I have nothing but guppies and cory cats. I have a 29 gallon , and two 55 gallons, one of which isn't set up yet. All except for the one 55 gallon I haven't set up are cycled. I'm trying to keep my males seperated from the females because 7 of my females are pregnant and are having babies like crazy. I have my existing fish spread out like so:
29: 6 males 2 cory cats
55 gallon: 13 females plus about 20+ of their newborns
I also have a cycled 10 gallon with 13 more babies in it..
I'm aware that guppies can drop about 3-5 times after breeding once. Which is why I'm asking. Not many of my females are cannibals..I can't seem to find a good store that will take the fry. How many can I have in my tanks if I set up the other 55 before they become majorly overcrowded? I want to avoid culling if I can..
2007-07-12 09:04:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
On a side note, out of the 13 females 5 of them are half grown fry from one of the 7 that are pregnant, same goes with 2 of the males in my 29 gallon.
2007-07-12 09:08:41 · update #1
The inch per gallon rule certainly doesn't apply here ( or to any other tank in my opinion, but that's another rant).
Personally, I would say you can easily keep 40 adult guppies in a 29 and easily 70 in a 55 gallon. That's assuming good filtration adn good water changes weekly of course.
I know the feelings concerning culling, but do be sure to cull any that are deformed instead of selling them. You wouldn't want to weaken the strain with bad genetics, that happens far too much in the fish farms as it is, it's up to the hobbyists to keep various strains in good condition and genetically pure.
MM
2007-07-12 09:17:36 · answer #1 · answered by magicman116 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The more heavily you stock the tank the dirtier the fish make it and the faster it degrades. Sure, maybe you can stuff 50 fish into the 29 gallon, but question whether it's necessary to go overboard and how much work do you want to put into keeping these tanks clean.
At some point you're going to need to face the facts and think about culling, or getting a fry predator for the tank, or giving them away as feeder fish, or something - how many tanks are you going to set up as they keep multiplying and multiplying? Stores won't take them because of their unstoppable breeding power - any hack can breed them (no I'm not implying you're a hack).
2007-07-12 10:49:00 · answer #2 · answered by Ghapy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ive had up 45 fish bigger than guppies in my 29 gallon so i say you could have 50 in a 29 gallon and 80 in the 55 gallon
2007-07-12 10:10:12 · answer #3 · answered by ekelly66 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've always been told 1" of fish per 1 gal of fish aquarium, so for a 29 gallon aquarium, you can have 29 fish that are 1" each or 15 fish at 2" each .
2007-07-12 09:08:17 · answer #4 · answered by thedivineoomba 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The basic rule for freshwater fish is 1" per 1 gallon of water or for goldfish 1" per 2 gallons of water. It is a very generic rule ....but if you are ever in doubt it is better to understock than overstock the amount of fish in your aquarium.
2007-07-12 10:07:06 · answer #5 · answered by SquirrelPanic 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
most people recoment about one inch per gallon but i think you should just go by how comfortable your fish look in the aquarium or if they fight
2007-07-12 16:37:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋