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| Name | Endlers Guppy male to female ratio |
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| Video Discription | Buy Endlers locally on Craigslist: https://newyork.craigslist.org/search/sss?userpostingid=7424875577 Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/aquarium_garden/ Blog: https://rndmbits.blogspot.com/2024/03/endlers-guppy-male-to-female-ratio.html All my projects https://website www.fewdoit.com 00:00 Endlers Guppy male to female ratio 00:05 Here you can see a couple of my dwarf guppies. And in 2020 I got Blue star Endlers. Endlers and Guppies are relatives and they exhibit similar behavior. Today I want to answer your question about Guppies and Endlers male to female ratio. Listen to what other people say, but trust your experience above all! 00:56 How many males and females to put initially in your aquarium depends on your goals. For breeding a strain with particular colors or different shaped fins you need one male and one female to start with. I selected this pair of smallest guppies I could find back in 2016 for breeding a strain of dwarfs. With more than one partner fish would choose to breed with the strongest, largest, natural colors fish. For selective breeding we need 1 male and 1 female only. The ratio of males to females for a casual keeping and breeding of the same strain is not as important. 01:37 Without a female present in the aquarium, colorful Guppy and Endlers males do what males always do. Males compete among themselves by showing off how beautiful they are. Here you can see 3 Endlers males are figuring out who is the best among all while the female is taking time off in her hideout. Without a female around males look kind of lost. 02:07 Males follow a female tirelessly all day long. Here you can see a male leaving the female to check on me and to see what's going on. Males constantly scout surroundings and use bright colors to distract predators from the female. 02:34 The female chooses the most energetic, most persistent and naturally colored males. In aquarium hobby Guppy and Endlers males behavior toward females often called aggressive and harassments. Don't jump to conclusions yet! Males rarely get in physical fights. I want to point out the presence of another female in this tank. Notice that all males follow the same one female. Males see the other female too. 03:18 And yet, males follow only the largest strongest female most of the time. That is a very important observation you would notice in all aquariums with any male to female ratio. It's the same behavior even in aquariums with many females and one male. Also notice that males spend a good deal of their time "harassing" each other. I personally prefer to call it teasing. Most of the time males just show off without making any physical contacts. Males that follow a female would try to touch her under belly fin. Touching the female is a quite risky move for any male. 04:08 Adult Guppy and Endlers females are almost twice larger than males. Females are stronger than males. And females can swim faster than males. She can lose all males at her whim. That is the mating game Guppy and Endlers play all day long. Here you can see a male gets distracted by another female. And shortly after, he goes back to follow the queen. 04:53 Here is a classic example of how males keep distance next to the queen. Males stay behind and slightly to the side of the female to make themselves noticeable. 05:18 All the males' "harassments" and "aggression" toward females is bleak compared with females fights. Females fight for real - full body contact. This fight gets interrupted by one of my Eastern newts. The fight between females is not over yet. 06:00 The females will keep fighting until one of them yields or gets damaged badly. A female fighting for the crown is basically a charging unstoppable bull. Fighting females aiming to damage each other's fins. Fish with damaged fins live very short lives. This fight ended for now - the young female retreated. The old queen stood her ground and an escort of males joined the queen. 06:51There is only one Endlers Guppy queen among all females in any aquarium. The queen picks males for mating. 07:00 As time goes by, the younger female gets more confident and skillful. The new fight for the crown is imminent. The fights between two equivalently strong females may last for 5-10 minutes. As you are watching this fight you may notice many other fish swim by watching the fight closely. And that is the answer to the question about the male to female ratio. There is only one queen. Always only one queen. The queen chooses males to mate with. All other females may have the second pick only if the queen allows it. It is a female domination where the queen rules them all. Fights between females happen noticeably more frequently when fish are kept in larger groups. Less opponents prompts less fights. The younger female seems to be scoring better this time. The old queen yielded. The new queen rules! Here the new queen with her escort. Have fun and happy aquariums :) |
| Category | Pets & Animals |
| Tags | Endlers | Guppy | male to female ratio | how many guppies | how many fish | fish care | aquarium fish care |
