40L Guppie/Female Betta tank

The overall look of the tank


Ok I will admit to naming some of my fish, not the guppies tho

The girls-
Kaylee


Inara


Zoe


Serenity


100 points if you know where the names came from.

 

And just some pics of the guppies. I will pay someone with jelly babies if they can tell me how to take pics of these guys - they are too fast!

 

Some really good looking guppies.

 

Thanks, they are all male, just got lucky at my LFS especially since I havent seen the yellow ones before. I love the yellow ones.

 

Just a small bump more to show @Altum how the girls looks. I got them from him and I have to say he picked me some really beautiful ones.

 

Nice tank!

From Firefly

 

Your guppies realy look good...

 

Haha @Vez - Yep you win jelly babies! (im a HUGE Firefly fan )

Thanks, at the moment I dont fuss with it a lot, just my weekly water changes and adding of flourish and excel when I remember More so to give some of the plants a chance, since some of it died down after being added to my tank.

Thanks @varachhia001 - I actually got these guys by swopping the Oranda goldfish that I used to have (started with them) for these guys in total 8 of them. The rest I just cant take pics of.

 

Ok quick question and I didnt want to start a new thread. What can I do to help the guppies regrow their tails? 2 of the Siamese girls have been taking nips out of the guppies fins. Or would you suggest that I find the 8 guppies a new home? I have to say the aggression in the tank is mainly between the two bigger girls and I suspect the guppies just got caught in "friendly fire" maybe. The guppies havent bothered the girls at all thus far and they are currently doing everything to avoid the girls.

I really would love to keep the tank as is since I love the guppies and the girls. But if I have to I will rather remove the guppies since the girls are the fish that I really love (altho my mum has started calling the one pirana due to her taking bites out of the one guppie - mums fav one :S I know my mum wont be happy to let the guppies go, but in the end I have to do whats best for them.)

 

Rooibos tea bags will help the fins to heal, but not if they continue to be nipped :worried:

 

Ill try the rooibos tea, I use it in my male betta tank since he rips his fins when he flares at his snail companion.

 

my betta also does well with rooibos and some added salt. he flares at HIMSELF (the idiot) and his fins are always raggedy

 

@Anine, trust me flaring at his reflection is still fine! Mine has started flaring at the filter pump - mine has an outlet where it used to blow bubbles from but now it just blows water creating a nice current (not that strong tho). My boy swims into the current hovers there flaring at the water that comes out!

I will see if the girls will leave the boys alone soon. I know it can take up to 3 weeks for peace to be attained with these girls. But after 3 weeks if my guppies have tails left I will decide what to do with them. I really dont want to get rid of my guppies tho cos they are beautiful boys.

 

i taught my betta to flare on command, - he now flares when i move a bic pen the the glass near him haha

 

Quick update here. Tank is filling out nicely with the plants. I've had to swop 2 of the girls out (the two bigger ones) since their aggression was just to much for the tank. Thanks to @Altum for sourcing me two new girls who are stunning altho the one is so camera shy I havent managed to get a pic of her yet. The guppies tails are still looking ragged but I can see the new growth starting, its just taking forever.

Can anyone ID the tall plant on the right in the foreground?

 

Some final scaping, I think I am finally really happy with the look, its more for the girls so that they have plenty of hiding spots and suddenly I see more of them.




Ive also replaced the light bulbs since they where the ones that originally came with the tank and about 8 or 9 months old at least. Found some T5 8W coolwhite bulbs, only 4000k so will see what the plants do. If they dont like it I will be replacing the 8W tube with a 10W T8 red spectrum and one T5 8W - its the best setup besides going for CFL bulbs that we could come up with.

 

Nice looking fish

 

Thanks, I just need to find way to help the guppies tails heal a bit faster, they are slowly healing but it seems to take a lot longer than the siamese fighters.

 

Yea, but atleast there healing. Your tank is so crowded with plants and looks so cool. I tried to do this with my 210L but never succeeded because it was just too big.