What fish can i put with guppies and compliments them.?

Question

I have a orange male guppy and 2 female guppies. I want to get a inexpensive fish that will compliment them, make my tank look better and won't harm them (of course!!). I keep the taem in between 70 and 80 degrees (farenheight). It's a ten gallon cause I have them in my room. I want a pretty one that can eat fish food and I am thinking about getting cherry shrimp. Wow. I never looked at my wants like this. I'm gonna need a bigger tank and a job.

Please be nice guys I'm only 10!!!

Answer 1

A few cherry shrimp would look great in that tank I think. If you want to stay with the reds and orange kind of colors, you could add a few glowlight tetras or even lemon tetras, which have a nice light yellow color. To go away from those and add other colors as well, you might consider checkerboard barbs, penguin tetras, neons which have both a red and blue color, or maybe some head and tail light tetras. A group of 5-6 of any of those fish would work well in your tank with the guppies and shrimp.

MM

Answer 2

how big is your tank? i think a few guppies with a school of white mountain minnows is a great easy tank. if you want a bigger fish maybe platies or swordtails. shrimp are great for an aquarium -- good choice. in small aquariums they tend to disappear (one dies and everyone else has shrimp for dinner) -- you might want to start with ghost shrimp -- they are really cheap -- you just have to replenish the stock regularly.

if you want to color compliment you fish go with blue. its a whole science called color theory. colors that contrast make each other stand out. there aren't many blue fish though -- blue platies, dwarf gouramis -- maybe a blue betta. people say don't put guppies with bettas but it has worked fine for me.

aquarium wants always just get bigger -- thats why grown ups often have huge tanks. you could always try to talk the parents into just getting something big now -- because you are going to be begging them for bigger in the future.

Answer 3

Hey there!

I think you could buy pretty much ANY fish, and they wont upstage your guppies. I have fish in my tank worth almost 100 bucks, and people who see it just go, oo, whats the fish with the firey tail (pointing at the guppies).

If you want somthing cheap, go with zebra danios, or minnows. Glowlight tetras are cheap too. Neons or cardinal tetras can work well.

More importantly, dont go with Tiger Barbs or any other aggressive or nipping fish. They will bite the long tails of your guppies. :(

Answer 4

Any variety of community tropical freshwater fish will get along with your guppies. At any given time in my tank Ive kept guppies; dalmatian, black, and silver mollies; different colors of platies; most of the smaller varieties of tetras-neons, serpae, buenos aires; harlequin rasporas are neat too. All of these fish usually cost under $4 a piece. Good luck!

Answer 5

hi how are you well you can put cherry barb you can put any tetra i say neon or glowlight (the smaller ones)i do not now much about the shrimp

Answer 6

more guppies of different colour