Help me.... I am being over run by them. I only have a 10 gal tank and need to seperate male and females as well as give some up.
2007-06-20 18:00:44 · 6 answers · asked by jacksond2504 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
You can tell the genders apart on the adults by looking at thier anal fins - the males is long, thin, and pointed, the females' is fan-shaped. See examples in the photos of these platys" http://www.drta-archiv.de/Fische/Zahnkarpfen/Platys/images/platys.jpg
You'll need to wait a while before you can determine the fry.
One bit of bad news - the females can store sperm, and can continue to give birth to live youns for up to 6 months (on average, once every 28 days).
2007-06-20 18:11:08 · answer #1 · answered by copperhead 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Guppies are Live Bearers as are Mollies & Swordtails.
2007-06-21 01:03:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, dont buy alot of guppies, just get two, and why did you ask this question twice? To get in the system to other catogories so more people can grab attention?( and anyways, its pretty nice.)
And since you cant control all of your fish, just keep 4(2female 2 male) or 2(1female 1male)
2007-06-21 01:38:12 · answer #3 · answered by MistyFlower 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
live birth
2007-06-21 01:08:25 · answer #4 · answered by itDumbo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are livebearers, here is a link for you to determine which ones are female or male
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3F_adv_prop%3Dimage%26fr%3Dks-ques%26va%3Dfemale%2Bguppies%26sz%3Dall&w=631&h=452&imgurl=zoology.okstate.edu%2Fzoo_lrc%2Fbiol1114%2Fpre-labs%2Fguppies%2Fimages%2Fmale%2Bfemale2.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fzoology.okstate.edu%2Fzoo_lrc%2Fbiol1114%2Fpre-labs%2Fguppies&size=31.1kB&name=male%2Bfemale2.jpg&p=female+guppies&type=jpeg&no=2&tt=226&oid=f0d6bdc6bd9cd46a&ei=ISO-8859-1
Good luck
Hope that helped
2007-06-21 01:10:31 · answer #5 · answered by Kribensis lover 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like you have good supply of feeder fish.....now you just need to find someone who needs them....maybe your local pet store will take some off of your hands....
2007-06-21 01:22:01 · answer #6 · answered by bernman101 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋