1) What will happen if 2 male and 1 female in a tank? As I know they perfer 2 female with 1 male
2) If I dont sperate with the female and male, will my tank get over population?
3) If the tank only have 1 male and female, will the baby all look the same?
4) If I sell the guppy to the pet store, how much they will offer? 10 cent each???
All questions are about Guppy
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2006-08-10 22:27:50 · 9 answers · asked by Adam 45653 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
1) If you keep two male and one female your female will be going to give birth to baby's with many strains in them effects of colour vary's with their chromosomes and they will mix up giving beautiful effects in fry's.
2) Over popullation only take place if your all fry's survive till puberty because one bathch of fry's are not much but when the fry's will start to reproduce you will be in trouble as your tank will be full of fry's until you give them to friends or transfer them to other tank.
3) No not at all baby will not look similar.They will look similar until they start to obtain colours and it will take time.
4) Most pet store will not except your guppies.It's true that some will.It mostly depends on how much guppies are sell in a particular store.
2006-08-11 02:37:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you have more males then females, the females will be bothered a lot, but no harm comes to them in my tank.
If you don't separate the male and female, fewer fry sill survive, but some always do.
A female can carry enough sperm in her for five batches of fry, so she could be producing young from multiple fathers and there will be some variation of colors within a batch of fry.
I give my extra fish to my local pet store. I have never considered asking them to pay for them (I also only have two or three to give away at any given time). I don't know how big your tank is but it takes a few months for guppies to reach maturity and look salable.
This is a site you may enjoy browsing through
http://www.guppies.com/breeding.html
2006-08-11 02:27:31 · answer #2 · answered by iceni 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should have equal or have more females than males, because the girls get stressed out from being chased around to much.
Yeah your tank can get over populated, if you remove all the hiding spaces, the babies will get eaten by their parents. (Which is what you want to happen).
It depends on the genes, they'll look a like, but unless their the pure breed strain, they'll be a little different from each other.
Pet stores won't buy them from you, unless your really an experienced breeder.
2006-08-10 22:51:49 · answer #3 · answered by lilith 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1It all depends on what you want. Two males and one female will mean the males are constantly trying to mate and may wear themselves out and die. the see each other as rivals.
2. yes you tank will quickly become over populated
3. if they came from a one colour tank then they will probably breed true, but if there wre numerous colurs in the tank they could produce any colour.
4, pet stores will probably not buy from the home breeder because they buy in bulk from commercial breeders at very low prices and what you pay is not reflected in this price because of overheads and taxes.
2006-08-10 22:37:24 · answer #4 · answered by stevehart53 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i had purchased two fan tail guppy's (romeo and juliet ), and they reproduced-and then they reproduced-and then they reproduced (whew) before i knew it my tank had about 50-60 guppies of all stages swimming around-oh-my-i did notice that the second and third (inbred) generation, were more vibrant in color, there tails were longer-and some even split-like a mermaid-very pretty-
the pet store would only purchase them in pairs-it was like 1$ ( approx) per two pair-at the end i was just giving them away-they mulitplied so fast i couldnt keep up with them. They said that guppys were hard to succesfully reproduce-well just a myth i say-my tank was overloaded.-and it was..
i now have two fantail guppies, and 3 algae eaters-the algae eaters maintain the tank-and i havnt had any guppy babys in some time-
i do keep a baby net-just in case i have to seperate them-but i havnt had too in some time-
guppys can and will take over your tank-if you let them.
i did find the more they bred-the prettier they got-the pet store was amazed at the amount of guppys my tank reproduced.
2006-08-10 22:42:30 · answer #5 · answered by gemini~~~marie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when i bought my first guppies i didn't know that they will breed so much.. i had 1 female and 2 males the babies came out grate different.
2- yes it will get over population, i transferred same to another tank.
3. yes and no same of them they would look different.
4. i don't know, i used to give them as a birthday gift to my cosines and Friends kids, children like them.
2006-08-10 22:47:49 · answer #6 · answered by ♥ amal_dxb ♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the tank will get overpopulated with lots of babies coz they will mate they av babies up to 20-50 but the good thing is the parents eat there babies so the population will decrease
2006-08-10 22:35:34 · answer #7 · answered by c_mikilas 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
(1) nothing will happen
(2)more than likekly
(3)there will b variations of de 2
(4)never sold a fish so dont know
2006-08-11 07:43:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://oror.essortment.com/guppycarefish_rfig.htm
2006-08-10 22:34:17 · answer #9 · answered by alwayzatemptation69 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋