How Many Guppies Could A 10 Gallon Aquarium Sustain?
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- About a year and a half ago I made a UA-cam video where I posed the question: How many guppies should you put in a 10 gallon? Perhaps a better question is: How many guppies could a 10 gallon aquarium sustain? I currently keep three 10 gallon guppy tanks and use my experience with them as examples.
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Thanks for sharing your observations - i like all 3 tanks - look forward to the 30 gallon shrimp tank 🙌
Do you buffer your water and raise your GH when doing pwc?
It all comes back to water quality as affected by, food, fish bioloads, oxygenation, filtration, etc. In a heavily stocked tank with fry a minimum of every other day water change is suggested. Also, in a high census tank water hardness, pH, etc. become much more important to sustain a colony. Nice tank Jeff. Enjoyed the presentation. (In one of my10 gal guppy tanks I have an easy 100 with fry constantly being added).
Those cories are huge!
I've had them nearly 2 years now and they have grown considerably.
How many guppies would you recommend for a 10 gallon tank for someone that is a beginner? An amount that is manageable but also not an empty tank? Also what cleanup crew would you pick and also the quantity? Thanks!
I'd recommend starting with just one pair of guppies and be aware that they'll have babies that could eventually fill the tank. A group of 6 corydoras would make a fine choice in beginner's guppies tank.
Jeff's Aquarium Hobby Enjoyment thanks for the advice! Just bought a tank. Gonna run it for a month then grab some fish!
Get one male and 3 females. Don't get any cories as they are messy fish and really need to be in larger tanks.
@@cryoraptora303tm2 that is what I have. I got my first 4 guppies day before yesterday and put them in a 10 gallon. I also have several betta fish as well but would greatly like to raise guppies and eventually upgrade them to a better tank. :3
@@Midnight1297 You have several betta fish? Firstly, they aren't compatible with guppies and secondly, only one betta should be living in a 10 gallon. Female sororities require 20 gallon+ and should only be attempted by experienced fishkeepers.
4 guppies in a cycled 10 gallon tank is perfectly acceptable though. Best of luck.
Super cool
How often do you change the wild guppy tank water?
On average I change 45% of water each week on all my tanks. I might do 25% multiple times a week or if I can only manage a single water change in a week then I'll do about 40% in one shot.
Love it!! The inch per gallon rule is BS in my book, it’s all about filtration! I always have a few filters in my tanks and just do more water changes! Good video dude!! 😊👌
Thanks. Yeah, filtration and water change frequency is what really makes a difference with how many fish one could keep.
Great to see your video Man.How many days do you change your water?
I try to do water changes on a weekly basis.
Hey by any chance do you sell your guppies? And your live in Las Vegas right? Thanks in advance
I haven't sold any yet, but I've thought about doing so and likely will at some point. I recently moved to Henderson.
You must have to do so many water changes and cool guppies
Thanks. I do change water more frequently. But I think it's worth it because I like to keep more fish.
I once had over 500 half inch guppy fry in a ten gallon tank
They sure had produce lots of babies.
What happened though ?
@@gantongangsta3735 I'm curious too
3 years after we're still waiting
Could you keep 15 guppies in a 5 gallon tank then because you can keep 30 in a 10 gallon ?
I mean you can but I wouldn't recommend it 1 mistake and you've got 0 guppies the larger the tank the harder it is to mess up for example missing a water change or adding too many fish at once etc. in the long run a 10 gallon is better than a 5 gallon and a 15 gallon is better than a 10 gallon and so on purely off of water volume doesn't matter if you have 100 guppies in the 10 gallon and 50 in the 5 its harder to destroy a eco system in the 10 gallon than it is the 5 kinda like our ocean its pretty hard to destroy such a large eco system you would need to make a lot of mistakes unlike a lake over the course of a month every fish in it could end up dead. (live plants help a lot btw)
Rayey thanks!
Yeah, any swings in water parameters can have a greater impact in lower volume. You could keep 15 guppies in a 5 gallon, just be careful.
What do you feed those corys to get them so big!
They eat lots of Repashy.
@@jeffsaquariumhobbyenjoymen9468 what is repashy?
@@lostmangos It's a gel food that comes as a pre-mix powder. Fish love it.
I have a 20 gallon tank that has easily over 100 guppies and probably 100 cherry shrimp. I almost never do any water changes, usually just top off water. The tank is heavily planted and virtually no additional filtration or circulation/air. There are a couple of videos on my channel about the tank, check it out if you like.
BTW new sub here looking forward to checking out your other videos.
That's awesome. I like tanks loaded with guppies and shrimp.
Plants help massively; I let my plants go apeshit because it means I can keep the amount of fish I do in my 37 gallon without being paranoid about nitrate. I love having massive overgrown plants.
nice brotha
How do you keep them from overpopulation?
You remove lesser-quality guppies from the population. This would include guppies with crooked spines, poor colours, small tails etc.. There are some fish in here that I would personally remove.
I'll keep one predator fish inside the aquarium...predator fish will control the population, i keep one cute axolotl to balance the population 😁😁
I had around 70 or even more when you count all the fry hiding in the plants, they were happy and healthy BUT i overfiltrated my aquarium and had a lot of plants. It may seem amazing when you look at tank with all these beautiful fish swimming - and honestly i don't recommend that type of tank to begginers and people who are lazy to do water changes. really trust me on that your fish will probably get sick or/and die. Get yourself some peacful tank without problems. [ and sorry for my english if that was a nightmare to read :) ]
Yeah, that many guppies is not ideal for the average fish keeper. It can be done with enough care and attention, but not that easy.
Huge Cory's also I'm keeping my Cherry's in 6.0 pH with is probably low but idk if I should change the pH Because I have alot of pregnant females should I just keep the low pH or chance raising it
I don't really know much about raising ph. My water is close to 8 ph and very hard from the tap. I've heard that adding crushed coral can raise ph. Maybe that could help. Have you had any shrimplets?
I'd use crushed coral to increase pH. Chery shrimps really need a pH of at the very least 6.5, preferably 7.0 or above.
That catfish is huge
Sure is.
I have had 2 females 1 male and 80+ fry in different stages of growth...I did water changes every other day...all my tanks are overstocked...the biggest problem you get with overstocking guppies is bloat...a sign that the fish are stressed and you need to get a new tank set up or find some of your fish new homes..I have found keeping huge groups of females together with just a few males cuts down stress..female guppies are very social..and have an hierarchy..this keeps the peace in the tank...it's important to know which fish are top dogs because removing them can put your tank out of whack...that's just my observation of my tanks..other people may find things different..
I did have a few issues with bloated fish in my guppy / endler hybrid tank a while back. One of the things I notice is that some females appear worn out and I believe that's because I don't separate males and don't maintain a high enough female to male ratio.
@@jeffsaquariumhobbyenjoymen9468 what about dropsy...I lose some of my older guppies to it..mostly females..its been 3 in just over a year..I did read older fish die of dropsy because their kidneys go...
@@lilybeaumont683 Probably exactly that as well as less than optimal conditions wearing them out over time. If you're going to keep a colony like this with a large number of fish per gallon, you need an adequate filter and you really need to stay on top of water changes. I'd do a 25% water change on this tank at least once a week, probably twice. The cories really don't help things.
I think you need to introduce foreign guppies to avoid inbreedinh.
I have a 20 gallon community tank. I had two males and added what I thought was 3 males. Just found 5 babies 🥴😵. Not prepared for this.
Well if you have livebearers in a community tank then most babies will likely get eaten. You might like seeing a few babies grow up. IMO, raising babies is one of the best things about the fish keeping hobby.
Nice Fatcories 😹
Always Film Them ✌
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uhhh thats extremely overstocked,
Ok thanks for letting me know.
@@jeffsaquariumhobbyenjoymen9468 i mean you still have a very good tank setup
no yeah it kind of bothers me that he is normalizing this, those fish might be surviving, but they certainly aren't happy. And there is a cory in there as well. Like, come on dude.
Ive got about 40 in a 10 gallon and i haven't had issues with them. Come for me, idc, its the healthiest tank out of them all.
Same I have alot guppies in 10 gallon and there VERY HEALTHY
@@johnxporter i think stocking levels depend on experience level, i wouldn't suggest that many for a beginner, but for me it works and I'm planning to move them to another 20 after it's set up eventually.
@@ashleybenson8688 cool yeah I would not recommended for beginners but I have 2 years if experience
How do you keep them from overpopulating
If you're keeping up with water changes and have a powerful enough filter, then yes that's fine. Like you say, I wouldn't recommend that for a beginner.