She’s turning 8 in a couple months. She’s very invested in my fish keeping, she even made up a game called fish-school where I am the teacher and I have to teach her everything about the fish I keep, their food, their natural diet, care, etc. Then we did this project, she made her dream tank, it was 15 corycats and 50
glow fish in a 150 gallon. I’m sure that will change.
The first fish I kept was like 6 mollies in a 20 tall. I didn’t know much about cycling, I dropped the dosing of
quick start, waited for algae to grow, then added fish. They honestly lasted a while especially being on low quality food (Aqueon flakes). I added like 3 platies and a swordtail a couple weeks later, and a Molly died. A couple weeks later I added 3
cories who all died. A week or so after that most of my fish except for one swordtail died. It was that one swordtail for a while. I didn’t know what was wrong, I had no
test kits. Looking back I’m sure it was
Ammonia poisoning. The story was kept in that condition along with low quality food for a while, I still have him but the poor little guy is stunted. He’s still happy as ever, swimming around being goofy and trying to mate with his female swordtail friends. Also, don’t worry, I have the hang of it now. I have 4 female platies, 3 swordtails, and I am growing out 6 fry right now! I’m planning to keep 2-3 of them (females only) The father of both of these fry batches I believe is a dead fish. He sadly passed after my cat knocked down a bottle which knocked my
heaters plug, it got too cold and then warmed up, he got stressed and caught a disease, passed away a couple days later. Tragic but he brought at least 6 lives into the world! I’m sure others were born, I found 1 fry days after it was born (different batch), 4 the day they were born, and 1 the day after it was born (same batch as the 4)