Want to know a little brackish secret.

[MombasaLionfish]

Hey everyone I’m going to add a pair of dumbo ear guppies for my reef. Hope they survive the acclimation, they will look so cool in my tank .

Good luck.

 

[The guppy guru]

Hi there thanks and they seem to be doing fine but until there in my reef I won’t call it a success.

 

[The guppy guru]

Hey everyone if you have any questions just type them down below.

 

[The guppy guru]

My goodness I have killed most of my live stock off. I added a new wood air diffuser for my protein skimmer, and apparently my family washed it for me with soap! And I only found out now that they told me. I lost my coral beauty anglefish, my half 2nd stripe clown fish, all of my emerald cobra guppies, and my six line wrasse. Only 2 fish survived, my flame guppy, and my bicolor Blenny. Coral wise, they all died. No survivors. Although my anemone is bleaching it’s still alive. Hail the lords. My coral banded shrimp and my anemone crab are still alive. This is very bad and I don’t think I will be able to recover. Since we aren’t allowed to go out to much, I ain’t going to be able to recover efficiently enough. I then also had to put 6 dumbo guppy acclimations on hold! This is devastating, and I am now having to deal with this under regulations and restrictions. #F in the chat

 

[MombasaLionfish]

How many mollies would you recommend to help with algae in a 60 gallon tank?

 

[The guppy guru]

How many mollies would you recommend to help with algae in a 60 gallon tank?

In a 60 gallon tank i recommend at least 5 mollies. This will be a good number to combat the algae, you can have 1 or 2 more than my recommendation but your tank would have to be understocked for more than my recommendation. If you have the money for purchasing these online you should buy mollies of the genus poecilia latipinna, and porcilia sphenops.

 

[The guppy guru]

Poecilia sphenops.

 

[MombasaLionfish]

In a 60 gallon tank i recommend at least 5 mollies. This will be a good number to combat the algae, you can have 1 or 2 more than my recommendation but your tank would have to be understocked for more than my recommendation. If you have the money for purchasing these online you should buy mollies of the genus poecilia latipinna, and porcilia sphenops.

Thanks.

 

[The guppy guru]

Unfortunately my freshwater tank has also hit a block. Apparently a roach with poison on him, jumped into my freshwater aquarium and well............. yeah let’s just say I have no more freshwater tank. It’s sad because I had a lot of fish that had a place in my heart. All my freshwater fish .... gone! My school of 16 neon tetras, my amazon discus, my school of 10 black neon tetras, my community of 6 mollies, my loaches, my 4 female bettas, and my prized golden anglefish.

 

[The guppy guru]

Gif you have any questions or thoughts type them down below.

 

[The guppy guru]

Hey all hope you all stay safe surfing this time happy reefing.

 

[The guppy guru]

During this time is when we should show each other our wonderful tanks so here’s mine. Before the great wipeout.

 

[BZOFIQ]

But why?

 

[The guppy guru]

But why?

Well because really I just want people to show off their success so that beginners can see that this is possible, also I just really like seeing cool reefs.

 

[Copingwithpods]

Sorry to hear about your tank troubles that sucks

 

[The guppy guru]

Sorry to hear about your tank troubles that sucks

It really does and normally I would recover from a hard hit like this. Worst part is that I had some dumbo ear guppies at 1.018 salinity specific gravity getting ready to join my tank. And I had ordered some zoanthids that will be here on Thursday and well I’m battling against time right now.

 

[AC1211]

It really does and normally I would recover from a hard hit like this. Worst part is that I had some dumbo ear guppies at 1.018 salinity specific gravity getting ready to join my tank. And I had ordered some zoanthids that will be here on Thursday and well I’m battling against time right now.

Right now I am undergoing operation reefsaver. My tank has aiptasia, hair algae, turf algae, and my yellow tang got into a scrap with my kole tang and now has ich (it was the weakest fish and unlike the others never fully adapted but its been 100 days.) About to dose vibrant so here we go.

 

[The guppy guru]

Right now I am undergoing operation reefsaver. My tank has aiptasia, hair algae, turf algae, and my yellow tang got into a scrap with my kole tang and now has ich (it was the weakest fish and unlike the others never fully adapted but its been 100 days.) About to dose vibrant so here we go.

Hope you can turn these failures into successes. Have a wonderful day and if everything gets better please update us cause I really want everyone to succeed.

 

[BZOFIQ]

But why?

Well because really I just want people to show off their success so that beginners can see that this is possible, also I just really like seeing cool reefs.

No, why acclimate freshwater fish to saltwater. I'm not sure what the point is. I don't find it cool to keep guppies in a reef.

To me that's an equivalent to sticking a rubber scuba steve in a reef tank.

Those too can be acclimated.

 

[The guppy guru]

No, why acclimate freshwater fish to saltwater. I'm not sure what the point is. I don't find it cool to keep guppies in a reef.

To me that's an equivalent to sticking a rubber scuba steve in a reef tank.

Those too can be acclimated.

I acclimate guppies because some colors can outcompete saltwater fish and they are really neat. In my opinion I made this thread to see if anyone was interested in doing this as well or to answer brackish water related questions. I didn’t make this to have to explain the benefits to people who don’t care so if your going to be mean the don’t stick around.