My guppy had 123 BABY'S! ( fry )! HELP?

Question

hi! My beautiful guppy had 123 babys ( fry ) yesterday and they are all so small! I don't think that I can take care or even keep all of them when they grow into beautiful adults! What should I do and how much should I feed all them! It was the first time that I have ever had or even seen baby guppies and I am not so sure what to do! PLEASE HELP! thankyou!

I put them in a seperate 5 gallon breeding tank and so they will not get eaten by any other fish and I care about pets ( even fishes ) a lot so I wouldn't want the pour things to get eaten

by the way... thankyou for your great ideas! well except for heidi K why would you ever want to eat baby fry? anyways thankyou to all of ya!

Oh and It has a sponge filter which it under gravel so It looks like they will not get sucked up

Answer 1

They won't all survive, don't worry. They have so many with this in mind. However, to make sure that you don't end up with a bunch of fishies, take several of them (more than you want to take care of because many of them will die) and keep them in a fine net in the corner of the tank or put them in their own bowl. This is because mommy will probably eat them otherwise. Fish aren't the most nurturing or maternal of creatures and she will probably forget they are even hers soon. Let the babies in the net or other tank grow to be a bit bigger and then you can move them in together when they no longer look like mommy fish food sized. As for the rest, they may make it, but like I said, the mom will probably eat them (don't worry, this is nature in action). If you don't like this idea, move them all into a separate space and then give the extra ones to a pet shop or friends. As for food, ask a pet shop of google it. Good luck!

Answer 2

What size is your tank? It is most likely that the parents or their tankmates (if there are any) will eat some of the fry. If this is a concern for you, you should either keep all males or get some other fish, such as a molly, platy, barb, etc. that will eat the babies. The fish I mentioned generally do a pretty good job of making sure you don't have a population explosion. It may sound cruel, but so is having 100 babies in your fish tank, overloading the biological filter and causing them all to die a slow painful death due to poisoning. I usually just crush up fish flakes very finely to feed to the babies, that usually works well for them. You can also feed them live cultures, but that is a bit more difficult and takes a little time to develop. I feed mine finely crushed up brine shrimp as well. If you want any of the babies to survive, I'd separate them from the parents.

Also, you may want to cover the intake of the filter with clean pantyhose (use new and rinse VERY well, no soap, ot make sure you get chemicals off that may be on them). Better yet, get a sponge filter. If you don't, the babies will get sucked up into the filter. If they die, they will destroy your water quality and kill your other fish.

Answer 3

in case you probably did not be attentive to, guppies will consume their very own infants. i do by no ability remember my guppies having only one fry, and if what you recommend by the "different guppies" is grownup guppies, i could guess there have been initially extra infants than that. There are 2 issues i will think of of that rather artwork for the fry's risk-free practices, like those pretend plastic/genuine floating flowers you may get at a puppy keep. that's a secure hiding place and the fish can somewhat consume at the same time as they disguise. those little decorations like castles and stuff look to artwork too.

Answer 4

Well when my fish have babies I let them have them in the tank and just make sure there are plenty of places for them to hide. Out of a brood of about 40 around 5 will live. Some will die off naturally but you need to face it that you can't keep 100 fish unless you have a HUGE setup. You could try giving some to a fish store whent they get older. Just sprinkle them food and observe how much you shoould feed them by how much they eat in about 3-4 minutes.

Answer 5

well they will get eaten by the other fish most likely unless you have them in a floating plastic container in the top of the aquarium(available at PETCO)

My guppy had babies too and i crumbled a large flake or two of fish food in my fingers for them.
Also, I started with a number somewhere around yours (i forget what) but most of the weaker ones die in the first few days and are eaten by the stronger ones (so sad).

After about a month i only had 8 left but they all grew up strong and healthy in my aquarium.

Answer 6

u can buy fry food for guppies just seperate them from the big fish u will go good if u live in sydney nsw i will buy some of u

Answer 7

That's what guppies do, breed!! Go get yourself a tiger oscar, it's a special fish, he will make sure all the guppies are "taken care of":)

Answer 8

Some of them might die... but when this happened to me i just transferred a bunch into a shallow pond i made in my back yard out of a little plastic sandbox shaped like a turtle. Now they feed themselves on algae and i dont have to worry about them.

Answer 9

Sloppy Joe is correct, get yourself an Oscar, he will take care of the guppys for you. And dont worry, he will eat them whole in one gulp, it wont hurt at all. =)

Answer 10

Offer them to the pet store where you live. You could ask them if they will pay you for them but if worse comes to worse I am sure that they will at least take them off your hands even if they do not pay you. Good luck!