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Basic needs for specific fish, illnesses, best tankmates, breeding, water chemistry, tricks to safely cut corners, and/or “stupid” questions? Maybe I can help! :)
I like to explain why you do things in aquariums (like why to use spring instead of distilled, or what pH numbers mean, ect.) so you understand why and not just taking someone’s word for it. I also like giving answers where you have two choices so you can choose which is best for the time and money you can commit to your fish. I understand how tight money can be and how expensive fish related things get.
I will NEVER leave you with an “I don’t know.” Ever. I hate that. That would waste your time and that's just mean. :)
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Experience I have had tropical fish since 1999. I currently have: a 55gal, ten 10gal, 3 five gallons, three 2gal, and a bunch of jars and bowls. At the time I'm typing this, I have: 14 angels, 13 goldfish, 73 bettas, 12 barbs, 5 catfish, too many guppies, 4 gouramis, 2 plecos, 10 loaches, bunch of swordtails, and probably a few others, lol.
I love to rescue fish. I've had everything from mutant danios, to one eyed goldfish, to my newest adoptee, a 2 year old betta with a MASSIVE tumor problem. He was brought to a pet shop and left there because the lady didn't know what to do with him. He's pretty scary looking. One of the guys at the store there I know let me have him. :D YAY! Elephant Man lives in a gallon bowl with pretty stones in my bathroom.
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I sell: veil, delta, halfmoon, plakat, and crowntail bettas as well as halfblack and blonde tuxedo fancy guppies. Ask me about it sometime.
Expert: Benty Date: 7/14/2008 Subject: Pointy tail on baby mollies
Question Hi Benty. I have two balloon mollies, and two orange mollies. Well I have some babies that have a odd pointed tail (along with a zillion other normal babies). Instead of fanning out like normal fish, they come to a point. Is this a birth defect of some kind? Or is this some kind of molly that I can't find any pictures of. It looks kind of like the tail has been sharpened to a point. Thank you.
Sandra
Answer It sounds to me like a birth defect. I have been looking but there's nothing about a molly with a caudal(tail)fin pointy from what I have or can find. See how they turn out! The variations of fish we have now are all really just birth defects people found desirable. Maybe you have got a new kind of molly. Who knows. Time will tell when it gets bigger. Its tail may fan out later than the others.
Now there was no lyre tail mollies in the tanks with them when you got them, right? No one looked like these fish...
