breeding guppies?

Question

what temp. should the tank be? how big shoud the tank be? What about the size and temp for the tank for the fry?

Answer 1

Since I'm breeding guppies this month, I'll tell you what i'm doing. There's about 3 females and 1 male guppy in a 10 gallon tank. My tank is set at 75 - 80 degrees. I've been feeding them freeze dried bloodworms for the past week and one of the females is already pregnant, and kinda big. Also added tons of hornwort to the tank instead of the plastic breeding grass.

As soon as the other female shows signs of being pregnant, i'm moving the male and other female into the home tank(20 gal.), put a divider between the two mothers to keep them from eating the others fry. When one stops dropping fry, put her into the home tank, then repeat for the other.
Turn off the filter to prevent fry from being sucked into it.
Then I'm either going to buy fry food from a local fish store, or use crushed egg yolk.

The same technique could probably work for you too.

Edit: I found quite a few fry on the bottom of one of the "rooms" Decided to feed them egg yolk and apparently, they love it.

Answer 2

Guppies do not lay eggs like most fish, instead they have live babies. I gave them a shot once and they wouldn't stop reproducing. Ended up with 2 10 Gal and about 100 guppies in each one. I even separated the males from the females but that didn't help any because after a female has been bred she can store the sperm and have babies when ever she wants. Its good to have plenty of hinding places for the babies or others wise they will gate ate by the big ones. The temp should be about 78 degrees.

Answer 3

oh that's easy question...

Fancy colourful guppies are male, and the dull are females.

All you need is one male/lots of female because one male will mate with other or all females by himself. but I think male guppies are beautiful, it never hurt to have several male with several females.

I'd suggest you to lay coase planing materials like 2inch tall that looks like grass looking on the bottom of the tank which will keep baby fry down there safe if the babies feel threatened. all they need is about 10 to 20 gallon tank (simple size ) and gentle filter like Aquaclear 10 on low , because guppies don't like strong currents or powerful filters, and plus they don't make a lot of mess.

Answer 4

yes. you defintely need another tank for the babies. Preferably those kinds that you hang on the side. And when the female lays the eggs, it would drop into the safe slot for the ends, so the filter cannot get it and they won't eat their babies.

oh? They don't lay eggs? I'm so sorry my answer is wrong! :( I must have read wrong! SOWWIE!

Answer 5

one male, lots of females. they can do the rest. you can set up a seperate tank for the babies or they have floating seperators that the babies can live in.