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With your guppies you only need to buy a few that you like because if you have males and females you will end up with fry then your not spending as much. I started with 4 in december and have probably 15-20 adults now and about 40 fry. I have given about 30 fry away. I started with 3 pregnant females of assorted colors and 1 male snakeskin cobra. The fry do a good job of raising themselves in a community tank.
FYI, livebearers means they give birth to live babies (fry) and not eggs that hatch. You will want to have a ratio of 2 females for every male with most livebearers. If you have more males than females they will chase them around relentlessly and cause a great deal of stress for the females. Periodically I seperate my males and females to give everyone a break.
yeah its up to you to choose, research on there growth size as they grow and make sure they are compatiable with other fish you get!Ask your local fish store for more assiasnt!
One thing to mention is that alot of times any of your livebearing fish are already pregnant when you purchase them. Yes you can end up having several broods from a single female without a male present. I had a molly a few years back that ended up having 100-200 babies without a male. Needless to say I had way too many babies and ended up giving them away.
Thanks. I really appreciate all this info. I never thought of finding a forum about fish. I wish I had thought about it a few years ago. Maybe I would have had my big tank already going. Lol. 
So how can you tell a male from a female? I'm interested in getting Sunrise Guppy, and Blue Neon Guppy. I think both of those are pretty.
Will Female Betta get along with other fish?
Thankyou for answering all my questions!
Amy
So how can you tell a male from a female? I'm interested in getting Sunrise Guppy, and Blue Neon Guppy. I think both of those are pretty.
Will Female Betta get along with other fish?
Thankyou for answering all my questions!
Amy
So how can you tell a male from a female? I'm interested in getting Sunrise Guppy, and Blue Neon Guppy. I think both of those are pretty.
The male guppies are much more colorful and have fancier tails. Your fish store may have males and females in separate tanks already. Mine keeps the males and females separate.
So how can you tell a male from a female? I'm interested in getting Sunrise Guppy, and Blue Neon Guppy. I think both of those are pretty.
Amy
Males have willies, just like in humans (although it's called a gonopodium and is a modified fin). That's just livebearers though; most fish lay eggs and do not employ any form of internal fertilisation and so have unmodified fins in both sexes,
Any named variety of guppy will be a male. The females are considerably larger and much duller in colour and finnage. A "dull, uninsteresting fattish tiddler" is a description which sticks in my mind for a female guppy.
