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Guppies or Platy's
I would like to start breeding Guppies or Platy's but do not know which produces faster and which produces more. I have an empty 30 Gallon that I am currently cycling and in a few days it will be time to add fish, I'm just not sure how many of each I could have in a 30 Gallon and again production rate. Someone Please Help.
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IT wont matter which you get. Get a few males and a bunch of females and you;ll have a ton of fry in a few months.
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I am feeding them to my Convict Cichlids so I will be needing a lot of fry.
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You could probably do both in the same tank if you wanted to. Toi be honest Convicts dont need the live food. Just let the convicts eat their own fry. They will produce way too many for you to ever sell.
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I can say from experience that guppies would be better. I've had 20+ fry per mature female, so if you have a 30g you could start out with 3 males and 6 females and you will have fry in a very short period of time!
@Heyguy: I thought that convicts protected their young, so wouldnt that entail that they dont eat their babies???
10 gallon: 1 betta, 5 neon tetras, 1 mystery snail
29 gallon: 1 gold & 1 opaline gauramis, 5 serpea tetras, 5 pristella tetras, 4 neon tetras, 3 cory cats, 1 ghost shrimp
75 gallon: 8 electric yellow labs, 7 cobalt blue zebras, 4 acei, 2 OB Peacocks, 1 rusty(?), 1 chinese algea eater, 1 albino bristle nose pleco
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They are very good parents. Once the pair gets ready to mate again. They will view the previous batch of juvies, as a threat to the new eggs. IME, it was the females that did most of the killing. There is a point where the young are left on their own and parental care ends.
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You can go with Guppies, platys, mollies, or swordtails and get pretty much the same exacty results with fry. All 4 are like rabbits.
55g: Metriaclima Lombardoi, Pseudotropheus Acei, Metriaclima Greshakei, Albino Metriaclima Greshakei, Labeotropheus Trewavasae Chilumba, and Labidochromis Caeruleus fry.
55g: Labidochromis Caeruleus Lions Cove, Labidochromis Caeruleus Ruarwe, OB Peacock, Astatotilapia Latisfasciata, Cynotilapia Sp. White Top Hara fry
29g: Lamprologus Brevis, Telmatochromis Vittatus, Neolamprologus brichardi, Aphyocharax anisitsi
20g: Lamprologus Brevis Fry, Neolamprologus Leleupi Fry
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I was going to let the Cons eat their old fry but the female started doing that last time an I had to remove her because my Male was going to kill her and then he ended up doing it anyways when she got reintroduced into the equation. So I think Im going to go with Guppies just because its cheaper in my area at the moment
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