The Title Says it all... I have 1 guppy in a 10 gallon aquarium. I really don't want fish like Mollies, or swordtails. Thanks!
What fish can live with Guppies?
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I currently have some danios, otos, and a betta living with my 6 guppies. I would recommend getting a few more guppies for your one guppy since they love the company of their own kind. Mine play together all day long. If you are worried about them reproducing, get either all males or all females. I would be careful with danios though, I've seen mine chase after the guppies and my lyretail guppy has a few nicks in his tail where he didn't get out of the way fast enough. Other community fish such as neons would be a good match.
I wouldn't recommend bettas with guppy,you can add cherry shrimps, zebra danio, hatchets, corys, cherry barb, celestial pearl danio, and africa dwarf frogs.
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From my experience guppies are very hardy fish and they generally get along with most peaceful small fish. Obviously nothing big enough that will eat the guppies, but other than that I can't think of any general rules other than bettas might confuse guppies for other bettas and will be aggressive towards them. Also, if your guppies breed in the tank other fish will probably eat the fry.
If you don't want guppy overload, get all of your guppies the same sex -- warning, males will occasionally have little dominance "competitions" but it won't go past that. If you decide to get females and males, try keeping more females than males, because males tend to bug females all the time... by keeping more females the attention from the male guppies is less per female.
If you don't want guppy overload, get all of your guppies the same sex -- warning, males will occasionally have little dominance "competitions" but it won't go past that. If you decide to get females and males, try keeping more females than males, because males tend to bug females all the time... by keeping more females the attention from the male guppies is less per female.
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Many people have suggested cory's. They're great. I love albino cory's. Since they're bottom dwellers, they will almost never associate with guppies. Tetras make a nice addition to any peaceful tank. Furthermore, I would suggest getting more guppies! They school and they're adorable when they are all different colours. Maybe platies? If you go with gourami's I would stay in the dwarf species areas. Personally, I would either get a single neaon blue dwarf or two dwarf honey gourami's.
Hope this helps!
Hope this helps!
I have a beta in one of my guppy tanks (FEMALE betta) and they do just fine... it all depends on the attitude of that particular beta
of course-- the fact that its a 55g tank helps too.. but I did have a female beta and a bunch of guppies in a 20g and they worked fine as well
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I had a male betta in with both male and female guppies for months, and they all got along. I was very lucky though, male bettas can be aggressive, you just never know. Mine was just very peaceful. And I agree about getting at least one more guppy so your guppy won't be lonely.
I have Harlequin Rasboras, Glowlight Tetras, Neon Tetras, Misc Cories and White Clouds with mine. Never had any problems.