Baby guppies..

[Dakota Ice]

Hello all,
I have had past experiences of never being able to raise a baby guppy to full size in a tank with any other fish in it. Well, I was just wondering if two guppy babies will be able to grow to full size in a planted 20 gallon, without ever having to be upgraded to another, larger tank, with just a inch long female betta and CAE as tankmates (the CAE is small right now).. Anyone willing to give their opinion?

Thanks,
Dakota

 

[lee_an]

Hello all,
I have had past experiences of never being able to raise a baby guppy to full size in a tank with any other fish in it. Well, I was just wondering if two guppy babies will be able to grow to full size in a planted 20 gallon, without ever having to be upgraded to another, larger tank, with just a inch long female betta and CAE as tankmates (the CAE is small right now).. Anyone willing to give their opinion?

Thanks,
Dakota

You cant unless you have an aquarium of dumb fishes who cannot catch guppy fry of your guppy fry is the luckiest or fastest.put it in a new tank and raise it seperately

 

[jams.alaskan]

Your betta would eat them if she could but in a planted tank it is possible that they will have enough cover to stay alive till they are large enough. I'd give it a try anyhow...

ALASKA

 

[Tanks4myfish]

I'm raising my babies in the same tank as the adult guppies and my 3 first-borns are about half inch now. I've had them in a 3 gallon tank with only feeder guppies for about 4 months and I get lots of fry. If you have enough hiding places for the little ones, they won't get eaten. So far so good.

 

[Dakota Ice]

The female betta has no interest in them.. these babies arent newborns either. They swim out in the open with her.

But no one really answered.. will I be able to grow them to full size in this tank without ever having to upgrade?

 

[GuppyDude]

my female just had her batch and within an hour after she herself gobbled them all up i have a very well planted 10g, in a 20g with those fish u shouldn't have many problems, but the bettas has to go, she will eat ever last one. baby fish are a bettas natural diet

 

[NinjaSmurf]

To actually answer your question, in a twenty gallon I see no reason why they shouldn't get full grown, except I have no idea what the CAE is I mean, if they can get to full grown in a five gallon or something like that, they'll do great in the twenty. The betta should be fine with them, unless you want the guppies to have fry later on that will live, but you said about the plants...

Overall, no upgrade needed.