What's easier to breed in 10 gallons?

[Mistago]

Hi,

I was thinking of breeding either platies or guppies in my 10 gallon. What would be easier to breed?

[rich311k]

Either one. Pick which ever one you like better.

[guppyperson]

Gups are great fun. Jolly good! ha ha.

[little hawaii]

Gups are great fun. Jolly good! ha ha.

I would go with swordtails if you are newer at this. They are more robust fish and less prone to disease. Guppies can be a bigger challenge than we think.:22:

[EmmanuelJB]

I agree with rich, what ever one you like best. Either would be ok.

Keep in mind you will need a new home for the babies. Platys or guppys will both quickly over populate a 10 gallon.

[Lab_Rat]

Swordtails are way too big for a 10g.

Why are you wanting to breed? If it's for feeders, I'd go with wild type guppies. If you're trying to produce a new strain, I'd go with fancy guppies or plumetail platies. Endler's are cool and easy to breed as well.

[troy]

Guppies are the easiest to breed.

[bob saget]

In my experience swordtails and platies are much hardier than guppies.

[Sasquatch]

Just because of the size of the tank, I'd go with guppies. We've had platies in a 10g before and when they got big, the females tended to go psycho ...

As long as you regularly move the babies out, or have the females give birth in another tank, you shouldn't have aggression issues with guppies. Two males and 4-6 females will let you produce loads of babies while keeping aggression down.

Remember to feed the females with a high protein diet, they'll be healthier, stress less after giving birth and the fry will be higher quality.

[Mollies rock]

guppies are much easier :goldfish:

[FishGirl-Seattle]

And near as I can tell, Guppies seem to be born pregnant.......

[sheamurai]

I've never had a problem with either of them breeding - the problem was getting them to stop! Or even slow down! I used to feel a bit sorry for my female balloon platy - she was already balloon shaped and she looked huge when pregnant, and once she started she always seemed to be pregnant...

[Yourkisa]

Ive had a sickening amount of success with both platties and mollys, all i had to do was add water and stand well back. In the end, I had to take one of the males back to the store as already within 3 months Ive had 5 batches of fry, and cant deal with them anymore !

You will need to seperate the platty fry as soon as they are born, as on my first batch the mother just turned around and slurped them all back up again as a free meal . . not my greatest success story there !

Also, ive had a batch of platty and molly fry born within 2 days of each other, and the molly's are growing a LOT faster than the platty's are, ild have to say about 300pct faster . . so if your breeding them for feeders, thats another option.

Also, with the mollies, there are blacks, silvers and dalmations . . they will crossbreed as long as you have water, and you have food . . on the dot, once every 30 days ! ugh ! lol

[guppyperson]

Also keep in mind that guppies tend to have more babies each time they give birth so it gets out of hand quick! I'd start out with about 6 gups 2 males and 4 females.