What do you get when you cross a Guppy with a Molly? No, that’s not a joke. A lot of people aren’t aware that different livebearers can interbreed. They fall into two groups. Mollies, Guppies, and Endlers can breed to produce offspring. Platies and Swordtails can breed to produce offspring as well. I pulled the bonehead move of leaving on male Guppy in my community tank with my female Mollies. Even though I knew that cross breeding was possible, I thought they male Guppy was way to small to mate. Well, this is what I have now.

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I’m finally settled into the new home. The plants took a beating in the move, but they’re slowly coming back up. I never put the Moai statues back into the tank. I wanted to go with a more natural look, so I added some more natural scape pieces.

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Posting hasn’t been on my mind lately. Escrow closed on the new home about a month ago, but I’m still not in the new home yet. I knew it would take some time, even just to move the fish tanks, even though the new home is only fifteen minutes away.

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Sorry for the break in posting. I may be moving in the next month. That’s good news, but I’m definitely not looking forward to moving my tanks. The move isn’t far, but breaking everything down is a pain.

Well, it’s been just about two weeks since I got my Olive Nerite Snails. I wanted to see if these little guys could live up to their fabled algae eating skills. I let my 20 gallon tank get some algae built up before the guys arrived. I put a single snail into the 20 gallon tank. Check out the before and after shots.

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We have all seen tanks overrun with algae and have probably all dealt with it ourselves. How do you get rid of the blasted stuff? Let’s start by getting one thing straight. You can’t get rid of algae. The fact of the matter is, algae is always present. Whether it is present in quantities that are noticeable is a completely different story.

Algae can look very good in a tank and give it a more natural look. I have some stones in my tank that have grown a fair amount of algae on them. I think the stones look much better with this growth. It adds more color to the tank than would exist in an algae free environment.

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This is the story about how I got into fish keeping. This was no more than a year and a half ago.

You can see two goldfish in a tiny container. In the background you can see the bright red colors of a carnival booth with different colored bowls of water. You all know the game. The object is to toss ping pong balls into these bowls to win goldfish as a prize. Well I won two little goldfish that I knew nothing about. I left them with my girlfriend, who knew just as little about fish as I did.

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I’ve added a section to write about some of the fish I’ve kept or encountered while engrossed in this hobby. The link to the index is permanently up on the top of the site, but you can click here if you don’t want to move your cursor way up there. I  hope to write some less technical things about the fish as those have been written by other people on other websites already. I prefer to write about my general opinions and experiences with the fish. Hopefully those stumbling across can give their own input whether it’s in agreement or contradictory.

I have a spare 10 gallon tank that is just sitting in the garage. It seems like such a waste. I’m currently deciding what to do with it. Here are some of my options.

Nerite Snail Breeding. These little critters are prized among aquarium keepers as algae eating machines. They are highly adaptable, able to live in salt water, brackish water, and fresh water. Their eggs, however, are only viable in brackish or salt water. I would get some snails, acclimate them back to brackish and try to breed them. Then I would have to get a second tank for acclimating them back to fresh water for sharing with others.

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I took a few video clips on my camera and spliced them together so you can see some of my tank occupants. A lot of the clips are during feeding time, which is why the fish are so overly excited.