briielzebub
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My neighbor got evicted, so I ended up with his horribly overstocked fish tanks. Ones a 28 gal will 3 guppies, 1 swordtail, 1 oscar, 3 convicts, and 2 common plecos. Yeah...bloodbath waiting to happen. Luckily no one but the pleco is over 3 inches and its a tall tank so the cichlids haven't discovered the livebearers. The other tank is a 20 gL with 1 jack dempsey (full grown), and about 10 >1" baby convicts. But that doesn't really have anything to do with this post I guess.
So the thing is, the oscar will end up eating all the livebearers and killing the convicts (maybe) if I don't remove them. I really could care less about livebearers. I've kept a couple platies before but it never really stuck. I don't want to keep these fish, but on the other hand I'd hate for my neighbors fish to all eat eachother while he's finding a new home.
I likethe swordtail. He's a male, I think he might be a pinneapple sward but I know nothing about them... if any of the livebearers survive, I'd like it to be him. I have a live planted 20 gal that is the future home of some apistogramma panduros, which has 2 black phantom tetras (keep going back to finsih the school but no matter where I go they seem to be sick) and one farlowella catfish. I'd like to put the sword tail in there.
So, can I keep a swordtail alone? Its kind of for his own sake since I don't want him dead. I don't want any more livebearers, they aren't my kind of fish and take up my stocking space. Could he live long term in a tank with 6 black phantom tetras, a pair of apistos, and the catfish, or would there be a problem?
Or....I know this might be insane...could he go in a 7 gal betta tank? I've had platies in there before and they got along fine but I figure swordtails get bigger?
Sorry I'm livebearer stupid...I'm a cichlid person and it seems to be two totally different worlds
So the thing is, the oscar will end up eating all the livebearers and killing the convicts (maybe) if I don't remove them. I really could care less about livebearers. I've kept a couple platies before but it never really stuck. I don't want to keep these fish, but on the other hand I'd hate for my neighbors fish to all eat eachother while he's finding a new home.
I likethe swordtail. He's a male, I think he might be a pinneapple sward but I know nothing about them... if any of the livebearers survive, I'd like it to be him. I have a live planted 20 gal that is the future home of some apistogramma panduros, which has 2 black phantom tetras (keep going back to finsih the school but no matter where I go they seem to be sick) and one farlowella catfish. I'd like to put the sword tail in there.
So, can I keep a swordtail alone? Its kind of for his own sake since I don't want him dead. I don't want any more livebearers, they aren't my kind of fish and take up my stocking space. Could he live long term in a tank with 6 black phantom tetras, a pair of apistos, and the catfish, or would there be a problem?
Or....I know this might be insane...could he go in a 7 gal betta tank? I've had platies in there before and they got along fine but I figure swordtails get bigger?
Sorry I'm livebearer stupid...I'm a cichlid person and it seems to be two totally different worlds
