krnballa

ok. i jus got some new baby guppies and platy frys. i was wondering if flake foods would be good enough to feed them, or should i buy some babyy brine shrimp. Also, i am wondering if it would be ok to have like 25 fry in a 10 gallon tank with 9 other fishes. 5 guppies, 3 red platys, and 1 cory cat. is that too many fish in one tank? Also, is it recomended that i buy the thing that sucks up gravel and other leftover food stuff? sorry bout all these questions but ur help will be deeply appreciated. thanks so much. this is the place i really rely on cuz evyreone is so nice.

Nicolas Rodriguez

well, where to start, first of all the gravel vaccum is highly reccomended so you can clean the tank weekly, your pushing it a bit with the amount of fish you have in there, i believe the 5 guppies alone are putting you at the limit, as for the fry id start with brine shrimp and then go to finley crushed flake food, that is of course if they survive, because im not sure if you know but guppies tend to eat their babies, to wrap it up you should really consider trying to get a bigger tank for those fish, but if you stay on top of water changes you should be ok.

fishrule101

The fry should eat the flakes but try to give them a varitly of choises. Also those fish in a ten would be way over crowded.

krnballa

hahaha well the frys r in a breeders nest so they wont die. so if i do lots of water changes itll be fine?

Nicolas Rodriguez

in all honestly im not fully sure, i know your defidently over stocked and im not sure if water changes would do the trick if i had to guess id say try to do two 20-30% a week