LOL, Bill, I guess this helps make this hobby interesting!
After I get the tank cycled my next questions are going to be about what
fish I can end up
with that live well together in a tank.
I love Kribs...would love a pair of them with some Angle fish.
Don't know if that is possible or not.
Years and years ago, before I knew anything about fishkeeping
I had a tank with 3 angle fish. Got them really small and they
survived and grew and grew! Loved them!
My perfect tank probably isn't possible. I would love
a school of Neons and couple Angle fish and a pair of Kribs.
Connie
-------Original Message-------
From: bill 1433
Date: 09/22/12 14:15:05
To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Platy and Guppy behavior....
Hi Connie,
Some fish are notorious for this, others are a bit more sneaky
about it. Now if you want to see a real "war" in the tank throw in
some Tiger Barbs! Or that poor innocent Platy? Go get yourself a handful
of them and then see what happens to that guppy! That's all part
of the fun of trying to put together a peacefull "community" tank.
Sometimes, its not as easy as to looks. Even those nice little Neeons
are not above some fin nipping from time to time.
bill in pa
--- On Sat, 9/22/12, Connie Watson <clw51@cox.net> wrote:
From: Connie Watson <clw51@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Platy and Guppy behavior....
To: "Tropical Fish Club" <tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Saturday, September 22, 2012, 2:39 PM
Thanks, Donna, as usual the pet store people didn't tell me about that when
I bought the first 5 male guppies to start cycling the tank. They told me
male guppies would be fine. Then after I had several males I asked about
adding females to the mix. They warned me I needed at least 2 females for
every single male guppy I had or the males would pester the females to death
Well that meant way too many females. No one told me you shouldn't keep
male guppies without any female guppies. : (
Well, I keep learning.... that is a good thing. I do feel sorry for the
platy though.
Connie
-------Original Message-------
From: Donna King
Date: 9/22/2012 11:55:39 AM
To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Platy and Guppy behavior....
I'm not surprised, male guppy's have only one thing on their minds. I have
never seen anyone keep them with out females in a mixed tank. I would think
frustration would make them nip fins.
Donna
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> [tropical fish club] Platy and Guppy behavior....
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>OK, I have a Mickey Mouse platy (I think it is a female) and one of my male
>guppies is constantly "chasing" this platy.
>Sometimes I think the way the guppy behaves is some sort of mating "dance".
>LOL!
>
>Is it possible that this guppy is confused?? All if have in this tank is
the
>one platy and 2 Cory catfish, the 4 neons and down to 3 male guppies. But
>this particular male guppy (a fancy yellow tail) has always "pestered" the
>platy.
>
>When I had 2 other platys in the tank the other male guppies kept nipping
at
>them. I think these other 2 platys were pestered to death.
>
>This one guppy now is not nipping this last platy, but rather swims next to
>or behind the platy all the time. Sometimes if the platy stops the guppy
>does a shiver of his tail that is not normal swimming movement. This guppy
>has been with this platy for many days....more so as the other male guppies
>died. Now sometimes the platy hides, I think to get a break from the guppy.
>
>Anyone heard of this type of behavior with a male guppy and a female
platy??
>It is the oddest thing.....only with these two fish.
>Thanks,
>Connie
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