Male N Female Guppies

gordi

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if i have 4male guppies n if put a female into the tank with them is the possibility of mating very high? if soo are the younglings easy to care for etc? i have a female betta and a dwrf gourami in the tank with them too so would the babies be at risk if the guppies did mate and produce fry?
 
if i have 4male guppies n if put a female into the tank with them is the possibility of mating very high? if soo are the younglings easy to care for etc? i have a female betta and a dwrf gourami in the tank with them too so would the babies be at risk if the guppies did mate and produce fry?
the possibilty of death for the female is even higher. don't put her through that kind of stress
 
I agree with Xavier, the chances are she'd be constantly harassed by the males.
 
To answer your questions...

Male guppies, or livebearers of any sort, are sex craved. They'll chase anything that looks like a female guppy and will often drive it to the limit. This is why you want at least two females for any male, so he can try to divide his attention between the females and hopefully, they can manage to stick together to keep the male away. This doesn't always work however. Now if you were to get eight females in there, you would be fine, but I don't know the size of your tank and I will presume you can't stock it that way. Now, all fish, including the parents, will eat the fry. When they're bigger than the biggest fishes mouth you can introduce them to the tank. They aren't hard to raise, just stick them in a small, 2 gallon ish tank, more depending on the batch, as they aren't big poopers, and feed them three times a day in very small amounts with liquifry or regular tiny little crushed up flakes.
 
how do you get the fry out of the big tank and into a smaller one?
 
well i use a small clean glass, the sucktion sucks the fry in then they are transported to my seperate tank, but i would not reccomend you get a female as the 4 males would stress her to death
 

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