too much room for a guppy?

[trout_pout]

Is a 25 gallon tank too big for a guppy to breed>?
just wondering

 

[Tempestuousfury]

It should be ok. My guppies breed in a 45 gallon tank, and there are only 2 of them.

If this tank is only going to be a breeding tank, then it might be a bit big if you will only have one pair. however, if you have 3+ females, it would work. It'd be a bit desolate at the beginning, but you'd have lots of fry later on.

What're you going to do with the fry, by the way?

 

[trout_pout]

Well my friend is wanting them, so i will give some of them to him and another of my friends is wanting some also he is a total newbie so i might get him a male and 3 females and watch his face the next time i see him. Also My P.S.E. teacher is interested in fish, so I could give him one or two, if i wanted to bump up my grades

 

[Tempestuousfury]

P.S.E.? What does that mean?

If you're only going to give these fish to a few people, it's not worth it to use such a big tank.

However, if you could find a lfs to take them or if you decided to professionally breed them, then it'd be worth it.

You could use that tank as a community tank and raise the fry in a smaller tank. When they'd get big enough you could move the fry to the 25.

It's up to you, of course, but you could keep more than 4 fish in that tank.

 

[fishdudein]

Sorry to muddy up the water, but I do it just the opposite. My breeding stock go into a smaller tank, and any fry get put into a larger growout tank. Just seems to make more sense to me. Might depend on how many fry you have....

 

[fishy frenzy]

P.S.E = personal social education

 

[Tempestuousfury]

It's still not worth it to suck up in that way, though.

What fishdudein said makes sense. However, if you were to create a tank where you wanted the general populace to be all fry (or those fry that grew up), then what you want would make sense. Otherwise I'd go for a smaller tank or find a handful of lfs that would be interested in the fry.

 

[snowyangel]

Is a 25 gallon tank too big for a guppy to breed>?
just wondering

Guppies will breed in a 5 gallon, prob' even a 1 gallon Don't worry, you'll see fry in no time.....

 

[Gringo]

I have breed Guppies just for the fun of it. What I can tell you is that here in Paraguay almost all the small rivers and marsh lands have Guppies in them. From what I can see, they love really shallow water. Water from 2 to 6 inches deep. Hope you can come to some conclusion with this info.