What can guppies live with?

Answer 1

They can live with goldfish. They can live with small catfish. The ones like you get at Walmart. They also get along good with other guppys. You can put as many together as you want, and they will be fine. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Guppies are very peaceful fish, and although they may eat baby fish, they will not harm other adult fish. However, there are some species they are incompatible with because the guppies could get hurt.

Obviously, since guppies are small, all predatory species are out. So no cichlids other than dwarfs (kribensis, rams, apistogrammas etc), no predatory catfish, and no butterflyfish etc.

Because guppies generally have long, flowing fins, it is inadvisable to keep them with fin nipping species. This means that you should not keep guppies with barbs or tetras. There are some species of tetra that usually do not nip fins, for example the ember tetra, provided they are kept in schools of eight or more. Do your research - if you want to try to keep guppies and tetras in the same tank, make sure your tetra species are not known fin nippers.

If you are keeping 'wild' guppies (often confused with Endler's livebearer, although the two are not the same thing - but this applies if you're keeping Endlers as well) or a guppy strain with short fins, then keeping them with nippy fish is fine.

You also need to be careful with the sex ratio of guppies themselves - males will stress females by harassing them to mate, so keep either all males, all females, or three (or more) females to every male in a mixed sex tank.

If it's not on this list, use your common sense: most peaceful community fish are good tankmates for guppies.