If You Were Breeding Guppies Would You...
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fourthtimelucky
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Contaminating the strain? As in the females in one tank getting pregnant by the males in the other tank? Wouldn't that be a bit like getting pregnant from sitting on a toilet seat? 
But if you mean contaminating one tank with a disease from another, that would be possible.
But if you mean contaminating one tank with a disease from another, that would be possible.
LauraFrog
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I bought my first platy about six months ago and got totally hooked on livebearers. I'm the least professional breeder everywhere, all of my adults are in one tank, I don't currently have a male and I cross strains. I've actually got some very nice fry 
Chill, haha.
As for contaminating a tank with sperm from another strain, I'd say it would be far less likely with livebearers than with other fish. The male uses a gonopodium to fertilise the female, and internal fertilisation greatly reduces the likelihood of any sperm being spilled into the water. Even if there were sperm in the water and therefore on whatever was switched between tanks, there's nothing to then put the sperm inside the females. If you did this a hundred times you might get one fertilisation - and that's ONE cross strain fry on ONE pregnancy on ONE female.
Just be careful that there are no FRY hiding on whatever you move, because if they grow up and mate, that will contaminate your strain, particularly if the fry are male.
Chill, haha.As for contaminating a tank with sperm from another strain, I'd say it would be far less likely with livebearers than with other fish. The male uses a gonopodium to fertilise the female, and internal fertilisation greatly reduces the likelihood of any sperm being spilled into the water. Even if there were sperm in the water and therefore on whatever was switched between tanks, there's nothing to then put the sperm inside the females. If you did this a hundred times you might get one fertilisation - and that's ONE cross strain fry on ONE pregnancy on ONE female.
Just be careful that there are no FRY hiding on whatever you move, because if they grow up and mate, that will contaminate your strain, particularly if the fry are male.
that you frog, im forreal worried because i breed endlers and a bunch of pure guppy strains... i want a 0% chance of crossbreeding... as it stands right now nothing ever mixes(sponges, heaters they EVEN have there own nets)
LauraFrog
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What are you breeding them for? Do they sell well?
I <3 Guppies... lol. Don't have any at the moment cause my tank is, like, full.
Anyway, I'm not sure because I've never had more than 3 tanks set up at once and they're all different species. But to be honest it sounds very unlikely to me.
I <3 Guppies... lol. Don't have any at the moment cause my tank is, like, full.
Anyway, I'm not sure because I've never had more than 3 tanks set up at once and they're all different species. But to be honest it sounds very unlikely to me.
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No, it is impossible for your lines to be contaminated by moving a sponge filter. It is possible that you could however, transfer bacterial and/or parasitic infections.
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