Can guppies breed through a divider?

[captmicha]

Can full grown guppies and endlers breed through a canvas mesh divider? The kind you find at the craft store by the yarn, I guess.

I was thinking of switching out my two 10 gallons for one 20 gallon with a DIY divider in the middle to keep the males and females from breeding. You know, males on one side and females on the other.

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[Glabe]

They make whoopy, so probably not... unless you believe the "I got preggo by sitting in a hot tub" story

but seriously, in our petco, they all live in the same system and share the same water, but they can't actually get to each other. We've had a couple births, but the females seem to have come to our store preggers. none of our ugly long-termers get pregnant

 

[A. Nonymous]

Not sure if guppies share the same ability as platies do to store sperm for later use or not. If they do, you'll end up with fry no matter what.

 

[SubRosa]

Considering how Guppies do it, theoretically they could make contact through a very thin divider, but in practice the way females generally try NOT to breed makes such an encounter extremely unlikely.

 

[captmicha]

The males and females have been separated for more than a year now so nobody's storing sperm this long. I'm glad this can work out! Thanks guys.