Getting Rid Of Guppies, Maybe?

[unspoken930]

At the moment, i have a 2.5 gallon tank with a sponge filter (The 5 minute one) with 4 guppy fry that i am getting rid of when they get alittle bigger, a 3 gallon marineland eclipse tank with 2 guppy fry and 3 rasbora axelrodi blue in it (they only get to be like 1/4 inch long) and a 12 gallon marineland eclipse with 3 harlequin rasboras, 2 threadfin rainbowfish, 2 neons (they are pretty old, i dont want to move them or introduce anymore) 5 guppys (2 male 3 female... i know not reccomended stocking ratio but they do fine) and 2 or so guppy fry. I also have 2 cherry shrimp to keep algae at bay.

What I was wondering though, is if i could get rid of all of my guppys except one male and 2 females and move the rasbora axelrodi blue into the 12 gal. sell all of the guppy fry, and put one dwarf puffer in the 3 gallon tank, and a betta in the 2.5 gallon. I also have about a 3.5 gallon tank with 2 ADF's in it, but it stays at room temp, and has a little light over it. It also has the 5 minute sponge filter in it. If you have any suggestions for the tanks, id love to hear them.

I absolutely love rainbow fish , so if yall think you know of one that might work out or something, please respond. All water stats and perfect exccept maybe the frog tank, which might have ammonia around .5 ppm, i need to check though as i have been working on that.

Oh by the way, all of my tanks are heavily planted except the frogs, but it has some fast growing floating stuff and the surface has some duckweed.

Thanks guys.

 

[GuppiesRGr8]

OK...PLZ COULD U SIMPLIFY SO ME AND OTHER 1 BRAIN CELLED PEOPLE GET THE DRIFT.

THANKS IN ADVANCE

JIMMY

 

[unspoken930]

err... its straightforward.... um caps lock is kind of rude btw.

 

[SamUK]

At the moment, i have a 2.5 gallon tank with a sponge filter (The 5 minute one) with 4 guppy fry that i am getting rid of when they get alittle bigger, a 3 gallon marineland eclipse tank with 2 guppy fry and 3 rasbora axelrodi blue in it (they only get to be like 1/4 inch long) and a 12 gallon marineland eclipse with 3 harlequin rasboras, 2 threadfin rainbowfish, 2 neons (they are pretty old, i dont want to move them or introduce anymore) 5 guppys (2 male 3 female... i know not reccomended stocking ratio but they do fine) and 2 or so guppy fry. I also have 2 cherry shrimp to keep algae at bay.

What I was wondering though, is if i could get rid of all of my guppys except one male and 2 females and move the rasbora axelrodi blue into the 12 gal. sell all of the guppy fry, and put one dwarf puffer in the 3 gallon tank, and a betta in the 2.5 gallon. I also have about a 3.5 gallon tank with 2 ADF's in it, but it stays at room temp, and has a little light over it. It also has the 5 minute sponge filter in it. If you have any suggestions for the tanks, id love to hear them.

I absolutely love rainbow fish , so if yall think you know of one that might work out or something, please respond. All water stats and perfect exccept maybe the frog tank, which might have ammonia around .5 ppm, i need to check though as i have been working on that.

Oh by the way, all of my tanks are heavily planted except the frogs, but it has some fast growing floating stuff and the surface has some duckweed.

Thanks guys.

im not sure but i think DP's need 5 gallon minimum but apart from that it all sounds great!

have a read in the oddballs section of the fish index on this site. it will say the DP's minimum tank size there.


i think rainbow fish are a bit too active for any of your tanks. mine dart about all over the place.

it seems MTS already has a good hold on you tho so im sure it wont be long till you get something a little bigger. lol.

um caps lock is kind of rude btw.

agreed.

 

[unspoken930]

When we move to our hose being built (theres 3 of us in a 2 bed room, one main room apartment right now ) i get to have a 120 gallon tank so... its going to be heavily planted and have a wide variety of rainbow fish in it... so excited... but do you think getting rid of the majority of the guppies is a good idea?

 

[SamUK]

to be honest, yes.


even if you regret it youll have about 50 more in 4 weeks time from the ones you keep.


the 120G sounds great. i have a pair of new guinea red rainbows and i cant wait for them to get full grown.

there great now, a right pair but they look even cooler when there grown.

bosemani are stunning too but i dont have room at the moment for any.

 

[jayjay]

What I was wondering though, is if i could get rid of all of my guppys except one male and 2 females and move the rasbora axelrodi blue into the 12 gal. sell all of the guppy fry, and put one dwarf puffer in the 3 gallon tank, and a betta in the 2.5 gallon. I also have about a 3.5 gallon tank with 2 ADF's in it

sounds good to me if that's all there will be in the tanks. if i understand correctly.

 

[unspoken930]

Well i cant get rid of one... when it was a baby a fish bit it and it wasnt enough to kill it, but now her spine is crooked and i call her humpy lol... but i know if i took her to an LFS she would be used as a feeder or just flushed and im pretty attached. The other female id like to keep is really cool, if i put my hand in the tank she swims up to it and kind of "sits" in my palm. So anyways, do you think if i got rid of 2 (one male, one female, plus all babies) that i could put the little rasboras in the big tank? they produce very low waste.

 

[geo7x]

Minimum tank size - For this I would offer 3g. This is a little lower than I would be willing to house my puffers in, as I'm occasionally slack with water changes. However, if you're very particular about water changes, and can find an effective filter for a 3 gallon tank that will cope with the waste, you're looking at 3g for a single dwarf puffer. More realistically, I would offer 5g per puffer. Overfiltering a 5g tank is easier to do than overfiltering a 3g tank, and, you have the extra 2gallons per puffer to dilute waste, meaning that you have a little room for error, and to make an error is only human. If you are keeping 2 puffers together, then I recommend 5g per puffer to keep arguments and squabbles to a minimum.

Quoted are recommended DP setups -



3g - Single Dwarf Puffer (if overfiltered and maintained religiously)
5g - Single Dwarf Puffer (if overfiltered and maintained religiously. Of course, you have a margin for error in this setup)
10g - A Pair of dwarf puffers, 3 ottos.

thats from the dwarf puffer pinned thread incase you hadnt looked there. so from what it says you could have a DP in the three gallon, but it might be difficult, and as the poster said, he/she personally would probably choose not to house a DP in a 3 gallon, but you can if you think youre up to religiously maintaining it (lol) then its you can, it's up to you i think. what ive said is just from what ive read just to let you know

 

[SamUK]

Well i cant get rid of one... when it was a baby a fish bit it and it wasnt enough to kill it, but now her spine is crooked and i call her humpy lol... but i know if i took her to an LFS she would be used as a feeder or just flushed and im pretty attached. The other female id like to keep is really cool, if i put my hand in the tank she swims up to it and kind of "sits" in my palm. So anyways, do you think if i got rid of 2 (one male, one female, plus all babies) that i could put the little rasboras in the big tank? they produce very low waste.

yea that would be fine.

and i didnt mean to get rid of them all anyway. i jus meant what you had planned sounded fine .


i have a platty fry that never grew called igor and hes in a lil 3 gallon by himself.

dont see him much tho cos he tends to sit on the floor between gravel or on leaves and hes only about 1cm and hes about 7 months old.

 

[unspoken930]

aww

Hmm so any good fish for a heavily planted mature 3 gallon tank with excelent filtration aside from a betta? i love bettas, but i know id try to breed them and then id have more fish and i dont need more fish becuase i dont have room.... so anything aside from a guppy or a fish that will breed like mad would be good. Ill also have the 2..5 gallon open and id love to put something cool in there, maybe just a few shrimps though.

 

[jayjay]

i think all these options are ok not sure though

a betta
trio of killifish
a red claw crab
a dwarf puffer
shrimp
snails
adf's
bumblebee goby
endlers.

 

[GuppiesRGr8]

sorry everyone for using capitles

 

[SamUK]

aww

Hmm so any good fish for a heavily planted mature 3 gallon tank with excelent filtration aside from a betta? i love bettas, but i know id try to breed them and then id have more fish and i dont need more fish becuase i dont have room.... so anything aside from a guppy or a fish that will breed like mad would be good. Ill also have the 2..5 gallon open and id love to put something cool in there, maybe just a few shrimps though.

think id have a betta in one and shrimp and frogs in the other.

would be different to your other tanks and shrimp are kewl lil things.

theyl both appreciate heavily planted tanks too.

 

[unspoken930]

Ive heard you cant keep frogs and shrimp together... atleast thats what the LFS guy told me, and he actually had somme knowlage... supposedly owns a 200 gallon tank and blah blah blah... lol