Guppy housing question!

[sfeath]

My roommate has a female guppy that is pretty pregnant, and her heater broke in a recent move. I have a heavily planted 20G with just some microrasboras and a few cherry shrimp! I know the guppy might harass the shrimp some, but she was already living with ghost shrimp and didn't mess with them at all. Would the female guppy try to eat the microrasboras? They are all pretty much full grown!

 

[kansas]

do you want guppy fry in this tank? might be hard to remove from a heavily planted tank.

 

[Hugooo]

It shouldn't really be a problem. As long as there are plenty of hiding spots, they should be good. Unless they can literally fit in her mouth, I wouldn't worry about it. Just out of curiosity, add some pics! I would love to see them!

 

[david1978]

Guppies don't really need a heater roon temp (around 70) is fine for them.

 

[Hugooo]

Guppies don't really need a heater roon temp (around 70) is fine for them.

Agreed. I keep mine in 70 degrees F.

 

[emilyladwig]

A good rule with fish that I learned (through some painful mistakes) is that you should never put fish with other fish if that other fish can fit in their mouth. I realize this is worded super confusing, so I'll give you an example. Say someone has a single large common goldfish that is insanely large, like 10-12 inches long. Assuming the fish is well taken care of and all that (proper tank, filtration, etc.) it's a big tank that looks empty. And we all know what happens to tanks that look empty. The fishkeeper starts thinking about what fish could go well in the tank and decides that white cloud minnows would be a good idea. They get the minnows and put them in the tank. A couple of days later, they notice a couple of fish are missing, and a couple of days after that they're all gone. How did they disappear? Goldfish are not carnivores, so it wouldn't go after them, and everything was right with the tank. Goldfish (and any fish that are extremely large in size compared to the other fish) can sometimes swallow other small fish on accident. However, in this case, I don't think it would be an issue to keep the guppy with the smaller fish unless the guppy could fit the fish in their mouth, then it's probably best not to.

 

[sfeath]

Guppies don't really need a heater roon temp (around 70) is fine for them.

thanks the apartment is around 65 for some reason and the heater refuses to cooperate in their room so,,, better safe than sorry!

 

[sfeath]

It shouldn't really be a problem. As long as there are plenty of hiding spots, they should be good. Unless they can literally fit in her mouth, I wouldn't worry about it. Just out of curiosity, add some pics! I would love to see them!

will do! just gotta finish the water change first

 

[david1978]

Even 65 is fine. People keep them outside. Even when I was breeding them I never heated the tanks. I had 12 tanks of them so it was a big savings.

 

[sfeath]

Even 65 is fine. People keep them outside. Even when I was breeding them I never heated the tanks. I had 12 tanks of them so it was a big savings.

oh really? I didnt realize that! my LFS keeps their livebearers all heated so that's just what I was doing as well!

 

[Yale Kim]

guppies need heaters, they are tropical fish and will probably get stressed if the water is 65 degrees. You should keep guppies at around 75 to 78 degrees

 

[david1978]

The temperate range for guppies is like 50 to 80.

 

[Yale Kim]

50 degrees is way too cold for guppies

 

[Hugooo]

50 degrees is way too cold for guppies

I think he was joking. 60 degrees is the lowest without them going into shock. I think.