Unwanted female endler

Pho
  • #1
A few weeks back I bought some Endlers from my lfs and I have a male only tank but when I was acclimating the new boys I realised that there was a fry in the bag so it's been living with the juveniles and one adult male for about a month or so and I've been able to gender it as a female but the issue is that firstly my tank is too small for breeding but also the one young female is in a tank with 5 males.
I can probably ask a friend of mine if I can take her 70+L off of her to breed but I know that I'd have to buy more females for the gene pool so I'm debating for when she's a bit bigger selling her off as soon as I can.
Im just wondering what you think about this situation because where I live it's nearly impossble to find a female endler because they're almost always female guppies and if she has nice genes I'd want to breed her with my black flame male.
 
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kattiq
  • #2
Well with 1 female you won't be having a ton of fry, plus they will probably eat most of them. The only thing is she will get stressed out probably because the males will chase her a lot. You could always see if your LFS would take her back?
What size tank is it? You could always get another small tank and just have her in there and then put your black flame male in there if you wanted to get babies? They have very low bio-load so I wouldn't worry about swimming in tons of fry especially with only 1 female. I have 6 female guppies and I think I might have had 12 fry so far in the past few months but only have 4 alive at the moment. But I also have other fish in the tank too.
 
Pho
  • Thread Starter
  • #3
Well with 1 female you won't be having a ton of fry, plus they will probably eat most of them. The only thing is she will get stressed out probably because the males will chase her a lot. You could always see if your LFS would take her back?
What size tank is it? You could always get another small tank and just have her in there and then put your black flame male in there if you wanted to get babies? They have very low bio-load so I wouldn't worry about swimming in tons of fry especially with only 1 female. I have 6 female guppies and I think I might have had 12 fry so far in the past few months but only have 4 alive at the moment. But I also have other fish in the tank too.
It's a 7 gallon and I have a 20 gallon I can take from a friend so I think I'll breed them
 
kattiq
  • #4
It's a 7 gallon and I have a 20 gallon I can take from a friend so I think I'll breed them
I see, yah then do the 20g. Just keep an eye on the female- if she is hiding a lot and not eating I would try to get some other females or something to offset the males chasing the one around to breed. I have a always found endlers to be a bit more aggressive.
 
Pho
  • Thread Starter
  • #5
I see, yah then do the 20g. Just keep an eye on the female- if she is hiding a lot and not eating I would try to get some other females or something to offset the males chasing the one around to breed. I have a always found endlers to be a bit more aggressive.
Yeah, 2 of my juvenile boys are huge too. If she goes down hill I'll get her some friends.
 
kattiq
  • #6
Yes ideal ratio is typically 2-3F per male but I know sometimes that is hard and you don't want all those babies. So also just making sure there are a lot of hiding spots and plants will help.
 
emeraldking
  • #7
Well firstly, if they´re endlers, they won´t eat their fry. Endlers tend to have less fry of each batch in comparison to most guppies.
Endlers don´t really have to be kept at a ratio that include more females than males.
Hybrid strains however can have endler behavior or guppy behavior. Depends what influence is the strongest. The tuxedo endler (commercially known as black flame) is already a hybrid strain itself.
 

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