Live plants for guppy breeding?

Hello, I have a 20 gallon tank with 2 male guppies, 4 female guppies, and 2 bronze Cory catfish, I was wondering if it would be good for the guppies to have live plants in there tank when the start giving birth? I recently read on the website https://guppyaquarium.com that hornwart is good for this. Do you fellow fish lovers agree? If not can you please recommend me to other good plants for guppy breeding. Also I was thinking about getting some shrimp for the tank to eat alge, more specifically the Cerry Red Shrimp, is that ok for my current tank setup? Thank you for helping, I'm pretty new to fish breeding so I could use some help. THANK YOU

 

You have some stocking issues, if you'd like to discuss them Cories need to be in groups of 6+, and this tank isn't big enough for 6 bronze cories. Plus a lot of bioload space will be taken up by the guppy babies. I'd rehome the cories.

Do you have another tank for the fry, or do you have a plan for them? 4 breeding females will quickly overstock the tank with fry.

Hornwort is good, as is guppy grass (also called najas grass I think).

 

Yes I have many 10 gallon tanks in my garage, but on the copies, I have a 55 gallon tank with 1 male and 2 female electric yellow cichlids would cories go with them?

 

Stem plants that are thick and bushy are good. They offer hiding places for fry. Floating plants can also give some surface cover, as the newborn fry tend to head for the surface.

I've heard you can also build a little tower out of marbles. The fry are supposedly able to fit into the crevices, where the adults can't reach them. I've never tried this myself, but you could give it a go.

Any shrimp would be fine, although amanos would do a better job at eating algae. If it's a major algae problem, however, you'll need to fix out the imbalance of light and nutrients in your tank to effectively solve the problem.

If you have spare 10 gallon tanks, you could use them as fry tanks and not have to worry about them getting eaten in the main tank.

 

It is not a major problem, just a bit of alge hear and there, and yes I have a spare tank for the fry thank you

 

Yes I have many 10 gallon tanks in my garage, but on the copies, I have a 55 gallon tank with 1 male and 2 female electric yellow cichlids would cories go with them?

You'll soon have lots of fry to fill all those 10 gals! Will an LFS near you take them from you when you start filling up? Livebearers reproduce exponentially, as each of the female babies will breed and reproduce as soon as they're old enough.

No, don't add any cories to the 55 gal. Rift lake African cichlids should only be mixed with fish from the same lake. So rehome the cories, or you could always get a larger tank for them

 

Thanks for the help. I also have a 30 gal and another 55 gal, I was thinking of doing a cory themed tank, any suggestions on that?

 

Thanks for the help. I also have a 30 gal and another 55 gal, I was thinking of doing a cory themed tank, any suggestions on that?

A large school of cories would be great in the 55 gal, and a medium sized school would fit in the 30 gal. I would only do one species of cory in each tank, as cories need to be in groups of 6+ of their species and would prefer a larger school to a bare minimum one.