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SixTwoSix said:
I may need to get rid of the adult female guppy, woke this morning to another litter(?) of about 20 baby guppies - that's the third time she's given birth since the start of May without the presence of other adult males.
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Yeh, that’s very much the modus operandi of livebearers.

You’ll have a bunch of females in the fry as well so it’s a never ending cycle. Few people want female guppies for that reason. Platy’s and Molly’s are the same.

If you had adults in the tank - male or female, they may pick off the fry and ‘manage’ the population. Other mature fish may do the same thing.

There is really not a lot you can do with guppies other than keep make only tanks or have someone you can offload them to regularly like back to the store.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
You’ll have a bunch of females in the fry as well so it’s a never ending cycle. Few people want female guppies for that reason. Platy’s and Molly’s are the same.
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Appears to be about 4 females per 1 male out of the last two lots that were born, will definitely be offering guppies for free soon locally :D

I'd been told they breed rapidly, never really appreciated how rapidly until recently though.
 
Some new coral added today.

Hammer and torch:


First hard coral now we’re managing to keep calcium up:


Gonoporia:


Bubble tip anemone and more fish (off the top of my head: regal tang, cardinal fish, gramma, goby and wrasse of some kind and a few others) in a couple of weeks, probably some more clean up crew and possibly some kind of cool looking macro algae to help soak up some nitrates and phosphates (all within range currently though) :)

Protein skimmer switched on for the first time, so a few bubbles initially.

It’s doing well considering at the moment it’s mostly automated while we’re away.
 
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Since we got the snails under control, we noticed the algae growing quicker so added some shrimps about 3 weeks ago to assist a little - 2 cherry, 1 blue, 1 rainbow and 1 ghost - shockingly hard to spot them - few pics below, never have my camera nearby when I spot the cherry shrimp.

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Shrimp are prolific breeders if you can get a good colony going! That said, they add next to nothing to the bio load individually. I’m not sure what would happen if the blues mix with cherry and breed. I’d expect the natural red will be the dominant colour.

The white shrimp is a different species to the others and typically wants softer water with a PH below 7, the others prefer harder water and want PH of 7 or above. If your water is neutral, it will probably be fine but it may not breed.

You can tell males and females apart by size, females are much bigger and have a fuller body.

No harm in adding a load more, they are just expensive, particularly anything that not a cherry tends to come with a premium price tag. It’s worth looking to see if you can find a local ‘breeder’ to see if you can get some a lot cheaper than a store.
 
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b0rn2sk8 said:
Shrimp are prolific breeders if you can get a good colony going! That said, they add next to nothing to the bio load individually. I’m not sure what would happen if the blues mix with cherry and breed. I’d expect the natural red will be the dominant colour.

The white shrimp is a different species to the others and typically wants softer water with a PH below 7, the others prefer harder water and want PH of 7 or above. If your water is neutral, it will probably be fine but it may not breed.

You can tell males and females apart by size, females are much bigger and have a fuller body.

No harm in adding a load more, they are just expensive, particularly anything that not a cherry tends to come with a premium price tag. It’s worth looking to see if you can find a local ‘breeder’ to see if you can get some a lot cheaper than a store.
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Would love to get shrimps breeding in our tanks, currently we have Amano shrimps which have got rather large but of course these are very difficult to breed.
Our PH is 7.2 typically so any recommendations on what type of shrimp will breed easily in our water please?
 
At that PH, it would be cherry shrimp. There are lots of verities that come in many red, orange, yellow and blue. Typically they be more vivid the colour, the more expensive the shrimp. Regular red/brown cherry’s are the cheapest and easy to get a colony going. All the different colours have been line bred from natural cherry strains so they can be more fragile.

Amano shrimp need brackish water to hatch the eggs (river estuary is the natural breeding grounds). They’ll egg up but it’s very very unlikely to result in anything.
 
I just love watching these fish (and coral).



The new coral seems to be doing well.

I’ve also solved my skimmer problem by leaving it off for an hour after coral feeding.

Almost impossible to photograph, but baby turbo snails I think:
 
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Lots added today (some hiding):


Banggai cardinal
Regal tang
Royal gramma (second time lucky?)
Orange spotted goby
Boxer shrimp
Red bubble tip anemone

Emptied the skimmer for the first time. Thought it was going to smell worse, but smelt of the sea and rock pools :)

I’ve also ordered a lens filter for better pictures/videos.

Fingers crossed for this second Gramma. At least the tank is more established this time and there are lots of copepods for it to eat if nothing else.

The coralline algae is spreading well (good sign) and it looks like the turbo snails have had a lot of babies, at least we hope they are turbo snails.
 
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I miss the cherry shrimp in my tank. Once my ram realised he could fit them in his mouth and the other fish noticed that, they all got eaten. They make quite a difference to the amount of algae.
 
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Just bought a 65l tank last week and put 6 Mollies in it on Saturday. Thought it was a nice starter tank and my 4yr old loved the mollies. Woke up the day after to find 8 babies swimming about too.

They certainly made themselves at home.

We are amateurs with the fish keeping thing so I let lady in shop pick the fish for me. She said "would you like babies?" and I said "I don't mind. Whatever mix you think is good"... Thinking she meant juvenile fish. Turns out I think she just dumped some preggo fish on me and literally meant a bunch of fry lol.
 
All the new fish are still alive after nearly a week of being introduced. Fingers crossed. This Gramma seems much more confident too and is eating well. All the corals are growing like crazy, they must like the coral food. The Goby has made a mess of the sand, but then it’s good to see it out and is fun to watch, I read about a lot hiding most of the time. Had to uncover the Scoly coral that the goby had buried.
 
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