New 29 gallon community tank

[Willdragonight64]

Hello I’m starting a new 29 gallon and I would like to make a community tank with guppies. But is there a schooling fish that will eat some of the fry because I don’t want to be over populated every week even if they only eat 1/15 of the fry would be fine with me. And where would be a good place to buy mixed types of fancy guppy I was looking at twin city’s guppies but they are like 60$ for 3 and the mixed 5 pack is out of stock.

 

[Sofiafish17]

Almost any fish will happily eat guppy fry, so you can just about pick whatever you want. Guppies will even eat their own babies too. Some people here on fishlore are selling guppies for cheap, and buying mixed mutt guppies instead of a certain strain will certainly be much cheaper. You could also check places like facebook marketplace, or sometimes people who keep guppies themselves will be willing to give you a couple for free because they reproduce so fast, so check with anyone you know who has fish too.

 

[Willdragonight64]

Almost any fish will happily eat guppy fry, so you can just about pick whatever you want. Guppies will even eat their own babies too. Some people here on fishlore are selling guppies for cheap, and buying mixed mutt guppies instead of a certain strain will certainly be much cheaper. You could also check places like facebook marketplace, or sometimes people who keep guppies themselves will be willing to give you a couple for free because they reproduce so fast, so check with anyone you know who has fish too.

Thanks I don’t know anyone that keeps fish around me I think I will look around for a starter set of guppy on line like a 5 pack then pick up the rest I need from my local store.

 

[kansas]

Some people sell them on this web page, Try posting your question here:
Buy, Sell, Trade, Free Forum

 

[Debbie1986]

If you were closer to me, I'd just give you some, lol.

I'd check with aquarium club in area. I think you can get them cheaper than $60.00 which is a high premium imo. Unless you strictly what a very specific breed.

Check out ebay. I purchased from 3 different sellers and all were excellent speciums for their type ( blue dragon, green dragon and black Moscow.) I got the blue dragons half off normal ( I think it was 19.99 , 2 female, 1 male ), the seller was a hobbyist just trying to get rid of excess guppies.

 

[ProudPapa]

Some people sell them on this web page, Try posting your question here:
Buy, Sell, Trade, Free Forum

Willdragonight64 is a new member, with only four posts, so won't have access to that section of the forum.

Hello I’m starting a new 29 gallon and I would like to make a community tank with guppies. But is there a schooling fish that will eat some of the fry because I don’t want to be over populated every week even if they only eat 1/15 of the fry would be fine with me. And where would be a good place to buy mixed types of fancy guppy I was looking at twin city’s guppies but they are like 60$ for 3 and the mixed 5 pack is out of stock.

Check Shop | Pwilly's Fish Emporium. Pwilly07 is a member here, and is a pleasure to do business with.

 

[emeraldking]

Be careful! Even though, there are many sales ads of live fish on Facebook, Facebook itself does forbid such posts. Officially, no sales posts of live animals are allowed on Facebook. This does include fish. And Facebook can shut down a group for that reason. I'm a mod and admin myself on a number of such groups on Facebook.

 

[HupGupp]

Join a local fish group or something else local and connect with other hobbists. Anyone who has guppies is usually happy to give some away. I've got 2 community tanks that breed freely and I can't keep up with requests for fish.