guppies

[scorpn]

how can you tell when your guppy is about ready to burst babies? she is sitting up in the corner of my tank just minding her own business. she is eating but very little. all other fish are eating and seem very healthy. also how many fish can i have in a 100 gallon corner tank? how do you when enough is enough?

[squirt_12]

ok well she has to be VERY VERY ...and i mean VERY fat...and have a black gravid spot by her anus. I will post a pic.

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[scorpn]

she has a gravid spot. she does not look very fat though.

[squirt_12]

yeah well the same think happened to my swordtail and well i just waited until she got VERY fat.

[~Erik3.8.07~]

for the amount of fish it all depends on what kind of fish you plan on keeping, what your filtration is, and your water change schedule

[scorpn]

for the amount of fish it all depends on what kind of fish you plan on keeping, what your filtration is, and your water change schedule

i plan on keeping just tetras barbs danios swordtails and guppies. i have a 404 fluval and plan on purchasing another on in the near future. and i do water chages weekly anywhere from 15% to 25%

[Fishalicious]

I could always tell when the fat round belly turned a bit squarish (box shape) they usually gave birth no longer than 2 days after reaching this shape

[markbob]

With proper water chemistry routine, you should be able to keep approxametly one inch of fish for every one gallon of water. This may be schewed to allow more fish if you have live plants or schewed down if you had larger fish. For example, four 25inch fish meet that criteria but would be way more than should be in the tank.

[scorpn]

thank you. I currently have the following

2 male bettas in thier own environment
1 black crowntail (2 years old)
1 white and purple (4 years old)
1 orange cap oranda in its own tank
2 goldfish in thier own tank (belong to my daughters)

My 100g tank which i purchased for very cheap from a friend, it came with everything including a few fish which i traded for smaller fish as they huge.

i have the following:
1 blue gourami
1 pleco
1 albino cory1 peppered cory
3 bloodfin tetras
5 tiger barbs
3 zebra danios
3 leopard danios
3 jumbo danios
1 firefox
13 neon tetras
4 female guppies
5 male guppies (2 0f which i thought were females) they did not look like the other males i bought. now my ratio is off
3 head and tail lights
5 glo lights
1 male swordtail
3 female swordtails
1 male silver molly
1 female silver molly

i think i am good for now next purchase is a second filtration system