Tanks4myfish
New Member
I'm new to guppies and have had good and bad luck. My recent best luck with guppies is when I purchased a batch of feeder guppies after losing serveral fancy ones due to who knows what (being a newbie to guppies, or buying old and sick guppies, or water condition, etc).
I started 5 months ago with a 3 gallon tank - so small tanks do work. In that tank, I had 5 females and 8 males (all feeders that I bought for 90 cents). Quickly, got 10 fry, then another 10 and another... And for the next 4 months, I had a community of 54 small fry in with 13 adult guppies and not losing one. The strange part of all this is that I never changed water until the water was cloudy and murky from old food and algae, for I had no filtration system. I didn't measure ph or nitrate/nitrite, alkalinity, or any of that - I just changed the whole tank with tap water when it got dirty and added chlorine remover.
Talk about hardy fish, these guys are tough! Now that I've been on this forum, I learned that fry should be separated and so I did. The adult ones are now in a 10-gallon tank with filtration. I just lost a female, probably not due to the new tank. I think it was due to birthing so many. When I dissected her stomach, I found 21 unborn - sad.
Whether the fish like it or are doing better or worse under filtered water, I'm enjoying the clear water for better viewing ability.
I started 5 months ago with a 3 gallon tank - so small tanks do work. In that tank, I had 5 females and 8 males (all feeders that I bought for 90 cents). Quickly, got 10 fry, then another 10 and another... And for the next 4 months, I had a community of 54 small fry in with 13 adult guppies and not losing one. The strange part of all this is that I never changed water until the water was cloudy and murky from old food and algae, for I had no filtration system. I didn't measure ph or nitrate/nitrite, alkalinity, or any of that - I just changed the whole tank with tap water when it got dirty and added chlorine remover.
Talk about hardy fish, these guys are tough! Now that I've been on this forum, I learned that fry should be separated and so I did. The adult ones are now in a 10-gallon tank with filtration. I just lost a female, probably not due to the new tank. I think it was due to birthing so many. When I dissected her stomach, I found 21 unborn - sad.
Whether the fish like it or are doing better or worse under filtered water, I'm enjoying the clear water for better viewing ability.
