Ok so I am planning on breeding one of the two and I need yalls advice. I have about 4 10 gal tanks and a 20gal tank and a 5 if needed. I want to breed guppies but I can only get them from the pet store. I was wondering if I bred the petstore guppies would they weaken as I breed them? I am not looking for a specific color nor will I be breeding siblings if at all possible. I am planning on running the 20gal for probably females and 2 10s for the males and 1 10 for breeding and 1 10 for fry or 2 10 for breeding and the 5 for fry which doesn't leave alot of fry space tho! I am mainly just curious about the petstore guppie question above. Thanks! If anyone thinks I could breed swordies with that set up also and think it would be a good idea let me know cause I like swordies too!
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You can breed either one with that set up. But they are just one problem. They multiply fast and you will run out of room fast. Just one time is all you are going to have room for. Guppies have around 60 fry each time. I have never had any swordies so I am not sure how many they have. What do you plan on doing with the fry?
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My experience with swordies is they won't breed unless the tank they are in is big enough....they are fussy little fish. My lyretail girl didn't breed with any male I tried until I moved her into the 30gal now she sexually harrasses the males all the time 
As for guppies they will breed in a drip of water at the bottom of the sink....nothing will stop them. I have seen a male guppy try and impregnate a female in the bag on the way home from the LFS
As for guppies they will breed in a drip of water at the bottom of the sink....nothing will stop them. I have seen a male guppy try and impregnate a female in the bag on the way home from the LFS
Ddraig Goch
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You have plenty of tank space to breed either, but you seem to be thinking too large scale. You won't need as many 'parent' fish as you think.
I'll assume we're talking about guppies, if you want to keep the males and females separate then a 10 gal each should be fine, you won't need more than 5 or 6 of each, from these you could get between 100 and 400 fry per month depending on the size of the mother and the number in each batch.
If you use another 10 gal for breeding your chosen fish (make sure you put in 2 or 3 females in for each male), you could then use the other 10 gal (and possibly your 5 gal) for young fry then grow them on in your 20 gal (with a divider if you're keeping males and females separate).
Breeding pet store guppies should be fine, try to get different colours to avoid obvious brother/sister crosses.
Good luck.
I'll assume we're talking about guppies, if you want to keep the males and females separate then a 10 gal each should be fine, you won't need more than 5 or 6 of each, from these you could get between 100 and 400 fry per month depending on the size of the mother and the number in each batch.
If you use another 10 gal for breeding your chosen fish (make sure you put in 2 or 3 females in for each male), you could then use the other 10 gal (and possibly your 5 gal) for young fry then grow them on in your 20 gal (with a divider if you're keeping males and females separate).
Breeding pet store guppies should be fine, try to get different colours to avoid obvious brother/sister crosses.
Good luck.
Ddraig Goch said:Breeding pet store guppies should be fine, try to get different colours to avoid obvious brother/sister crosses.
Good luck.
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Yes, they will be okay...but it wouldn't be the best. If you wanted to work on getting hardier Guppies, you could consider breeding Fancies with Feeders. Just quarantine the feeders for at least 3 weeks first though, because they can have diseases from being crammed together.
Just a thought.
Wow I did not know that mixxing fancys with feeders was a good idea. Well I might get a trio of swordies or something when I clear the few guppies Igot out of my 55gal. I have lots of guppies I just can't tell which parent they came from because it seems like they all popped out at around the same time. Aside from that I have a red tuxedo male I bought that I know is no relation to the others and (looks) healthy and has been doing good and I think he might of gotten to a few of the females before the baby guppy males were big enough. All the guppy females are pregnant which could be a good or bad thing. I am thinking about leaving the females in a tank and let them finish poppin babies for a few months and then in another tank add the female I want.
I am also trying to decide what sword trio to get as I can probably only have one.
I am also trying to decide what sword trio to get as I can probably only have one.
If you are going to put a Swordy trio in with your Guppies, I wouldn't expect many fry from them. My Swordies are big fry munchers! 
And yes, mixing Fancies and Feeders is good...because Fancies are so inbred, they basically have no hardiness or immunity left, and since Feeders aren't very inbred (Who needs pretty Guppies to feed to your fish?) they will toughen up the Fancy Strain. Just don't expect them to come out so Fancy, they will most likely be plainer, usually centering on one color. And not so much patterning. I think some of mine have come out very pretty though.
And yes, mixing Fancies and Feeders is good...because Fancies are so inbred, they basically have no hardiness or immunity left, and since Feeders aren't very inbred (Who needs pretty Guppies to feed to your fish?) they will toughen up the Fancy Strain.
Just don't expect them to come out so Fancy, they will most likely be plainer, usually centering on one color. And not so much patterning. I think some of mine have come out very pretty though. I don't feed them to any fish anyways. I wasn't gonna have guppies in the 55gal but I don't see how they would eat any of the fry cause the two swordie females I have are old and look weak. Anyways none of the females have dropped tho because they are still pretty fat. I am hoping to snatch maybe 10 and then go to the petstore and get a few plain guppies.
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