guppy fry?

Question

My guppy just gave birth to a few fry (I have 5 in a little side tank thing...the rest are in the main part of the tank. What should I do to keep them alive and healthy?

Answer 1

You should probably seperate all of the fry until they get bigger. I always feed mine just regular flakes finely crushed and keep them all in a breeding net. The last pregnacy went unnoticed and only one of her fry survived. The time before that I managed to save 24! Good Luck and congrats!

Answer 2

You need to get fry food from the pet store for the first few weeks. It comes in a tube. After that feed them finely crushed flakes. Same stuff as the other fish. Hold off on cleaning the tank for a few weeks. Add water as needed. You will have to cover the filter so they dont get sucked up. A peice of a pair of nylons works good just make sure to watch it so it doesnt get clogged.

Any GOOD pet store will have an associate that can tell you exactly what you need to do.

Answer 3

Simple buy another tank and remove all adult fish to the new tank coz u could not catch fry. And there should be more fry in your tank; guppy will breed minimum 20-25 fry at once and maximum upto 100.

Answer 4

You also need to try to separate them from the adults or they will try to eat them. You can try to plant some plants to give the fry a place to hide. It's good that you separated some of them, and it would be best if you could pull the rest out of there. Other than that, crushed flake food should do well for them, or you can get baby brine shrimp, which is a fancier frozen food, but they'll be able to eat it easier too.

Answer 5

if you have plenty of plant in the tank the fry should be fine take your regular food and grind it into a fine powder then feed them a pinch not much till they get bigger