Gold white clouds have a yellow body, white tips on their fins, red dorsal & ventral fins, blue eyes, reddish lips, and often black spots. Ruby wcmm, as they appear online, have a gold body with red undertones, a bright red dorsal & caudal fin, blue eyes, bright red lips, and yellow pectoral &...

Hi friends! A few months ago I discovered "Ruby Cloud Minnows" on petco.com. They're the same species as gold & white cloud mountain minnows; Tanichthys albonubes! Anyone buy them yet? I've never been a huge fan of WCMM but bright red, gold, and blue ones!? Wow!

I'm sorry you haven't gotten a reply. How is the fish now? Have you seen the fantail attack the black moor? Sometimes they unintentionally do and can cause injury. Recently, I had a baby pearlscale with torn slime coating because the other larger goldies were curious of her and poked at her...

The large, whitish line in the middle of each "blade" is indicative of Cryptocoryne parva, as Mudminnow mentioned. However, it's entirely possible that it IS micro sword. I've never kept it, but I've had C. parva One thing that would help immensely is knowing its growth rate. Crypts, but...

Yes I know! But I've had aggressive platies before. Thought maybe my reply would help even if mine were males ;)

Oh yeah, it's definitely possible. I usually do this as well, when I can help it. Currently, my most successful tank is a 3 gallon walstad with several species of aquatic/riparium plants, LOTS of ramshorn snails, hopefully still 3 thai micro crabs, and 3 red dwarf coral platies. I haven't done...

I've always had male platies fight with other males (even within my 3 red coral dwarf platies, the 1 big guy bullies the others, but 1 especially gets bullied the most. Not sure why.) In my opinion, platies aren't really "peaceful." Every time I've kept them I had one who'd bully, or even kill...

Makes sense. Many folks know that I've been rescuing and keeping bettas for over 11 years. I've seen almost every personality, all manor of deformity, hundreds of colors, patterns, tail types and more. The fact that some long-finned bettas, including females, bite their own tails off, "fin...

Really!? How fascinating! Is this the same with long finned, spoonhead, doubletail, or other deformities in bettas, blood parrot cichlids, fancy goldfish, and flowerhorns, for example?

Oh sorry, I should've noted that I didn't buy this fish. I was just asking if blue balloon rams are known to be aggressive :) Can rams be pregnant or would they be gravid?

Yesterday I visited petsmart about 45 mins away from my home and I found stunning, vibrant blue balloon ram cichlids (2 bright males, 2-3 females and 5-6+ young males?) I've never heard of rams, specifically blue rams, being aggressive, but 1 of the colorful dudes extended his dorsal rays to be...

Hygrophila polysperma 'Sunset' I presume?