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Nathan Greer <gte381f@prism.gatech.edu> verily spake, saying:
: Kevin Diggelmann <gte069q@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
:> i've got a fish. he(i assume)  swims happily (again i assume) above my desk.

: i have 7 swimming in a 2 gallon tank. 

Gads!  That's not healthy *at all* for those fish, unless you have a huge
sump or change 50% of the water every 6 hours, or they are tiny, tiny fish.

Typically, unless you do some rather drastic filtration you should have no
more than one inch of fish per gallon of tank liquid (counting from nose
to base of the tail).

For cold water fishies, such as goldfish, it's less.

As to breeding fish, some fish are easy to breed (livebearers, such as guppies
or swords or mollies or platies) and some aren't so easy.  Typically you have
to have a really nice environment for the harder-to-breed fish, feed them 
certain things, and you might have to change some of the ``normal'' parameters
of the tank.  For instance, they suggest that if you want to breed cory cats
that you feed them a bunch of blood worms, then drop the temp in the tank
down to 65 or so degrees F for the night.

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