zpecialt

Planning to breed guppies in a 10 gallon tank... what would be a good number of males vs females to start with?

COBettaCouple

you'll want 1 male and at least 2 females, but I'd recommend at least 3 to keep the male from being too harassing when the females are full of fry. Plan on a tank larger than the adults' tank for the fry and plan on dividing it when they start getting old enough to determine gender so that you can move the males away from the females.

Austin {Aquarist}

I agree with betta couple a good ratio of males to females is 1 to 3

Ussually if there are more than one male to one female the male(s) will harass the female trying to mate with her

swords3711

yep exactly right

zpecialt

Thank you all.

Chief_waterchanger

I agree with them about the 1:2-3, but from a breeding stand point if you have the breeding guppies in a 10g and have a seperate tank for the fry you could do 1:4 or 1:5 male to female ratio. The more females you have the more fry you are going to get.

Make sure to either pull the fry or have dense, heavy, floating, midlevel, and bottom plants. In my experience the fry tend to stay near the bottom of the tank after they are a couple of days old, but the first day or two they try to hide as near the surface as they can, but your guppies may be different.

Good luck.

betta247

Well if you want her to get pregnant allot then put a couple guppies in the tank with her then she will get chased and pregnant. In about a month or so then she will give birth.