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hey mate
awsome article. ok im from australia and at my LFS theres this one fish that i just cant walk into the store and not look at it, its called a endler's livebearer( i have heard there kinda rare in the UK and in the US of A)
but anyways i cant seem to find the number of fry they have and how often them have them on the net so if know can you plz reply coz if its something huge i might just go with a all male tank coz i heard these are very peaceful in a male tank thanks but awsome article

Ah, Endlers. They are a very pretty and addicting little fish! I wouldn't say they are rare anymore, but definitely not as common as say...Guppies.

Endlers tend to have a smaller number of fry then most fish. I'd say around 10-20 is the norm, but of course it could vary by female. Their gestation period is the same as Guppies, about a month.

Yes, these are one of the best fish for an all male tank. The other common Livebearers tend to have aggression issues, but these fish don't commonly show aggression.

Take a look at our Endler Profile for more information.

Good luck!

[font=Tahoma] Great info. Have one question. After the fry grow, I have a lyre tail molly, the babies seem to be bugging the crud out of her. I have put them in a seperate tank. Would you know why they are pestering her so much?

Thanks,
ice_queen

i bought my mollies at the LFS and the female had babies in the fish bag ! is this weird or does it happen regulary?

it happened to me when i bought my *wild guppies* (not the boring kind or the "fancy guppies", they're the ones with numerous colors) i was VERY suprised.

Ok, so here's my situation. My molly is giving birth as we speak. She's in a 10 gal tank with 3 silver tipped tetras, a mystery snail, a chinese algae eater, and a male molly. There is adaquate hiding for the fry, but i dont know what i should do about the other fish. will there be overcrowding? I've only been fishkeeping for 3 months. PLEASE HELP!!!

Does this mean that I cannot add a male and two female guppies to a community tank which contains badis badis? - these fish will only take live food.

Glolite,
I have been breeding fish for may years in the Uk, but have never heard of thet law. Any chance you could quote the exact place I could find details of this? I don't doubt your word, I was just wondering if it was a "techinaly illeagal" thing, where it is unlikely that anyone would be charged, or whether it is a definate offence. I am slightly worried by you post, as I have, in the past, advised people to cull deformed fry in this way. I presume that this law extends to all species??
Thanks for your input
rabbut

Hey, my gf has just brought 4 mollies and surprise surpirse 2 have given birth... two breeding traps full of fry (good thing the traps are a decent size). Now even though the traps are big, as we all know the fry are quickly going to out grow them. So I was wondering, what age can these little guys be transferred to a new tank with a completely different set up. The toxin levels are all 0ppm, but their current tank as a ph of 8, where as my tank as a ph of 7 (the tank I want to tranferr them to).

I won't be able to stock many as my tank as about roughly 25-30cm of fish space left to stock.

(see my post on "Sad Betta" to see a list of my current tank stock)

I recently had guppy fry... 4 days ago. I have 2 females and I want male, because of its colors and all... but I want to keep at least 2 of my babies, what should I keep, 2 females or 2 males? Cause I think at the end I will alwys have pregnant females either way...

Annastasia-This is one of the most informative posts I've ever read-it immediately needs to be pinned!!!!

I have a question but:

I'm about to stock my first tank (yes, don't worry I'm fishless cycling exactly like it says) and it's almost ready will this work?

Mollies, Guppies, Platies and possibly some Endler's, Swordtails or Plecos.

Reccomend any other fish?
Which fish should I get?
How many of each?

Thank you,

(My tank is 35 Gallon) (132 Litres)

keep 1 of ea, thats only my opnion but that what i would do.

Dan

theres a reasonably sized tank TBH, if i was you id get maybe a pair of rams, gold maybe, or a pair of dwarf gourami, then maybe up to 10 of any of above, so maybe 3 female platy's, 1 male,2 swordtails and 4 guppy's, then maybe get a smallish plec, try a L260'

Dan

Yes it can due to the female being in a stressed situation.





I would have both being females. Reasoning why is because the males can be aggressive towards each other if there are not enough females around. You usually want 1 male to every 3 females in the tank.