females to males and fry ???

[bluebluecow]

Hi all

I have 5 very nice guppy/endler cross hybrid, BUT they are very randy chasing each other all the time very active all the time and I love them, now I was thinking of females but dont think I have the space for 3 females to each male

so what number of females could I et away with, or should I just forget females.

Also if I had fry, do you think the other fish would take care of surplace babies as I dont want to get overstocked, not planning on seperating females from the tank, its heavy planted.

My tank is 4ft heavy planted, stocking is about 20 neons, 10 glowlight tetra, 6 black neons, 2 clown loaches (about 2inches will be moved to mums tank when bigger) 1 loach, 1 yoyo loach, 1 flash plec, 1 bolivian ram, 2 long fined bronze corys and 3 metza corys

many thanks

liz

[Eileen]

I have a pair of Tiger/Hybrid endlers and the mom had 25 babies. I seperated her from the male as he kept bothering her. She had the babies in a planted tank. I put all the babies in a 2 1/2 gal heated tank to get bigger. I put 12 of the babies at 5wks old in with the male endler.in a 6 gal. He did not bother them except do that mating dance in front of them. I think that because you want to keep them all in the same tank that would be ok. One of my baby fish died while I was siphoning during a water change even though I put a net in front of it. I decided to put the dead baby fish in my big 55. gal tank. I have 1 med sized Angel fish, 6 Harleqen Rasboras, 7 Glow Light Tetras, 2 Gold Dust Mollies males, 1 female Dalmation Molly, 1 male Balloon molly, 2 Bushy Nosed Plecos, 4 Dwarf Rainbow fish in that tank. I thought that the Angel Fish or the Rainbows would have eaten the dead baby but the Glow Light tetra swam up and ate it whole. So I think that if you had mixed endler Hybrids in your tank the other fish you have will take care of the fry population and some will live provided that they have cover to hide. Those baby fry are hard to catch they are fast. :fish: :fish: :fish: