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

Thanks for these links, Bill, I appreciate it!
Connie

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From: bill 1433
Date: 09/23/12 07:49:57
To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Platy and Guppy behavior....

Hi Connie,

Thinking about your "Research" and maybe bouncing all over the Internet
to find the information that you want I just thought these might
help. I have never run across any fish that at least one of them didn't
cover!

http://www.mongabay.com/search.htm

http://www.theaquariumwiki.com/Main_Page

Like I said just about everything you can think of.

bill in pa

--- On Sun, 9/23/12, 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: Sunday, September 23, 2012, 2:03 AM
> Good ideas....I will have to do some
> research!
> Of course you are right, I just never thought of it in that
> order before.
> Thanks,
> Connie
>
>
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: bill 1433
> Date: 09/22/12 15:28:39
> To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Platy and Guppy
> behavior....
>
> Connie maybe I can offer a bit of advice here?
>
> You are on the right track BUT what you should do, and what
> is
> most recommend is NOT to shop by type of fish at all.
> What you need to
> do is shop by your water parameters from your source
> first. That way you
> stay out of trouble.
>
> Regardless of the type of fish, you first want to know the
> basic, "Will it
> live in my water"? This will encompass all that Ray
> has told you about for
> water parameters.
> Some fish are very prone to these and the least little
> amount of
> anything out of the ordinary and you have dead animals on
> your hands. A
> good example? Mikrogeophagus Ramirez , the German Blue
> Ram. All you have to
> do is miss a scheduled water change or not have the proper
> tank temperature
> and they will go to the Great Above at the blink of an
> eye.
>
> After you list what will live in your water the next part
> is a bit harder,
> you have to figure out what can live or co-exist with
> what.
>
> There are many factors governing this from the specie of
> the fish to the
> size tank your going to be working with. Always
> remember, you don't really
> want to know what size the fish is now, you want to know
> what size the fish
> will be next month or next year.
>
> 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, 4:55 PM
>
>
> 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
>
>
> >________________________________
> > From: Connie Watson <clw51@cox.net>
> > [tropical fish club] Platy and Guppy behavior....
> >
> >
> >
> >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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