Fish Lovers 2.0

[Wild.One]

Yes, three gallons is large enough. With three of them, you could keep them in there forever if you'd like. It might be Neon Terra disease. Luckily from what I've heard it only affects tetras and not livebearers, angelfish etc.

Alright thank you!

[Lonin]

Yes, three gallons is large enough. With three of them, you could keep them in there forever if you'd like. It might be Neon Terra disease. Luckily from what I've heard it only affects tetras and not livebearers, angelfish etc.

3 gallons is nowhere near big enough for tetras. They should have an absolute minimum of 10-15 gallons, ideally at least 20. They're very active little fish and need loads of room as well as a large school of at least 6.

But it's fine temporarily as a quarantine tank while you figure out what's going on c: Have you tested the water? Any other symptoms or just a bent tail?

[Blood Storm]

I walk outside to empty out a 10 gallon fish tank that had 75 baby mollies in it, but the shade they had fell down and cooked them. I was procrastinating about taking the tank down but decided to do it today, so I look into the algae infested tank and what do I see? two one inch long fat babies mollies feasting away at the algae(their natural food in the wild)


looks like it is staying up until further notice(I plan to get some adult mollies again to breed, just not older fish)

no filters, no water flow, no nothing, just two baby fish, and algae galore...and they seem happy and content on feasting. Maybe in a few days I will go out to a roadside ditch or something and net a few more mollies to keep them company.

[ｂｒｏｋｅｎｑｕａｒｔｚ]

I have two fish; One Long-Finned Goldskirt and one male Lyre-tail Guppy. I use to also have a Lyre-Tail Molly and two Neons, bu they recently died. A few days after, I noticed something wrong with my Goldskirt; Her fins had started disappearing. At first I thought she had fin rot. Since I was unsure, I watched my fish for a while, and realized the problem; My guppy was biting the Goldskirt's fins off... He won't stop and I'm not sure why he is in the first place. Does anyone know if there's a way to stop this? Her fins are literally half eaten.

[Wild.One]

Yes, three gallons is large enough. With three of them, you could keep them in there forever if you'd like. It might be Neon Terra disease. Luckily from what I've heard it only affects tetras and not livebearers, angelfish etc.

3 gallons is nowhere near big enough for tetras. They should have an absolute minimum of 10-15 gallons, ideally at least 20. They're very active little fish and need loads of room as well as a large school of at least 6.

But it's fine temporarily as a quarantine tank while you figure out what's going on c: Have you tested the water? Any other symptoms or just a bent tail?

Well his body shape is kinda strange, he's much thinner than my other tetras.
I'll see if I can take a picture of it though I'm on my iPod so the quality won't be too great.

[Dappled Sapphire]

I have two fish; One Long-Finned Goldskirt and one male Lyre-tail Guppy. I use to also have a Lyre-Tail Molly and two Neons, bu they recently died. A few days after, I noticed something wrong with my Goldskirt; Her fins had started disappearing. At first I thought she had fin rot. Since I was unsure, I watched my fish for a while, and realized the problem; My guppy was biting the Goldskirt's fins off... He won't stop and I'm not sure why he is in the first place. Does anyone know if there's a way to stop this? Her fins are literally half eaten.

How big is your tank?
If you have the room I would add afew more fish
Maybe two female guppys will keep him occupied instead if harassing the skirt tetra (which should aso have some friends since they are schooling fish)

[Odeen]

Yeah, both guppies and skirted tetras are social species and prefer to have friends. Just having one of each is bound to be putting both on edge, which tends to make tetras very shy and livebearers like guppies very nippy. If your tank is large enough to accommodate a couple more of each, that would be ideal, but if it isn't I would possibly suggest surrendering one or both until you can afford an appropriately sized habitat for their schooling needs.

[andy;]

I have news! My betta is growing at a really fast rate! She's still blue and silver, but she had small spots of red on her fins! I'm still nervous about her stress stripes, though. Is this normal?

[Blood Storm]

I have news! My betta is growing at a really fast rate! She's still blue and silver, but she had small spots of red on her fins! I'm still nervous about her stress stripes, though. Is this normal?

Stripes that are horizontal on a young female bettas are a red flag to males that she is not ready to breed, so nothing to worry about there.

[Blood Storm]

(Sorry, on phone so making up form)

My grandma has a 50 gallon that is extremely overstocked(it started with two angelfish, 12 platies, a pair of swordtails,a small group of sailfin mollies, four normal mollies, and a few schools of tetras,and two plecos, but livebearers took over) but now she has a problem, her fish are now losing chunks of skin. What fish in the tank would attack the others. The marks are the size of an American quarter.

She knows the tank is overstocked but pet stores here wont take the extras, and she wont let me take the extras home to be oscar snacks.