feeder guppies

[EX-AmP]

hey could i buy 10 dollars worth, put them in a heavily planted tank, and expect fry to live?

 

[Mesome]

I have guppies in a 10 gallon and the fry do just fine without seperating them from the mom. I'd add plenty of floating plants...

 

[Ben]

they will only survibe if it is just guppys and alot of hiding plant such as java fern

 

[Tempestuousfury]

You could definitely gte some fry to survive.

How big will the tank be? If it'll be big, you could get a ratio of 1 male to 3 females, and have tons of fry. if nothing else, the fry will feed their parents.

 

[druxboyz]

10 dollars worth of FEEDER guppies means about 120 guppies where i live. You're gonna have babies up the ying yang quick

 

[Tempestuousfury]

I don't think the original post was for feeders because I thought the same thing. Plus, it's safer to go with tank-bred fish because they are more forgiving of mistakes and less than perfect atnk conditions.

 

[EX-AmP]

well i didnt actually mean 10. i meant along the lines of 5. i usually hold guppies in my community tank and feed them to my cichlids. (sorry i have been trying to get them on flakes but this was all they ate at my lfs). i noticed some pregnant females and i moved them into my fry tank with my month old mollies. they are around the same size and i was also wondering if my mollies would eat their fry. they are maybe tops a centimeter. how big would the fry be if the guppies did however drop? thanks

 

[Ben]

if ur molly babys are only 1 cm they usually wont eat the guppy fry but the moher might