Guppies in 29 Gallon?

Question

Hi,
I have a 29 gallon that I posted on criagslist.com that I was looking for some community fish for it. I have got 2 responses for guppies, though the guppies are too young to identify the sex yet they said. So my question is how many guppies can I put in there? It has 55 gallon filtration and we would like to have a few other fish with them, like 4 panda cories and a bristlenose pleco or 3 otocinclus. The tank has been running for over a year, we recently rehomed some goldfish that were in it. To add on to my question, should I only get males or can I do a mixture? I don't want to overpopulate it. Also, how old do guppies need to be before you can sex them?
Thanks!!! :)

By the way, the tank has a heater and the water stays around 78F.

If I get both males and females were the tank over populate? Also, I was thinking of instead of the pleco and the ottos get 2 female balloon sailfin mollies.

Answer 1

You are completely right blue, if you get several males and females, eventually some of the fry will live and sooner or later youwill have tons of guppies in the tank unless of course you have no hiding places and plenty of adult fish in the tank, then you may not have that problem. If you don;t want fry the best choice is all males, no chance at all of any fry that way. Usually you can sex guppies by the time they are 10-12 weeks old, but it can take a little longer to be positive of the sex. You can usually tell them apart a week or two before they can actually breed, so if you want a batch of young very carefully, you can remove the one's that look like males asap and not have fry in the tank. Then once they are older, swap the males hback to the tank after removing the females.

As for how many in the tank, 25-30 easily.
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Answer 2

i admire the guideline of thumb 1inch Fish according to gallon basically guppies i could say approximately 40 4 I even have averaged out an grownup guppy a million.25 Inches then divided that with the help of 50 5 and that's 40 4 you ought to bypass greater with good filtration/cutting-edge i could additionally positioned a croy or 3 in and a three Plecos I omit reas you basically have a 29 My undesirable 23.2 fish.. O does not positioned better than 15 in a million Croy and 2 small plecos

Answer 3

The general rule is 1inch of fish per gallon. however I find that with my tank (that is the same setup) i have live plants and it seems to be very well oxygenated. I found that 1 male to 3-4 females is a good mix, if you want them to breed. I normally get females that look a little prego to start out with cuz im impatent. I really suggest a good breeding mix cuz its alot cheeper than buying the fish and its easy to do.

Answer 4

good choice of fish first of all. the pleco that you want is great but if you want you can have 2 because those ones dont get too big. you can probably get like 10 guppies 5 male and 5 female and they will get along fine. normaly male guppies look more colorful and have a bigger tail so that females are attracted to them. good luck w/ your tank :)