*** Guppies?

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Are my guppies ***? I bought 2 male guppies to go in with my 4 females. Now all the females are VERY pregnant so I imagine that makes the boys a bit unnerved since the girls won't have anything to do with them ... BUT ... for the past 10-12 hours or so I've noticed them chasing eachother (not meanly) and circling eachother, rubbing up to eachother, swimming up and down from the bottom to the top of the tank. What's going on? Are they just biding their time with eachother until the females drop their babies? Or could they actually think eachother is a female and be trying to mate with eachother. Sometimes they take a little break from this behavior but I notice them doing it once or twice about every hour and it goes on for like 20 minutes.

Do I have confused guppies? :rolleyes:
 
Sometimes they will do that to eachother. They may also be fighting so it's always good to make sure thats not the case, they can kill eachother if they really want to. Or perhaps they are confused :)

Possibly they are competing also.
 
It's not bad to keep more than one male. In my 50G I have about 7 males, the bother eachother once in a while, but also don't seem to harm the others. Basically all you need to worry about is if they seem to be getting extremely stressed and/or are harming eachother.
 
mayreee said:
What kind of question is that. Just use common sense.
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Whoah, if you aren't going to offer help to the question, maybe you shouldn't post. What you said was not very helpful.
 
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FishKeeper-16 said:
Usually I think it is best to keep 3 females per male. :o
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3 females to 1 male is a good number. Male live bearers will try to mate with anything. I had a male molly that would try to mate with my male Dwarf Gourami and I had to get rid of him because he was stressing the Gourami out.
 
Thanks for the advice, I think I'll be adding 3 more girls then. Right now there are 3 girls and the 2 boys. That's probably the problem.

As for "mayreee" ... what bug do you have up your @$$? I was asking a question because I've never kept guppies before and am new to all their behavior. Sorry to have tried to LEARN something!
 
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