Breeding Platys and guppies How many tanks do I need?

[Dwarf Puffers]

Really, I'd say this is a bad idea unless they are/can be used as feeders. Just a forewarning, if you get attached to fish, and/or have a tough time killing/feeding them to larger fish, you should probably try this at a smaller rate. Unless there's a booming guppy/platy buisness around you, which I cannot imagine, but is entirely possible. Anyways, here's what I would do-

Few-tanks sceme:

30-40g platy/fry tank

20-30g guppy/fry tank

Doesn't-matter-much scheme:

10g breeder guppies

15g breeder platies

15g guppy fry (potential sex dividers**)

20g platy fry (potential sex dividers)

Out-of-control-madness scheme:

10g breeder guppies

15g breeder platies

20g female guppy fry, divided strain-wise

25-30g female platy fry, divided strain-wise

20g male guppy fry, devided strain-wise

30g+ male platy fry, devided strain-wise


You could sub all of the 20's and 30's and such in plan #3 for a large (55-75 gallon) tank or a huge rubbermaid of some sort. Good luck.

**As in males on one side, females on the other.

 

[Mgamer20o0]

what are you going to do with the fry? i started with 8 platy and have sold gave away 50-60 the last couple months and i still have a bunch in my 85. it just depends are you going to keep all the fry... think about 100 gal tanks lol if your breeding them for feeders then 20 gal tanks would work. if its breeding just to breed i would leave the fry with the parents so at least they pick some off.

 

[Sweetheart]

I am planning on selling them. And yes I'm going to let the mother pick some off.

 

[SchizotypalVamp]

Please be aware that the platies/mollies/guppies etc that are sold in the pet trade reproduce so rapidly they are often given away for free and sell wholesale for a very low price.

 

[Mgamer20o0]

you will be lucky if you can sell them. might want to find a fish more people want.

 

[Rbishop]

Most areas, will give you a thank you, when they take them off your hands.

 

[cheekysbabe]

My sister and I have Guppies and my sister also has a Mollie and other fish.

Don't get a black guppy as it will always have black babies (as i have found out, but they are still beautiful). Go for different colours. A blue, yellow, green, pink, yellow, etc.

I dont know much about tanks. But guppies grow a lot faster when keep with others. My sister and I have tryed this. hers where two months young when i placed some of mine in one of her tanks, hers where about or bigger than mine.

Jade