While this is a bigger investment up front, it will provide a great environment for your fish. Luckily, guppies are fine with the oxygen from the surface and with temperatures in the 70s, so you won't need many additional items. Guppies are a freshwater fish, but you may not be able to use water straight from the tap.
Chlorine is a problem for fish, so you need to use dechlorinated water. You could buy water for the tank, or you could use tap water and leave it in an uncovered container for 24 hours.
This lets the chlorine evaporate. Room temperature water works well for guppies. Guppies are a social fish, so it is a good idea to get several. Two females and one male is a great place to begin.
A ratio of two females to one male is good balance for your tank. I leave the clear bag in the water long after theyre done adjusting so they can get all aggression out before i release the fish and put them together. You never want to danger your fish so keep in mind if they still go at the bag between them for more than 15 minuets seperate them because it causes unnecessary stress to the fish.
It creates a beautiful tank when you keep bettas in a community tank i would recomend it if they can live together with no fin nipping. Almost always. That said, we added two female bettas to a 20 gallon high that only had three guppies in it.
One betta was very chill, while the other one chased the guppies. Still, this is usually considered a safe combination. Perhaps with more guppies, we will not have that problem.
I have a few questions. I am staring a Guppy tank as a gift for my fiance and I would like to have another breed of fish in addition to my guppies. What fish are the best tank mates for them??
I have been looking around and I am just not getting consistent answers. This text was pretty informational and I was wondering if you could maybe help me out a bit?? Firstly I hope your fiance have fish-keeping experience and love fishes.
With regards to tank mates for guppies, you could consider neon tetras, swordtail or even mollies. Stay away from Chinese algae eaters as they can be aggressive, they get too large for most beginner aquariums and they eat less algae as they grow. Either a male or female Betta not both would be a good addition.
Occasionally, you might have a guppy who likes to nip at any long tails, whatever species they are. On the other hand, I have never had a Betta that was aggressive towards any other species. Small tetras like neons or cardinals are also a good choice.
Larger tetras, rams and barbs can all be biters. Lastly, the best way to keep a peaceful tank other than choosing the right fish is to not put too many fish in it. Besides the constant battles to be waged to keep the water quality safe, an overstocked aquarium causes stressed fish and stressed fish easily become either aggressors or victims. Enjoy the guppies. Many of those with the wide tails have the ability to swim backwards, sometimes for inches,. I have a beta fish in the tank, too, but he really is not mean.
Even then, observe your tank and ensure everyone is living happily. I have had my tank set up for about 1 month now and my Guppies used to swim all around the top, middle and bottom of the tank but the last couple of days my Guppies are staying near the top of the tank way more than they use to. Is there a reason for this that I am unaware of? We had them in a gallon tank, then just recently moved them to a 2 gallon tank.
I am also wondering about a similar situation. My male is gone no body to be found but we have babies! Is he hiding???? Look at the suggested guidelines per guppy to amount of water. With moving your fish and the amount of space, I would bet lack of space and oxygen was your problem.
Moving fish can be very stressful on them. Then not having enough space would do the same. It is not just that, if the water has not been treated then the temperature alone could cause the fish undue stress.
You do not want to breathe toxic air and your guppies do not want toxic water. For the rest of this article, I will discuss different things you should consider regarding your guppies living in tap water or not. We all live in different regions of the world and our tap water will vary in how it was treated for safe human consumption.
Some regions add fluoride, and some do not. The mineral content will differ as well. I know this from experience. A few years ago, I moved from a major city to a small town 10 miles away and the water being supplied to my region comes from a different source than the municipality I moved from. My water is now supplied by an aquifer and is high in mineral count. The levels are so high in fact that I have had to replace a kitchen faucet and gaskets in my toilet tanks because of the deposit build up.
That reminds me, I also had to replace a shower faucet as well this past winter, which I chalk up to the water.
The reason I am telling you these personal things is to stress my point that water provided to you and me can are most likely quite different.
This means that one water source in a specific area may support guppy health whereas another might not. It all boils down to the mineral composition of the water. If we think about tap water that has been treated by a water plant, we know there has most likely been chemicals used.
Residue of this process might still flow in our tap water. Here is the situation where I think that guppies or other tropical fish could have a higher success rate of surviving tap water. You should use at minimum a water conditioner like this one. However, if you chose not to and pour tap water directly into your fish tank, I think a good majority of fish will still survive.
You do increase the chance of the fish going into shock though and eventually getting sick and dying. I cannot say for certain that I did not make this mistake years ago when I was first starting out as an aquarium hobbyist because I know I probably did.
I also remember losing more fish more often back then. After all this talk about how tap water could shock and kill your guppies, you must think tap water is the worst ever, but its not. It can cause stress and problems right out of the tap.
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