Can Male Guppys Be Kept Alone?

[Crossfire]

Bwah! They eat shrimp?! nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....why are all the beautiful fish i want always going after my shrimpies...first cockatoo cichlids now these
I just researched into this, and it says that they only eat baby shrimps, and my shrimp have never bred, i believe them to either be all female or all unfertile

 

[Baccus]

If you didn't have the shrimp I would reccomend either peacock or empire (or carp) gudgeons (I am thinking of the Aussie ones here so Hypseleotris compressus - Empire/ Carp gudeon, and Trout/ Chequered/ Purple Spotted Gudeons - Mogurnda striata), the Empire gudgeons I have seem very peaceful towards the guppies (but did eat the cherry shrimp), but the males may fight once fully mature and wanting to breed. Also my gudgeons are wild caught (got them myself from a local creek) and they have taken to all manner of prepared food really easily as have the rainbow fish I have that are also wild caught. Gudgeons are an intelligent fish and will happily come to the front of the tank to observe you while you observe them.

 

[thereverendturtle]

Mine eat flake that floats down... I don't keep shrimp, so I can't comment on that.

 

[Crossfire]

poo...there goes another beautiful fish i can't keep

any other recommendations?

 

[Baccus]

The crystal red shrimp can't breed with cherry shrimp, different species and the amano shrimp requires their young to have brackish conditions and aren't easily raised in captivity, that leaves the cherry shrimp, if all of your cherry shrimp are dark red then they are females, if not then they have have been dropping shrimplets but they have been getting eaten by the fish, sucked up by the filter or even accidentially sucked up when preforming water changes (I have to scrutinise every bucket of water I take out of my tanks in case baby shrimp have gone up the syphon but I usually have a fine net over the end to stop them). Believe me Empire gudgeons even not fully grown ones are fully able to eat a full grown cherry shrimp.

Why not another tetra type? Or did you really want a centre piece fish? Not sure if they are available in the USA but Pacific Blue Eyes are a cracker of a fish the males in breeding mode or fantastic .

 

[Crossfire]

The crystal red shrimp can't breed with cherry shrimp, different species and the amano shrimp requires their young to have brackish conditions and aren't easily raised in captivity, that leaves the cherry shrimp, if all of your cherry shrimp are dark red then they are females, if not then they have have been dropping shrimplets but they have been getting eaten by the fish, sucked up by the filter or even accidentially sucked up when preforming water changes (I have to scrutinise every bucket of water I take out of my tanks in case baby shrimp have gone up the syphon but I usually have a fine net over the end to stop them). Believe me Empire gudgeons even not fully grown ones are fully able to eat a full grown cherry shrimp.

Yeah, I know those shrimp cant breed with each other, and Im pretty sure i have all female R cherry shrimp...darn you shrimp and your algae eating skillllllllls! If i had a bigger tank, i probs wouldve gone with a school of otos...

The crystal red shrimp can't breed with cherry shrimp, different species and the amano shrimp requires their young to have brackish conditions and aren't easily raised in captivity, that leaves the cherry shrimp, if all of your cherry shrimp are dark red then they are females, if not then they have have been dropping shrimplets but they have been getting eaten by the fish, sucked up by the filter or even accidentially sucked up when preforming water changes (I have to scrutinise every bucket of water I take out of my tanks in case baby shrimp have gone up the syphon but I usually have a fine net over the end to stop them). Believe me Empire gudgeons even not fully grown ones are fully able to eat a full grown cherry shrimp.

Why not another tetra type? Or did you really want a centre piece fish? Not sure if they are available in the USA but Pacific Blue Eyes are a cracker of a fish the males in breeding mode or fantastic .

No room for another school of tetras or so i've been told on this forum...i wouldnt go with tetras if i did have room, i wouldve gone with praecox rainbows....I lookes at the Blue-eyes, beautiful, but i dont think they're available in the US currently

 

[thereverendturtle]

Tateurndina ocellicauda is the species I'm speaking of. Here's a good link....
http/www.seriouslyfish.com/profile.php?genus=Tateurndina&species=ocellicauda&id=786

 

[Crossfire]

Tateurndina ocellicauda is the species I'm speaking of. Here's a good link....
http/www.seriouslyfish.com/profile.php?genus=Tateurndina&species=ocellicauda&id=786

yeah, these are the ones my LFS has....research online says they only eat baby shrimp...

 

[Dieses Madchen]

This is why I gave up guppies. They're beautiful, fun to watch, curious, and interactive, but I couldn't stand the aggression. But since they are so social, I'd think keeping just one would be cruel.

Not all of them are calm lol. I had some mafia guppies a while back that rolled on the tank like a gang. 5 males...scared the poop out of my 4 inch sowrdtails! I had to take them back to the lfs cause they were nipping my other fish.

 

[Crossfire]

This link here says they can be kept with all the fish/shrimp in my tank...
link

 

[thereverendturtle]

Not everything online is true. I have a twenty gallon with 7 of each of the following... preacox rainbows, black phantoms, long fin serpaes and bleeding hearts. Plus a pair of bn plecos and a very small dull eyed royal panaque. Add the rainbows, stay up on water conditions and you'll be good.

 

[Crossfire]

Not everything online is true. I have a twenty gallon with 7 of each of the following... preacox rainbows, black phantoms, long fin serpaes and bleeding hearts. Plus a pair of bn plecos and a very small dull eyed royal panaque. Add the rainbows, stay up on water conditions and you'll be good.

Its not the water conditions im afraid of, its that i was told that they're very active fish, too active for a 20 gal..like putting zebra danios in a 10 gallon tank

 

[thereverendturtle]

This link here says they can be kept with all the fish/shrimp in my tank...
link

Copied this from the link....
Tank Mates: 
Fellow good mixers include dwarf gouramis, sparkling gouramis,
honey gouramis, white clouds, featherfin rainbows, kuhli loaches,
glassfish, killifish, otocinclus, red cherry shrimp, ghost shrimp, and
other mini-fishes.

 

[Crossfire]

This link here says they can be kept with all the fish/shrimp in my tank...
link

Copied this from the link....
Tank Mates: 
Fellow good mixers include dwarf gouramis, sparkling gouramis,
honey gouramis, white clouds, featherfin rainbows, kuhli loaches,
glassfish, killifish, otocinclus, red cherry shrimp, ghost shrimp, and
other mini-fishes.

sooo...thats a yes to the gobys?

 

[thereverendturtle]

I had mine in a 4' 60 gal, they spent their entire stint in that tank, using only 1/4 of the tank. They are more active in my twenty.