Liverbearers Compatibility

[plecoman1413]

Hi I had a question about which live bearers are compatible together in a tank. My main question is will guppies get along with platties, mollies and swordtails? I have a tank with a couple young mollies and several guppies and they seem to be getting along. I also have a tank with a couple swordtails, guppies and platties.
Thank you for any help and im very sorry if this has been answered many times before.

 

[kribensis12]

You can keep almost all livebearer's together. The reason i said almost, is becasue i highly doubt you would want a 10 inch Pike Livebearer eating you fishies! Also, you probably dont want a great white shark either( they are livebearer's). What size tank is it?

Ohh Yeah, i almost forgot!!!!!! WELCOME TO THE FORUM'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[plecoman1413]

You can keep almost all livebearer's together. The reason i said almost, is becasue i highly doubt you would want a 10 inch Pike Livebearer eating you fishies! Also, you probably dont want a great white shark either( they are livebearer's). What size tank is it?

Ohh Yeah, i almost forgot!!!!!! WELCOME TO THE FORUM'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you very much for the welcome!
I have a 38 and a couple 10 gallons.
I had read on one web page that platties, mollies, and swordtails would attack guppies but thank you for clearing that up

 

[dunchp]

Yup, I agree with whats been said. The only thing is that Platies and Swordtails in particular will hybridise (i.e. breed together) and mollies and guppies may also hybridise.

Aslong as you are not too bothered with that then they will be fine.

I wouldn't bother too much with the goodeids such as the Red Tailed Goodeids as they could be a bit nippy but you could also consider some of the rarer poeciliids such as Limia melanogaster / nigrofasciata or Girardinus metallicus which you should be able to find in shops if you look hard enough.

 

[LauraFrog]

BIG mollies might attack guppies, in one of the irresponsible LFS's kind of near me, they put young guppies in a tank with massive sailfin mollies, which tried to eat the guppies, etc. etc.

If you want to keep guppies, don't choose jumbo sailfins, keep little lyretails. I have two small lyretail mollies in my tank and they won't eat half-grown platies. They will eat fry (love fry) but wont' eat juvies.

 

[dunchp]

Didn't know that. I thought jumbo sailfins (Poecilia velifera) were pretty placid creatures.

 

[plecoman1413]

One other question how would a tank of platties, mollies, and swordtails do with a Red Claw Crab or a Gold Fiddler Crab? would they get along? would they harm each other?

thank you very much!

 

[kribensis12]

Didn't know that. I thought jumbo sailfins (Poecilia velifera) were pretty placid creatures.

They are placid, but all fish are aggressive to some point, that is how they survive!

As for the crab idea, it could work, but crab's like red claws and fiddler's, need to be out of the water some time, so they need to be able to get out some how, adn also they are escape artist's. I had 2 Purple Fiddler's in a 30g tank with assorted mollies and stuff, and they climed up my filter intake, and live in my filter for a month. Then i opend up the filter, a nd almost died when i found them!!!!! I took them back as i didnt want them to get on the floor and die!

 

[bike_riding_cichlid]

As far as I know, any livebear will go with another.

 

[bucksgill]

As far as I know, any livebear will go with another.

I have Platys and Mollies atm and they are fine, my lfs told me i can add guppies and guppies and swordtails wil hybridise as said before so they will be fine, well thats what i think from my knowledge

 

[bucksgill]

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