How's that 20 gal going? Did you do anything else with it?
And did you ever try the gin soaked raisins?

I haven't done anything with it yet, except set it up. It's ready to go, if it wouldn't be so darn hot in my room. I totally forgot about the raisins. I was going to try it... :D

This first picture is a male.
He has a gonopod that he uses to poke at the females when breeding:p
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The second two pictures are females.
They have a triangular anal fin.
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You can tell all live bearers apart this way (guppies, platies, mollies, sword tails, etc.)

Thank you very much. That made it so easy. And I think you are very right. The dalmatian has the male marking and both of the black mollies have the female marking.

You're welcome :D

New fishy what do you think?

Very pretty!
I would say female also.
I use to lower the water level to try and keep them on their side of the divider.

I went to walmart and bought a couple of dowels and some mesh like material in fabrics. No clue what it is. Then I tried to make a divider like I bought, but the dowels actually fit in from the top of the tank to the bottom, instead of only about three quarters of the way. And I lowered the water about an inch. Hopefully that does it. The divider just didn't want to stay. You should see them trying to fight between the fabric. It almost looks like the new one is taunting the cow. LOL

Do you think he might actually kill her if I can't find any more females? I know the ratio is something like 1M to 5F or something like that. I know you don't know for sure, but just in your experience of keeping fish?

They had some type of dolphin fish at the LFS, and it was playing with my uncle. He was moving his finger along the glass and it was following his finger. It was about 8 inches long, it actually looked like a dolphin. The info on it said it got up to four feet. Holy shmatza! I'd like to see that!!

As hard as I tried, I only have 2 Africans left and they are separated.
One male and one female, the male is so vicious toward her, he had her floating on her side one day and I thought I was going to lose her.
So yes, I'd definitely say that if they are fighting through the divider, they will fight w/o it and the strongest will win.

The dolphin fish sounds cool. LOL wonder who keeps a tank large enough to house it.

They aren't going at it today like they were yesterday. He's still getting excited, but not as much. Maybe there's hope they will live in peace. (LOL) When I came down this morning, she was in his side of the tank and he was chasing her a little. She still could jump the top. Apparently she's a pretty good jumper. So I lowered the water more. She hasn't gotten over it since then.

I think I found another female. There are a few egg spots on her, but she doesn't have the blue sheen to her. The other one has been chasing her, but not a "I'm going to kill you chase." At least not yet. It's more like a "I'm annoyed you are in my space" chase.

I read somewhere that when you have zebra's you should get some Australian Rainbow Fish. It said that the colors distract the male, and they are fast enough to get away from them. Maybe if you try to keep this type of fish again, you could try it. If I can find some, I am going to try it and I'll let you know what happens.

I love the markings on that one, very pretty.

The rainbow fishies are so sweet and peaceful I don't understand why anyone would suggest to put them with Zebras...
They would spend their life being chased and killed for sure.

I have no clue. I don't even remember where I read it. I never heard of rainbow fish before that, so I know it wasn't my imagination. But then again... LOL

If you emailed me back after I answered your email, I didn't get it, because I deleted all of my emails without checking them. :o Thought you should know, just in case.:rolleyes:

I thought about calling this one Dot. She has a lot of dots. LOL

The girls are having trouble eating the pellets. I noticed they keep sucking one in and spitting it out over and over (same pellet.) The first one hasn't eaten since Friday, so I gave them some flakes to make me feel better. Should I wait longer and keep giving them the pellets, or is there something else I could get for them? Maybe the spirulina flakes?

I think I did email you back.
Can't remember what I wrote in there though LOL.

I would feed them what ever they could eat.
Try anything. I gave mine some thawed peas tonight cause I had some left over from the goldfish and they went crazy over them LOL!

You could also try crushing the pellets.
When I had small ones that couldn't chew the hard pellets, I'd crush them by putting some pellets in a teaspoon and taking the bottom of another teaspoon and crushed them - does that make sense lol.

I love the name Dot!

Makes perfect sense. I'll try that then. Thanks

I went back to the store today... again. I think I found another female. They are all the same size. I'll take a pic later (when things calm down a bit, LOL) and post it.

They had some babies in the tank, only about a half an inch each, so I bought some of them. They only wanted a buck each. I didn't think that was too bad But they had about five or six different species in the tank, so they could be anything. Probably mutts. LOL There were two frontosa's. I'm hoping that's what they are, but I know that's doubtful. There was a blue fish hovering around them, but the lady at the store said she thought they looked like little bumblebee's. Oh, well, we'll see

That's really interesting :-)
I can't wait to see the pics!

Finally got a pic, and it wasn't too easy. I want to try to put the tank seperater that I made back in and make a small side for the babies to run in. They don't sell bigger nets around here that I could find. I'm afraid, though, that they might still get by it, and you know what that means. FISH FOOD!! :eek: LOL :D

And I wanted to ask you something else. The male keeps flying at the one, then he turns around and shakes his butt in her face. It looks like he's trying to take his tail and smack her around. Do you think that is their "mating dance," or do you think he's trying to smack her around?

The fishys are cute as can be.
Sounds like a mating dance to me.
Babies may be in your near future!:eek:

OH NO!! MORE BABIES!! :eek: LOL:D The male keeps spitting stones at the females. My dad thinks it's funny. He's sitting here cracking up.

I took the babies I bought out of the net and into the tank. One of them got out of their side, so I covered the bottom in stones. That seems to be doing the job. Though I haven't seen one of them since last night, and the one that got out I caught this morning and put back. I'm only counting five.

Oh goodness, those little buggers are great at escaping.

Sounds like the male is making a nice "home" for the female and all the babies he plans to have!! LOL

I believe that!! :eek: