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bet there's 100-150 in there. Is that too many?

2006-06-07 20:43:39 · 11 answers · asked by jeter's gal 3 in Pets Fish

I got to looking, I bet there's closer to 100 rather than 150, so that's better....??

2006-06-11 21:32:17 · update #1

11 answers

1 cm of fish needs 1 liter water...

transformed, approx. gives:

0.4 inches of fish needs 0.26 gallons water
you can have about 77 inches of fish in 20 gallons of water
a guppy is about 1.5 inches -> 51 guppies in your tank.

2006-06-08 06:16:34 · answer #1 · answered by zsozso 4 · 0 0

I think you will be OK the rule is 1 inch of fish per gallon of water and guppies are only about 1\2 of fish the rest is tail fin if the tank is clear smells ok and the fish are active just do 20 % water change twice a month instead of once. maybe add some air stones and additional filtration.and by the way separating the males wont help for a while because the females store sperm for just such situations

2006-06-11 08:38:31 · answer #2 · answered by yankabilly46 1 · 0 0

Too many guppies! Guppies breed like flies! Give away enough guppies to weed the number down to 12-15 guppies,(4-5 males, 8-10 females) and then get a type of fish that loves to eat the little babies. A few babies will still survive to reach adulthood, but you won't have the amounts you do now. Or make a pond in your backyard, and let them breed as much as they want to in it. Guppies love mosquito larvae!

2006-06-08 04:29:26 · answer #3 · answered by imzadi 3 · 0 1

test your water quality. Im assuming a good number of them are babys, you will need to eventually start sorting through color varietys you want to keep to breed, and donate the rest to a small petshop that takes trade ins. You want about a gallon of water per inch. Adult guppys can get up to 2 inches, but as i said im assuming you have babies mixed in as well. If you test your water quality, and your ammonia is high it is possible for your tank to reach a point where with two many fish producing waste your biological will not be able to break down any more ammonia and the tank will crash. 20 gallons isnt really alot of water, so the tank is not going to stay stable, for instance my 30 gallon tank i have to pay more attentions to water quality wise because it is a smaller water mass. My 125 gallon tank, even if it got out of balance would take a much longer time for the water chemistry to shift due to the larger water mass. Make sense? anyways, if you test your water and your ammo. is fine but your nitrate is high or getting high, this is a indirect killer of fish. NITrates will cause fungal and bacterial issues with fish over a period of time and will eventuall cause death by things such as fin rot, septicimia, body fungis, etc. IF your having any problems with this i reccomend Melefx- by aquarim pharmacuticals it will take care of any fungals, and just keep up with water changes, and gravel syphoning. THe best set up for breeding would be to have a second 10 gallon tank.this tank would have a hang on back filter and have a undergravel filtration system, i would also recommend powerhead( with reverse flow) to attach to the undergravel. This tank would be the baby tank and the way it is set up will allow you not to have to gravel syphon with the babys present . That way in the adult 20 gallon tank you will be able to preform proper maintanence with out worry about sucking up the babys in the gravel syphon.

2006-06-08 04:48:05 · answer #4 · answered by talisy77 4 · 0 0

definately too many. do you have a cat? lol lower the water temperature so that they breed less. (under 75 degrees F) also feed them twice a day with less ammounts in the servings. get a non-livebearing fish (goldfish, maybe tetras, NOT platys, mollies, or swordtails as they are livebearing) that will eat the babies and the smaller guppies. your tanks occupant ammount should go down within a few weeks. i suggest flushing some of them, still. they are going to start getting sick and underdeveloped if you leave them overcrowded like that.

2006-06-08 05:23:22 · answer #5 · answered by ssj_ait 2 · 0 0

I think you are over estimating but in some of my tanks a few guppies have multiplied to hundreds and they seem to limit themselves. Give them good water circulation with an aerator or filter that agitates the water surface.

Regularly return some to your local shop or give them to friends who know how to keep them.

Removes males that have ugly colors and patterns and after a few years they will all look similar! They are difficult to refine!

2006-06-08 02:57:29 · answer #6 · answered by Raj 4 · 0 0

too many! you need at MINIMUM 2 gallons of water per guppy. So you should have 10 guppies in that tank! yikes! for my goldfish i have 2 in a 15 gallon and that is appropriate. it's a common mistake to overstock tanks. fish need a lot more space than we think!!

2006-06-07 20:49:59 · answer #7 · answered by t1g8h81 3 · 0 1

Yeah that's a lot. I reccommend finding homes for half of them. Buying another 20 gallon tank and separating the males and females because they will just keep mating.

2006-06-08 19:54:02 · answer #8 · answered by Miss. Kitty 3 · 0 0

you have WAY too many guppies in there. either get a bigger tank or get rid of a few.

2006-06-08 07:02:18 · answer #9 · answered by crazy_dog_gemini 2 · 0 0

if you want to keep them all, try to do daily 25% water changes.

but you shouldn't keep more than 40 of them.

take the rest to the LFS and swop them.

2006-06-07 23:04:36 · answer #10 · answered by � Fuzzy Dice 5 · 0 0

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