what equitment will i need to breed gupyys.plz help.?

Question

i relly need your help on this for i am getting some tomrrow
thanks for your time.
krn

Answer 1

Breeding guppies really is just as simple as most people say it is but if you really want to be serious about it there are a few considerations.

Tank requirements: You need to have two tanks at least 10 gallons in size. The first one should be cycled and all settled ready for your new guppies. The second should be filled with water and have a sponge filter running. It should also gave a heater and lots of hiding places for the babies. Set up both tanks and keep the temperature in both about 74-78 F, guppies will do well in that range. pH, hardness and other water conditions are not very important to guppies. They tolerant a very wide range of parameters.

Feeding: For the adults you need to feed a good basic flake food as well as the occasional treat of frozen foods. Buy a couple of them to swap between, blood wroms, mosquito larvae, brine shrimp are all good. For the babies you need baby brine shrimo to feed for the first few days and some cruches flake to start mixing in after that. Yes, you can just crush the flake yuou use for the adults.

The Fish: Get 1 male for every 2-3 females. No need to get many, after all you expect to breed plenty! Most you find at pet stores will already be pregnant so if you are really serious about getting just the right color you will need to by from a serious breeder or be prepared to work at it a while.

The mating: Just put them together and they will do the rest.

Once the female is very gravid (pregnant) move her to the empty tank and leave her there until she has the babies. Once she has them you can more her back to the main tank. Feed the babies fairly often, 4-5 times a day isn't too often and change 40 - 50% of the tank water every 2-3 days. The larger the babies get the more often you will have to change water until the babies are adults.

Raising the babies: Feed the babies fairly often, 4-5 times a day isn't too often and change 40 - 50% of the tank water every 2-3 days. The larger the babies get the more often you will have to change water until the babies are adults. Install a tank divider in the baby tank as soon as possible and once you can tell males from females start to seperate them. Most serious breeders end up using two tanks, so you might want to plan on that in the future. Seperate them as soon as possible! Also do not give up on the water changes! They are critical for proper growth! I cannot stress this enough!

Culling: Culling is removing undesirable fish from your stock. Remove any deformed fish you see as soon as you see them. It's not uncommon to have a few deformed fish. Humanely kill these as you certainly don't want them breeding. Once the babies are nearly grown you will be able to pick out the best looking male and best lookig females. This is where color choice comes in. You will most likely have fish of two or three different colors. Return you original fish and the extra babies to the pet store or donate them to another fish keeper, to a school, whatever. Place your best male and three best females in the now empty main tank. and let them do what come naturally. Then you will start the whole process over.

While you are raising the babies, you will have babies from one of the other females too if not both of them. You will have to choose, set up another tank for them or leave them with the adults to do as well as they can. Your call. As you can see, you could end up with tanks all over the house in no time at all, so be aware you can't keep them all! LOL

After a few generations you will need to add fresh breeding stock to your line. Try to find a really good looking male that fits your colors and breed him to some of your females for fresh genes in the line. Doing this every so often will improve your fish and prevent problems from too much inbreeding. Inbreeding fixes traits in the line, both good traits and bad traits, so bring in new stock from time to time.

If you really fall in love with guppy breeding you will really want to be a member of the IFGA (International Fancy Guppy Association). They can teach you so much more than this basic over view and the members are a great source of really superior breeding stock. You can find their website online.

Hope this helps a little and good luck with your breeding efforts!

MM

Answer 2

Here are a list of sites...I hope your not just a child infering that from your text.

http://guppyplace.tripod.com/Breeding.html
http://www.aquariacentral.com/articles/guppies.shtml

I've bred a bunch of guppies and it's not as hard as you think. Basically you need to have some structure in the tank where the fry (babies) can hide from mom and dad after they are born. Some dense plants, or something that they can swim into or underneath will be fine. As they grow they will be more self sufficient. When I feed them I use flake for the big ones and drop an algae or veg. wafer, crumbled, into the tank for the small ones so they can feed at the bottom as the large ones feed at the top. Eventually they will all feed at the top as they grow, but this just gives the fry a better chance without becoming a meal for the bigger fish. If you have a secondary tank it might help to transfer some of the fry there if your existing tank gets too crowded. Hope this info helps.

Answer 3

Guppy Breeding

How to breed guppies?

To start breeding guppies, you need at least a ten gallon tank (the larger the tank, the easier it is to cycle and maintain), some kind of air pump, guppy food, some type of sponge filter, heater, thermometer, and last but not least guppies. You should buy a male and two females (what we call a trio). A quality breeding stock usually only can be found by a reputable guppy breeder. The guppies found in pet stores are usually commercially raised perhaps in Singapore or are the culls from breeders' tanks. They are not specifically bred to be show quality; however these are suitable for the beginner. Before you buy your trio, you should have had your tank filled with water; your air pump and the sponge filter running for at least twenty-four hours though it is best to wait until the tank is cycled before adding your fish. Click here to learn about cycling. A water conditioner will be essential for those times when you need to do a partial water change. Water conditioners typically take the chlorine and chloramines (chemicals the water company uses to kill bacteria in tap water) out of the water to make it fish safe.

Carefully bring your trio into your tank. Take your time as fast changes in water condition causes stress for your guppies, and then they are not in a good mood to breed...When breeding guppies it is preferable to slowly raise the water temperature to 23-28°C (74-82°F). When guppies mate the male will approach the female from below and extend his gonopodium.

The gestation period is often about 28 days, but it can range from 21 to roughly 40, however guppies can carry sperm for up to three months. This is dependent on a number of factors such as temperature and genetics. The female can give birth to between 20-200 fry at a time. The pregnant female has a round belly and also a dark pregnancy mark behind the anal fin (this is called the gravid spot). Take care not to move the pregnant female too near her due date as the stress can cause her to absorb the developing babies or to give birth prematurely. It's a good idea to isolate the pregnant female in a breeding tank, as the female (or other fishes in a community tank) may eat the new born babies. A breeding tank should be heavily planted with live or fake plants to allow the fry to escape from their mother. A breeding trap is a small plastic container that has a plate with small openings (too small for the mother to swim through) separates mother and babies. Breeding traps are debatable on effectiveness and may stress your fish too much. A separate breeding tank is recommended.

A few hours after being born the young fry will eat everything they can manage. You can feed the young fry hatched brine shrimp, powdered or liquid food. The food given must be tiny enough. If not it will be wasted and pollute the tank. You can give live food or freeze dried food.

Water changes are essential to growing fry. You should change around 25 percent of the water about twice a week. Move your fry to a larger tank if they outgrow the tank. Sometimes the fry can be sexed after one week by experienced breeders. However, it often will take up to one month or even longer to sex the fry. When the males' anal fin becomes pointed you have to separate males and females.

Answer 4

Lots of good advice already given so I will not repeat it here. One money saving tip for you, instead of buying a separate tank for the fry, just go down to your local glazier, glass merchants, and purchase a sheet of glass of appropriate size to enable you to divide your existing tank. 1/3 for the new fry, 2/3 for the existing happy couple. You may need to buy an extra aerator if the fit is very good, but that is all. The glass can simply be propped up in the tank, so buy it slightly wider than you need and high enough to ensure the adult fish can't hop/swim over the top.

Answer 5

a breeding tank either a separate tank or at the pet shops ask and they can give you a tank that floats at the top of the tank the fish are already in, hot water ,privacy, 1 male 2 females (for every one male to females) plants and that's it.

Answer 6

the precise equipment needed for breeding guppies is as follows:

1) a tank
2) a male guppy
3) a few female guppies
4) water.
5) tank decoration to suit.

then you cannot go wrong.

Answer 7

A mummy Guppy and a Daddy Guppy should do it, as long as they get on OK!