I just added a "male" (said the lady at the lfs) guppy to my 10 gal tank so my solo "male" (said the girl at PetSmart) will have a friend. (My guppy had a friend that died a couple of weeks ago)
The tank went through a mini cycle but is in good shape now, nitrites 0, ammonia 0, nitrates 20, ph 6.8, temp 78.
I got this "male" from the lfs, but can someone tell me if this is normal behavior. After acclimating him, floating the bag to bring up temp to match the tank, and adding some tank water, I netted him and put him in the tank. (took care not to let the water from the lfs get in my tank)
At first my guppy was pressed against the bag as it floated in the tank, as if eager for his new friend to join him, but after a few minutes he swam away and hovered near the bottom of the tank.
When the new guppy was released it took a while for them to come together, they circled each other, hovered near the surface side by side for a while, and then then my guppy seemed to make jabs at the new one.
It didn't seem to be all that friendly a meeting to me.
The new one has his tail as big as he can make it, (its bigger than my guppie's fin, and it is moving its tail fin in a sort of shimmy fashion. The cirled each other, mine making short quick jabs at the other one's side. The just seemed to face off with each other.
Now mine is in the corner of the tank at the surface with his (her?) nose pressed into the corner. I have a small cutting of anarchis attached to the tank wall there and the guppy is just on top of it.
Oh uh, now the new guppy is hovering just above mine, it's back section (underside) near the base of its tail is across the dorsal back end of my guppy near the base of its tail. They both seem sort of transfixed.
Could it be that I have a female and have just added a male to my tank, and love is in the air.... I mean in the water?
Also, there are some things floating in the water beside them; looks like tiny specks in a filmy strand, not dense clusters but scattered specks along single strands.
When I first saw that I wondered if my mystery snail, who has been hanging out just below the surface on the submersable heater, might be having babies.
But, now I'm wondering if my guppy could be a female and just lay some eggs.
Uh oh, now there are more little specks in filmy clumps, and you'd think my guppy was deceased, it's so still. The new guppy is still hovering over it, the underside of the back end resting on top of my guppie's back near the base of it's tail.
Geeze, I didn't want to have babies.... tell me this is not what I think it is......
The tank went through a mini cycle but is in good shape now, nitrites 0, ammonia 0, nitrates 20, ph 6.8, temp 78.
I got this "male" from the lfs, but can someone tell me if this is normal behavior. After acclimating him, floating the bag to bring up temp to match the tank, and adding some tank water, I netted him and put him in the tank. (took care not to let the water from the lfs get in my tank)
At first my guppy was pressed against the bag as it floated in the tank, as if eager for his new friend to join him, but after a few minutes he swam away and hovered near the bottom of the tank.
When the new guppy was released it took a while for them to come together, they circled each other, hovered near the surface side by side for a while, and then then my guppy seemed to make jabs at the new one.
It didn't seem to be all that friendly a meeting to me.
The new one has his tail as big as he can make it, (its bigger than my guppie's fin, and it is moving its tail fin in a sort of shimmy fashion. The cirled each other, mine making short quick jabs at the other one's side. The just seemed to face off with each other.
Now mine is in the corner of the tank at the surface with his (her?) nose pressed into the corner. I have a small cutting of anarchis attached to the tank wall there and the guppy is just on top of it.
Oh uh, now the new guppy is hovering just above mine, it's back section (underside) near the base of its tail is across the dorsal back end of my guppy near the base of its tail. They both seem sort of transfixed.
Could it be that I have a female and have just added a male to my tank, and love is in the air.... I mean in the water?
Also, there are some things floating in the water beside them; looks like tiny specks in a filmy strand, not dense clusters but scattered specks along single strands.
When I first saw that I wondered if my mystery snail, who has been hanging out just below the surface on the submersable heater, might be having babies.
But, now I'm wondering if my guppy could be a female and just lay some eggs.
Uh oh, now there are more little specks in filmy clumps, and you'd think my guppy was deceased, it's so still. The new guppy is still hovering over it, the underside of the back end resting on top of my guppie's back near the base of it's tail.
Geeze, I didn't want to have babies.... tell me this is not what I think it is......