Fish: Re: [tropical fish club] Platy and Guppy behavior....

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

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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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> From: Connie Watson <clw51@cox.net>
> [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!
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>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.
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>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.
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>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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