Endler Questions!

[linher1215]

I recently got about 15 Endlers and have them in a 14 gallon tank. Today when I was doing a routine water change I saw a baby bumping along the bottom of the tank on the gravel. So far I have not seen any other babies.

My question is how many babies do Endlers usually have? Don't the babies have the ability to swim around good at birth like guppies?

I thought Endlers were bigger like guppies. Mine are small. The males are less than an inch long. Some of the females are bigger, maybe about an inch. Is this the usual size for them?


All advice on Endlers is greatly appreciated!!

 

[kribensis12]

Mlaes are smaller than females for endlers, and sometimes for fancy guppies. Fancy guppies are bigger than endlers. Endlers are a type pf guppy. Yeah babies can be born and swim right after birth. Also, Endlers usually have around 25-40 babies per birth.

 

[5teady_2012]

I recently got about 15 Endlers and have them in a 14 gallon tank. Today when I was doing a routine water change I saw a baby bumping along the bottom of the tank on the gravel. So far I have not seen any other babies.

My question is how many babies do Endlers usually have? Don't the babies have the ability to swim around good at birth like guppies?

I thought Endlers were bigger like guppies. Mine are small. The males are less than an inch long. Some of the females are bigger, maybe about an inch. Is this the usual size for them?


All advice on Endlers is greatly appreciated!!

Endlers are smaller than guppies..

The male are smaller than females and have much more color, females have no color at all...

Endlers will breed every 23-28 days (although they can breed as little as every 16 days) - mine are doing every 17

Usually they dont have as many fry has guppies, more between 10-20 (although mine have 20-30)

The fry do tend survive better than most has the endler adults dont bother them.. (although they have been known to eat them)

If you have just endlers in your tank, expect a rapid grow in your community of them so be prepared to have someone to take them off your hands


Edited
After several months of experimenting, i found that lower temperatures provided more males from births.. higher temps would get more females.. thought you might want to know that too

 

[OldMan47]

Endlers in a tank of their own go like this.
I bought 5 pairs of endlers and put them in a 20 gallon tank by themselves last October. The oldest male was and still is about 3/4 inch long. The oldest female was and still is about 1 inch long. Today my 20 has overflowed into a 45 and both tanks are full to the point that I am looking around for some place to move them or sell some. They are being kept at 25C, a pH of 7.6 and a hardness of about 12 degrees (TDS is 200 ppm). The male / female ratio of fry is about 50 / 50. The tanks have some plant matter where the new fry can hide but they are out with the adults and not being bothered by them by the time they are about 1/4 inch long.
They eat the same food I feed my adults which is mostly a good flake food with occasional feedings of frozen brine shrimp, frozen blood worms and frozen daphnia. The frozen foods are not a major part of their diet although all my fish seem to like them.