Male guppies are annoying

[tennesseemom]

I have 7 females and 3 males in a 55 gallon. The longer I have these male guppies, the more annoying they seem to me. They just don't leave the females alone. They constantly are nipping at the females butts hoping a baby will pop out so they can eat it, or they are trying to mate. The 2 blue males at least take a break to eat, but this beautiful yellow & orange "sunset" male just doesn't rest. Anyone in Nashville want 3 free males?

 

[Radar]

LOL, You sound like me. I will not keep any live bearers(guppies,mollies,platies) for that reason. The constant obsession they have is just not peaceful at all to watch. If you can only get females they are so much more peaceful.

 

[jm1212]

guppies just want to breed.

 

[AnnetteG]

I just have males because they're beautiful but I don't want them to get all oversexed. LOL They school together and sometimes flare up at each other, but they're fine and peaceful overall.

 

[Hammy & Waf]

we had a fancy male guppy and our male platy that do that, but our feeder guppy male, he knocked up all 3 females, and now he leaves them alone.

 

[ILOVEBETTAS]

Hmm. I have 2 male, 3 female platies and they are so peaceful with each other. Never see them do that. they just follow eachother around in a line.

 

[Hammy & Waf]

you're lucky.

 

[Ourfirsttank]

We have that problem too but it is just one male that won't leave one of our females alone. He doens't seem to be interested in the other female and is constantly chasing the female with hte brightes tail around. The other he only bothers when she is about to birth her fry.

 

[Dily]

I have been raising guppies for years and this is just normal behavior for them. Unless your females are becoming overstressed this shouldn't be a problem. Any time the water temp goes up your females are giving off hormones. This keeps the males fired up. You will always have pregnant females unless you decide to separate the sexes. I would love to have the males but live in GA.

 

[khombre]

Maybe tweak the male:female ratio a bit. I usually do 1:5 on livebearers. But on some occasions these males seem to single out one female with the chasing.