Need Guppy Advice

toomanycats · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 4:56 am Post subject: Need Guppy Advice

I'm trying to find out what the maximum safe number of guppies is for standard 10 gallon tanks. One of our four just had LOTS of babies in one of our hospital tanks, and I don't want to risk making the others unhealthy by overcrowding the tank when the babies get big enough to put them back in my main tank.

Thanks!

P.S. We have four tanks - a 35 gal hex, a standard 10 gal, and two 2.5 gals that we keep running in case anyone should get sick or knocked up. For someone who never used to like fish, I've gone and gotten addicted. Sad.

Obelix · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 5:14 am Post subject:

Its a stretch but the most 'd put in is a bakers dozen (13) , it may seem understocked but when their fullgrown the bioload should work out pretty well.

tina1 · Senior Member Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 651

If its just the guppies in the tank I think you could stretch the 1" per gallon "rule" quite a bit and as Obelix suggested keep around a dozen but max out at 15. All of one sex of course to prevent this from happening again. This should be fine if you keep up with your water changes and gravel vacuuming Smile

3_second_memory · Member Joined: 29 Apr 2004 Posts: 351 Location: England

just dont s**k guppy up the vac!

hehe.

id say stick with the 1" rule too.

amy. x

toomanycats · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 10:55 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the advice, folks!

Obelix · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject:

Anytime, feel free to PM me if you have any other guppy questions