Live Bearers

[Cutefishy678]

​

Sorry if I did something rong on this. Im new. Also confused. I wanted to say if there are any bgginers reading this and want to breed then you should pay close attetion.
Live bearers
Live Bearers means a fish that gives birth to it's babies. It does not lay eggs. If you are a begginer and want to breed start with, guppies, mollys,platies, and sword tails!! They are very easy to breed. But they are not meant for ponds. You need about a 5 gallong tank. You need all o the follwong, 5 gallon tank, filter, heater and here is the optional stuff but it is needed for a happy fish. Gravel, hiding spots like plants and the castle type stuff u put in their tank to play with. Now breeding is not just puting them in a tank. you have to have alot of equitment. It's very important to be prepared.
Before you buy a guppie get the supplies and set up it's tank. If you can't get a heather before buying lay out some water overnight and let it get room tempature. A filter is needed for them or they will not survive. Goldfish however are stronger and can live in terrible water condiotins but not for long.
Also do research and learn how to care for the fish. I will give you breeding directions on November, 7, 2009. So please come back and check.

 

[Amberleaf]

Sorry. Wrong section. This goes in Livebearers.

 

[jourdy288]

Just a warning, 5 gallons isn't enough for most livebearers, I'd recommend at least ten, and for mollies and swordtails, twenty.

 

[helterskelter]

Mollies and Swordtail's both need larger tanks than 5 gallons as the males can be very active.
With little space will stress females unless they have plenty of space to get away if they so wish so.

 

[OldMan47]

Welcome to the forum CuteFishy.
I moved this here because you are more likely to find livebearer keepers here than where you first posted.
I am going to agree that many livebearers require a tank much larger than a 5 gallon. Many of them I would hesitate to try to breed in even a 10 gallon. I would feel fine breeding Heterandria formosa in a tiny 5 gallon tank but not many others really. I have never tried any of the Micropoecilia so they may also work in small quarters. At least the fish themselves are small enough to suggest that they would be OK in such a small tank.

 

[dunchp]

I don't often post anymore, but I would not recommend keeping Micropoecilia in small tanks. I have limited experience of them, but I have found the males to be quite hard on the females and they do better with a stable environment that you wont get in a really small tank.

Species for a 25 litreish tank will include Neoheterandria elegans, Heterandria formosa and possibly, at a push some of the other smaller Poeciliids such as Phallichthys tico. No Goodeids, no Swords or Platys (possibly pygmaeus at a real push), no Mollies (Poecilia caucana maybe) and nothing that needs too clean water or too stable environment.