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Many new comers to the fishkeeping hobby, start off with small tanks, such as ten gallons, and stock with fish such as guppies/platies/swordtails/mollies. tips for livebearers beginners.

* Livebearers are fishes that give birth to live young, so they can easy overstock a tank, with 1 drop of young.

* Female livebearers have the ablitiy to store sperm inside of them, so this means without a male, she can still get pregent, and drop babies.

* If u have a small tank, and are still looking for livebearers, get an all male group. That way there will be no breeding.

* When stocking a ten with livebearers stay clear of swordtails, and mollies. these should have a min of 20 gallons, b/c of 1, there size, 2 there swimming ability. Guppies and platies are ok in a ten. Males that is.

* Dont get me wrong, livebearers can breed in a ten, but it is best to have a 20+ gallon aquarium to house the young.

Very true, I begain with a five and had to get a twenty because of overstocking. I didn't know you had livearer knowledge, cool.
-NewBreeder16

Last edited by NewBreeder16 at 09-Sep-2005 21:55

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You can call me Newb too, since I'm not nere new any more.

i got some tricks up my sleves, oops i am not wearing a shirt now

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You can call me Newb too, since I'm not nere new any more.

if not planning on breeding a single or two male balloon mollies(depends on aggression) can live in a 10g.

Last edited by ronnfive at 12-Sep-2005 21:32

ballon mollies from what i have seen, really dont get to the size of the reg yuctian sail fin mollies, so two males i would guess be fine, with no breeding, and given they have all there needs taken care of.

We started with guppies in a 10 and ended up filling 5 tanks- from 5.5 to 10.

http://www.fishprofiles.com/site/aquarank.aspx

...and given they have all there needs taken care of.

i'm sorry chris but i think there's a hole in that statement... because almost all of male mollies in primary NEED to play with females. (kid'n but true.)

ronn

,but i mean tank size, and water qualitiy etc. foods