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    Male vs Female Guppies

    I am looking for a little help with guppies...  I am thinking about getting a tank (small for the kids) to look at up in their play / TV room.  I am thinking of something like a 29g and installing some Guppy's in it.  I saw the other day some very beautiful guppies at Fish Land which has a bright yellow tail.  I am wondering, from my past females usually where close to color less and only the males had color... now has that changed over the last 20+ years I have not been keeping an aquarium ?

    I am not really looking to breed them but I am looking more just to have a colorful tank with Guppy's and other docile fish in it.  I am seriously thinking about getting some Mikrogeophagus ramirezi (Blue Ram) in this tank too.   I have to set it up etc..  Room mate is going to build a stand for the tank (I will take a picture of it when he is done).  I dont think these two fish will fight each other.

    What fish do Jesper have
    180 WC T. Moorii Chilambo +1 Petro trewavasae.
    110     Cyps, WC Xeno Spilopterus Kipili WC/F1/F2 T. sp red Kiku
    58 S. Decorus
    "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." -Margaret Thatcher
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    Re: Male vs Female Guppies

    I am wondering, from my past females usually where close to color less and only the males had color... now has that changed over the last 20+ years I have not been keeping an aquarium ?

    Sure has, at least with fancy guppies  :)  The males will still have more color and longer fins than the females, but the females now have some color to them, also.

    The rams might find the long flowing fins of the guppies irresistable...they are, after all, cichlids. But I've heard mixed reviews about their level of aggression, so it might just depend on the fish. Then again, if you have both a male and female guppy, you will breed them whether you like it or not, but the rams might take the fry off your hands for you.  :wink:
    "Millennium hand and shrimp!"

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    • #3
      Re: Male vs Female Guppies

      I was kinda thinking the same... the Ram's would have a party with them.. I am sure... and if the Ram's breed then the more power to them.. I just moved having them back when I was young, I thought they where the neatest fish since sliced bread...

      On another note I need to work on getting a 29g setup for my Pink Convicts too, so who knows when everything will materialize....  I am thinking once the the pinks are out of the 60g, I am wanting to add an additonal pair of Green Terrors, and two pair if Firemouths.

      What fish do Jesper have
      180 WC T. Moorii Chilambo +1 Petro trewavasae.
      110       Cyps, WC Xeno Spilopterus Kipili WC/F1/F2 T. sp red Kiku
      58 S. Decorus
      "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." -Margaret Thatcher

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      • #4
        Re: Male vs Female Guppies

        I have a question that could be posted as a follow up to this one.

        I bought two cobra guppies this weekend, a male and female pair, and put them in my tank with 4 other male guppies.  For the first several hours the males other than the cobra male would not leave the female alone.  This morning they seemed to have chilled out a bit (excited cause of the new folks in town I guess) but if the harassment continues I will probably want to get another female in there to evenly distribute the harassment, right?  I will report back on this after I have had more time to observe.

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        • #5
          Re: Male vs Female Guppies

          Many more females, in my opinion. Male guppies are relentless, and a ratio of even one-on-one can be a bit stressful sometimes!
          "Millennium hand and shrimp!"

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          • #6
            Re: Male vs Female Guppies

            Good thing I have plenty of room in my tank.  Reading further it seems like she might be pregnant as well.  Her "gravid spot" is dark and she is quite large.  I will probably isolate her in the 10 gallon and move the tetras out to the main.  My tank was so much easier when there was only boy fish.  Thanks Mzungu.

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            • #7
              Re: Male vs Female Guppies

              can you tell the male guppie from the female ?
              'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust ...'
              He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four-year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

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              • #8
                Re: Male vs Female Guppies

                Sure....according to my experience, the female is right and the male is left/wrong......
                Truth is the cement that holds the bricks and stones of a sane and civilized society together. Remove the former and the latter will crumble.

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                • #9
                  Re: Male vs Female Guppies

                  Ummm, I think the female is left front and the male is lower right back.
                  Reasoning with some people is like trying to nail jello to a wall...

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                  • #10
                    Re: Male vs Female Guppies

                    Wow, that's quite a female!!

                    I think you both are correct!  
                    "Millennium hand and shrimp!"

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                    • #11
                      Re: Male vs Female Guppies

                      Yep, the male is the little one, never have been able to grow males as big as females.
                      'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust ...'
                      He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four-year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

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                      • #12
                        Re: Male vs Female Guppies

                        Regardless, they are both really nice looking guppies.  I remember when female guppies were almost colorless.  Guess that gives away my age doesn't it  

                        Did you get them at an HAS or HLA auction?
                        Reasoning with some people is like trying to nail jello to a wall...

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                        • #13
                          Re: Male vs Female Guppies

                          Szidlon,

                          This is why I asked the same question..  I goto a LFS and I looked at these beautiful guppys and I wondered why they only sold male guppy's and no females....    I am 38, and the last time I had guppy's I was 10 years old, and there was color = male, no color = female... no if ands or buts...

                          This is why I am asking these questions.

                          What fish do Jesper have
                          180 WC T. Moorii Chilambo +1 Petro trewavasae.
                          110                           Cyps, WC Xeno Spilopterus Kipili WC/F1/F2 T. sp red Kiku
                          58 S. Decorus
                          "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." -Margaret Thatcher

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                          • #14
                            Re: Male vs Female Guppies

                            I lucked onto a pair of these 7 or 8 years ago when a local breeder was moving out of town and dumped his excess stock at a LFS.
                            I kept them for about 6 generations and for some reason I got a few half black red deltas and like a dummy I put them in the same tank.   Two generations later all I had were half black reds.    Finally lost them to some disease that wiped out the entire tank in 3 days.  I now have some yellow cobras that I got from village and some albino yellow cobras that I got at the last HAS auction.

                            saw some red or flame guppies at the HLA auction that were really nice but I got outbid on them.
                            'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. 'Without you, we are but dust ...'
                            He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four-year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

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                            • #15
                              Re: Male vs Female Guppies

                              yes  those red guppies and the albino ones were of my  property, and probale any time soon i will try to have some more.
                              the anwser to everybody question its easy, thanks to the ifga(international,fancy guppy asso...)nowdays,
                              females can be quite colorfull, the thing is somebody has to take the painfull task of adding gene to gene to a strain of fish.
                              if you check internet you will find phenomenal pictures of unusual guppys that you never see in any lfs.
                              thats the reason why this guppys cost 30  or 50 or more dollars.
                              the answer is today some bredeers keep lines true,maintaining the same gene pool breding one to another, and thats  why
                              you will find colorfull females.

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