Good ideas, Christine. Thanks!
I will think about what to do.
Connie
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From: Chris@Rott-n-kids.com
Date: 09/23/12 06:10:55
To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Platy and Guppy behavior....
Maybe an advert in your local shop? Def try the petshop you bought them
from - maybe they take fish back or will let you post an advert in their
shop. Online - Craigslist?
BUT, why rehome the Platy - you want peaceful fish and the Platy is one.
The Guppies seem, to me, to be the problem - and may harass other fish
you add to the tank later - so why not remove them?
I've been following this thread for a while and I'm also fairly new to
the group - I've been cycling a new tank (fishless) after getting back
into the hobby after many years. I seem to have acquired a snail with
the plants who has now had young ones (busy keeping the tank clean) and
have some Killifish fry that are 1 - 1.5 cm long and just beginning to
come out from hiding so I'm keen to learn about getting tankmates that
will be happy with each other.
Christine
(Scotland)
On 23/09/2012 07:04, Connie Watson wrote:
>
> How can I rehome the platy?? I don't know anyone else who keeps fish in my
> area.
> Connie
>
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> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Donna King
> Date: 09/22/12 21:34:50
> To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:tropicalfishclub%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [tropical fish club] Platy and Guppy behavior....
>
> You could rehome the platty.
>
> Donna
>
>
> >________________________________
> > From: Connie Watson <clw51@cox.net <mailto:clw51%40cox.net>>
> >To: Tropical Fish Club <tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:tropicalfishclub%40yahoogroups.com>>
> >Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 1:39 PM
> >Subject: 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-------Original Message-------
> >
> >From: Donna King
> >Date: 9/22/2012 11:55:39 AM
> >To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:tropicalfishclub%40yahoogroups.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 <mailto:clw51%40cox.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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