are fish (GUPPIES) suppose to get fat?

Question

im scared. because ive been feeding it everyday and theyre growing alot rapidly. i used to feed them every 3 days because last time i fed my fish they died of over eating. but are guppies suppose to grow or is it getting fat?

realisticly their stomach is too tiny

Answer 1

maybe preggers

Answer 2

The females will grow a lot bigger than the males, 3 or 4 times as big. The males will be the ones with the really showy fins and tails, the females will be round around the middle, more silvery looking and usually with a very plain tail. The females don't lay eggs, the have live birth and drop the babies in the seaweed. If you have the males and females in the same tank, then you will have a lot of guppies in a very short time. In the wild they get eaten by just about everything so they have to breed fast just to survive.

When the females are pregnant they get noticeably bigger around the tummy. The babies when they are first born are too small to see without a magnifier. If you can see them they will look like little specks floating in the water. Give them a sporting chance, have seaweed (pondweed actually, they are fresh water) floating... plus it keeps the oxygen level up in the water, and gives the adult fish something to nibble.

They are a small species but not as small as minnows.

Answer 3

The female guppy is supposed to look fat compared to the male, always, yes. She will look REALLY fat when about to give birth.

So, don't worry about your guppies being fat. Do worry about your feeding habits and practices. Most fish do OK if feed twice or three times a day. Guppies are a bit different, because their digestive cycle is over in 20 to 30 minutes! The ideal is to feed them several times a day but very, very tiny amounts. Like the answers above read, simply whatever they will finish in about 30 seconds is a great rule of thumb.

Also, try to vary the type of food you offer them. When your schedule allows for it, look into hatching brine shrimp eggs to give them, which will make them develop healthier, bigger, and with brighter colors. Also, look into growing 'water fleas' for all the guppies and micro worms for the baby guppies.

Good luck. You should be noticing some babies once the females reach sexual maturity which should be at 5 or 6 months of age.

Answer 4

Fish need to eat every day, just don't drop as much food in the tank. If they're getting fat, it's because it's a pregnant female. Male guppies always stay slender and small, but females are larger and they get very fat before giving birth. A regular guppy (the kind that's 12 cents and usually used as feeder fish) can give birth once every 28 days, if they are fed regularly and live in warm water instead of cold water. High protein food is better for them than high carbohydrate food (look on the ingredients label of your can of fish food - is the first ingredient listed "fish meal" or "wheat meal"?). A young female guppy will give birth to about 8 or 10 babies the first time she breeds, but every brood will get larger as she grows older and gets bigger, provided she eats high protein chow every day. A well fed older female can throw off 30 or more babies every month, which will be of breeding age in a month themselves. The babies especially need to be fed often - at least twice a day - because they have VERY tiny tummies and very little stored fat. You will have to grind the fish food between your fingers before dropping it in the tank so the bits are small enough for the tiny babies to eat. If there are other fish in your tank, the other fish will eat the baby guppies. I raise guppies and sell them back to the pet shop. Wanna have even more fun with your guppies? Raise live brine shrimp to feed them. Ask a question about how to raise sea monkeys!

Answer 5

The general rule here is to make sure that any food you give them should be eaten up in 30 seconds. If after 30 seconds there is still food left, you are overfeeding them. When i had guppies, i generally fed them a small amount of food once a day.

Are both the males (long fancy tails) and females (shorter tails, usually less fancy) getting fat? If so, then you are overfeeding them or their food is making them constipated. If that's the case, try switching to a different brand or type. If they are getting fat enough to where their scales are creating a spiky visual effect, that's fishy constipation.

If it's just the females, check for a dark spot near their tail. If that dark spot is there, then they're pregnant. You can tell when they're about to give birth when their stomach takes on a "boxy" appearance.

Answer 6

if last time you fed them every 3 days because they died from over eating, why are you feeding them everyday again? Guppies will get fat, but usually from pregnancy. They procreate often, especially if you have many in the tank. How much are you feeding? If you put in a pinch and its not gone in 30 seconds, your probaby over feeding again. Dont feed more then once per day.. fish food says do it alot, cause they want you to run out of fish food and buy more..

Answer 7

Sure they grow as long as you don't see their stomach or their belly get real big you dont have to worry. If they are just sitting around in a spot in the tank this means that you over fed them. Also if you see they are breathing rapidly (you see their gills moving and their mouth gasping) this also could mean over feedding. I have 6 fish adn i feed them 2 times a day. In the morning and at night.

Answer 8

truly. A black moor is a goldfish. So a pink Fantail goldfish (for exmple) and a black moor are the same species. it truly is type of a black lab and a golden retriever. they could have offspring basically high-quality. 2 species of fish would nicely be able to reproduce, countless issues must be ideal although. for example, a blood parrot fish is a hyrid (blend of distinct species) of cichlids which includes convicts and pink devils. yet a convict cichlid for example won't be able to breed with a stay bearer like a molly or guppy. Their body factors dont paintings mutually. And different fish mixtures mating might want to matter upon what they mandatory to mate and how they produced offspring- nesting, bubble nest, scatter nest, stay bearer, mouth brooder, etc.

Answer 9

They are probably pregnant. Female guppies are pregnant for about 28 days until they give birth. So they may just be prego, not fat. Also they give birth to live fry, they dont lay eggs.

Answer 10

What do you mean? Your question makes no sense to me. First you say they are fat then their stomach is tiny? What exactly is your question I am really confused.