What is a good choice of fish to live with guppies?

Question

I'm going to start a tank and I like guppies. What are good fish to put with guppies so that I don't have any issues. Can I put an Angel fish with guppies? What would be some good choices? I don't have a tank yet, but I will make sure to get one large enough to properly house the amount of fish that I get.

Answer 1

Personally I like tetras with guppies. They are very colorful, peaceful and tend to live in the middle of the tank while the guppies tend to live more at the surface. To round this tank off I would also include a few cory catfish that generally live on the bottom. Then you have pretty and interesting fish at every layer of the tank and no problems with aggression.

MM

Answer 2

A few cory cats are always a great addition to any community tank, they won't ever bother other fish. Mollies and Platys are cool friendly fish. A nice little school of Neon Tetras, or Zebra Danios. A single or maybe a pair of dwarf gouramis.

You shouldn't have a problem with the Angelfish and the guppies, but Angels can be aggressive toward many other fish and I personally don't recommend them in a community tank.

Here is a chart that can give you a general idea of the compatibility of different fish.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/general/fwcompatibility_chart.cfm

Answer 3

Guppies are peaceful community fish and will get along with other community fish of similar size. You can mix them with Tetras, Rasboras, Danios, other live bearing fish like Platys or Mollies, and even some of the more peaceful Gouramis like Dwarf Gouramis, Pearl Gouramis or Honey Gouramis. You have lots of choices. You should consider getting Cory Catfish or small Loaches for bottom feeders in your tank. Do not get Angelfish as you Guppies may become lunch to them one day.

Answer 4

You probaly could put angelfish with them but if you can keep them alive till they grow large, they might eat your guppys. I suggest you get some platys or mollies. Are you a begginer aquarist? You should quarintine your fish before putting them in and read up alot on the fish. If you look at websites, double check to see if the information is correct by checking other webs. If you want to breed look up breeding anywhere online.

Answer 5

Guppies are tropical community fish, which means they are very peaceful and get along with other peaceful fish. Mollies, platys, danios or cory catfish would all be perfect companions, and they're all about the same size.

Answer 6

EVERYTHING eats guppy babies! Unless you segregate the female shortly before birth, and get her away from them quickly, even she will eat them [sometimes while still birthing]. If there is plenty of low vegetation and rocks you may have a few survive.

Small angels who grow large, don't eat long term tank mates, but anything new that will fit in their mouth is food.

Answer 7

I love cory catfish. You'll want to get about 3 to 6 of them because they do better in groups.

They will stay at the bottom of your tank aside from occassionally swiming to the top to get a gulp of air. (That's normal in cory catfish.) They are small, only about 2" long when full grown. They are peaceful and spend their time eating whatever the other fish drop and algae, etc. (Make sure you get some sinking food so they don't go hungry.)

Answer 8

You don't want to put them with angels- when the angels are adults, the guppies will be lunch.

Some choices would be platies, tetras, corydoras catfish, dwarf gourami, white clouds, rasboras, smaller tetras, smaller danios, and kuhli loaches The corydoras and kuhlis should be kept in groups of 3+, the tetras in groups of 5+.

Try this websire for more options: http://www.timstropicals.com/Compatibility/NameResults.asp

Answer 9

I have a smililar set up to what most are reccomending. Guppies and tetras and corys swordtails plus 4 ghost shrimps~

Im pasting this is many places haha, this is a clip of my tank.. check it out to see them in harmony.
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=719176

Answer 10

Beta fishes are actually non aggressive with other fish. (Just very aggresive and will kill one another with their own kind). They are beautiful to look at and low matience. They are slow swimmers and just kinda hang around. My siste rin law has one with a few mudskippers in there and they get along just fine. They arent big eaters either! Good luck girl!!