So I have 2 male and 3 female guppies in a community aquarium with 1 dwarf gourami and 2 platies. Will they eventually breed, and if I just let the fry be in the tank, will every single one be eaten? I have a 2.5 also where I will put some fry, but how do I know when my guppy will give birth? I will put the preg. guppy in the 2.5 to give birth, and then put it back in the 20 gallon. Will fry eventually be born?
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ya, they should breed. the fry would be v. collourful as all the three males will mate with her, it's unlike others where they only have one. the thing is, your tank is very big.
THe fries will die. Not only eaten up,but this: the fishes will be very very tired after it got out. My experiece, this is don't know the how many patch , tells me that they perfer shallow areas. the fries i mean. you will see them on the ground, v. tired and after the third day more than half will be gone. And in such a big tank for your five guppies, the male may take little notive of the females. you have to put a divider. actually. do not put tooo many plants ans so on.
when the female has a grey belly and it's big, it is about to give birth. the males willl swim around her. you know something, i once bough a pack of guppies and one of the female gave birth before i even manage to separate the ugly ones with the nice ones. you will see the mother's backside opening and a grey or transparent thing oming out, then the grey thing will stryggle to get out and then, it's out! then it will swim very fast but suddenly drop dead. it's just very tired. my guppies have an averade of 20 fries every time and usaully. 15 or so will survive. well it also depends on the size of your female. i huage one can give birth o 25and so on. put the ugly ones away form your female, they make ugly fries. try to put one male and one female (when the female is pregnant) together in a small container. in max 25-30 days, you will see fries. i suggest you breed fighting fish instead of guppies. my fighting fish can give birth to 100 fries every time. and they are quite strong. once my guppy gave birth to still babies. so sad. but the fries grow quite slowly. like mine, who has been there for a month now(7 of them) , there is't any colour on them. maybe they are suppose to have this awful colour. once they are put, SEPARATE THE MOTHER FROM THE FRIES%26lt; SHE"S A EATING MACHINE
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yes, the guppies will breed. and if you don't keep them seperated the gourami will eat every one of them.
yes, I had luck keepint the other fish from eating the fry by having a signifcant # of live plants for them to hide in. Those tall, lacy ones--cheap %26 common--yes, the fish will feed on the plants %26 yes they "shed" so keep a small fish-net handy to scoop out the debris often. Also, sea shells %26 porous rocks where they can hide helps. I never moved my fish to another tank, they birthed twice before a catastrophy in my community tank wiped 'em out.
since you have a small tank, I'd separtate the mother when her belly gets noticably swollen--put the plants, etc in her tank too.
if you keep the fry in that tank yes they will be eaten.. by the parents and that gaurami,i wouldnt have a gaurami in there . the guppies will breed and then you wont know what to do with them.you will have guppies everywhere. you will know when the female is preganant, she will get so big when you look at her head on she looks like she will explode, when she looks this way put her in a breeding tank you can get these at petsmart any fish store.itis a floating clear box that you place the female in there when she is ready to have her fry they will drop to the bottom through the slots . you can leave her in that until she is done having them about 2-3 hours then take her out and put her in the other community tank
they have fry every 3-4 weeks so if you dont want that many separate them the males from the females,the females will have a gravid spot its a black spot on their belly toward the back and is very noticable,the males have a long thing under them you be able to see that.males are very brightly colored also and females are not.
I used to have guppies and got rid of them(gave them away..not flushed!) cuz they were breedind like rats! At least once a month I used to come back from work and find about 3 douzains of new ones! I had neon tetras, a beta , a pleco and a flying fox with them and never seperated them and I wish they ate them but they never did! If they are not breeding yet.don't worry they should soon.be carefull for what you wish for!
even if u put only a male an a female in a small bowl, they will breed! i think that guppies are the most productive fish that ive ever met! i kept my guppies in a small bowl and they made around 30 babies in a month.but since i dont separated the babies from their parents it seems that their number decreased very quick.i think that its better to put the pregnant mother (u can recognise her by her swollen belly.its quite obvious) separated before she gave birth and when the babies are born take the mother away from them.they can survive on their own with help from u (feed them).if they live together, the parents will surely ate them n sometimes they even finished it all but im not sure about the other fishes.
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