How Much Do U Love Livebearers

[terrorist_124]

i love livebearers and currently over half my fish are livebearers

i got bored and wanted to see if everyone thinks they are great

 

[dwarfgourami]

I would love to fill all my tanks with small unusual poeciliids; the only snag I am coming up against is that I can't sell them locally unless they are very very colourful- couldn't get any takers for my beautiful portholes, though the lfs were happy to take any number of bristlenoses. As I don't drive and am tied to the house a lot with a disabled child, I am beginning to feel I need to move over to something that will either not breed or will be popular in this benighted part of the world. I haven't got room for a fish house and I can't rely on being able to get to auctions. But if I had my will, this house would be filled with merry widows, heterandrias of different kinds, girardinus etc. Atm what I have (apart from left-over platies and guppies) is an ever-expanding school of portholes (very nice fish) and a small colony of phallichthys tico, also nice but thankfully slower breeders.

 

[helterskelter]

Their is a good few people who keep and breed many rare livebearers, but sadly very few shops want them. Livebeares auctions is the best places to sell and fins stuff, but if u cant get along then thats a shame.

I used to have over 50 tanks with about 80% of the fish being livebeares and i still have that tanks but no space for them

 

[luque]

i love them but i always miss them giving birth. i am raising my chances tomorrow im buying 3 guppies.

luke

 

[mommyof2bettas]

I love them but I do not only keep livebearers.

 

[kpintheshed]

i voted 4 number 2

 

[fishboy619]

i voted for number 2, but mainly because i have all the fry aswell as the adults. but usally, (without the fry) i have about the same number or livebearers and other fish. i keep platies and guppies

 

[lilfishie]

i voted 2, i have a 15 gal with guppies, 3x 5gal with guppy fry, 3x2.5 gal with fry and a 15gal with 2BN plec and 4 cardinals, altogether i have about 40 guppies

 

[terrorist_124]

most people will probably choose number 2 since you cant get them to stop reproducing

 

[three-fingers]

I do love livebearers, but not like the fancy variety's of guppys too much....
Trouble is my soft acidic (pH 6.5-6.8 ) water means I cant really keep any of the common livebearers, though I may try some in my water again when I get my bigger tank set up.
I just like the character, the shape and the fact that I could get babies (I would save some and let nature take it's course with the ones I couldn't catch.

I plan on keeping halfbeaks though, but I'm divided about them because 1)They will more than likely eat any smaller tetras I could want to get 2)They are hard to come by (but I could order them in) and 3)I've heard they can be pretty sensative...

Also they could be expensive.

And I cant make it to any livebearer auctions .

Anyone here keep common livebearers in soft acidic water?

I voted 1, for now.

 

[demonmagus]

I had to vote for

i do not keep livebearers

but I would love to have many tanks for livebearers

 

[Birdie]

I voted 2 because I have some male guppies, and a whole bunch of Molly fry.

The mollies were a bit of a mistake - I bought their parents because they were/are absolutely lovely - but I had researched poorly [bad, bad, fishkeeper ] and hadn't accounted for the fact that
a) they like [more than] a bit of salt, which I can't provide and
b ) they make rabbits look like proponents of zero population growth - and I have nowhere to rehome a bazillion fry.
I rehomed the parents, but still have the babies. Even if I set up a brackish tank ( which I have considered) I still have the where-do-the-*next* lot-of-fry-go problem. If I put them into my new (freshwater) tank, I still have the salt issue.

But they are lovely fish, and if I didn't think my family would have an absolute hysteric, would gladly set up two brackish tanks, and have male mollies in one, and females in another LOL. But that won't be happening any time soon, I'm afraid - so I'm going to have to rehome them somehow.

So many livebearers are so beautiful.....in an ideal world, I'd love some pure Endlers