Java Fern/Java Moss question
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That's the exact reason I swore I'd never get guppies again. Although at the fish store with the wife I noticed she was eyeing the guppies.
Made me wonder if I should perhaps reconsider them- be great if she likes the aquarium- can only help if I get her "into fish"... she used to keep some too.
Still... guppies and their never ending stream of fry! *shudder*
Back on topic- java fern and java moss are two of the easiest plants to grow... I'm a plant novice and both are doing fantastic with me. Almost immediately baby java fernlets started growing on the leaves of the originals. Moss isn't duplicating fast- but it's doing well and nice and green.
Bettas won't eat them either so you're safe with that.
okay i can help you with guppies... lol if you want guppies but not all the fry baby girls or males dont buy both thats how they will have baby of course you already know that.. but yeah.. so java moss and fern is okay and bettas love them.. aparently is what you guys have told me
I've tried that... got all male guppies once- but one turned out to be a female after all! (they're supposed to be easy to sex- but both the store who had them segregated and me looking at them in the store missed that... it definately looked like a female once pregnant- don't know how I missed it- had the female ventral fin).
Got all female guppies once- but one turned out to be already pregnant.
Got all female swordtails once- and still one got pregnant somehow months later. (either stored sperm- or one of the females was really a male- although it didn't look that way to me... none had the obvious male gonopodium or whatever it's called).
Because livebearers are so easy to sex- it's easy to get over-confident you sexed them correctly and end up with fry.
Also- getting all male guppies tends to bring out the worst of their behaviour and they can torment other fish- so it's not ideal to have all males in a community tank. With the females- they can store sperm for some time so if they've ever been with a male you're screwed. (and *ahem* so are they apparently)
