guppy Q's!! answer all!!?

Question

How big?
How many fry?
Pregnancy time?
Life expectancy?
who ever adds more info gets the 10 points!!

Answer 1

Female fancy guppies can grow to 3 inches, but 1.5-2 inches is common for males.
They will give birth to 20-40 fry every 30 days. So, gestation is about 30 days. A properly cared for guppy can be expected to live several years.

If you want on breeding and having females, always keep 2 or 3 females for every male in the tank. Males are pesky and amorous and can stress a lone female. Each guppy should be alloted 2 or 3 gallons of water space, so you could get 3 or 4 in a 10 gallon tank, plus their fry, which should eventually be moved.

Fry growth rate is highly dependant upon how the fry are cared for. In a large tank with lots of plants, lots of good food (like brine shrimp and daphnia), with a heater and frequent water changes, guppies will grow much fast and brighter than guppies kept in a breeding net or in a small tank with no heat. Fry can also be left their parents, but the adults will eat most of the babies. Survival of the fittest, though, can be beneficial, as the remaining babies will the strongest ones.

If you're planning breed them, good luck :) They are very rewarding to keep and breed and you can find all sorts of whacky colours. However, they are extremely prolific, and it can be difficult to give them to petstores and even then, you won't get any money for them.

Answer 2

It is a small member of the Poecilidae family (females 4 centimetres long, males 2½–3 centimetres long) and like all other members of the family, is live-bearing. It prefers a hard water aquarium and can withstand levels of salinity up to 150% sea water (58 ppt sodium chloride)[1], which has led to them being occasionally included in marine tropical community tanks, as well as in freshwater tropical tanks. Its most famous characteristic is its propensity for breeding, and can breed in both fresh water and marine aquariums[2]

Guppy breeding by aquarists produces variations in appearance ranging from color consistency to fantails and "spike" swordtails. Selective breeding has created an avid "fancy guppy" collector group, while the "wild" guppy maintains its popularity as one of the hardiest aquarium fish. The gestation period of a guppy is 22-26 days. When the female guppy becomes fertilized, a dark area near the anus, known as the gravid spot, will enlarge and darken. Guppies prefer water temperatures of about 22 °C (72 °F) for reproduction. After giving birth, the female is ready for conception within a few hours. If a male does not mate with the female soon after birth, the female can use stored sperm from the previous mating.

People breeding their own guppies should be aware that the adults will eat their young. Specially designed livebearer birthing tanks, which can be suspended inside the aquarium, are available from aquatic retailers. These serve the dual purpose of shielding the pregnant female from further attention from the males, and of providing a separate area for the newborn young as protection from being eaten by their mother.

Life expectancy up to three years

Answer 3

She's likely going to provide delivery VERY quickly, purchase a breeder internet for the little ones, and positioned the mummy in there, wait till each of the little ones are born then eliminate her from it into the tank itself, also as for her black spoke of bally perhaps she's great bc of to a lot eating and he or she's getting ill, attempt lightning up on the nutrition slightly and c if it clears up.reliable luck with the little ones! =3

Answer 4

not to big, I don't know about the fry ?, they multiply like heck! and live pretty long. I have regular and fancy ones.

Answer 5

i see a couple of people above know how to copy and paste how gr8 even desi could have done that himself as for the question you have heaps of reading above desi so i'll leave it at what they have all said

Answer 6

http://www.petco.com/caresheets/fish/Guppy.pdf