I have a 29g established tank I have 1 pleco, 11 neon tetras, 2 male guppies about 7months old each and 4 female gupies one 7months the other 3 about three months. In my tank I have three plants that are kinda bushy and one big fake bush. My temp is about 75 degrees F. I change about 25% of the water a week just sucking alittle dibrie off the bottom of the tank becasue my 5 ghost shimp so a fine job at keeping the bottom clean. I have the tank lights on for about 14 hrs a day. I feed them about 2-3 flake food and everyother day I give them frozen brine shrimp.
Even with all this I have only seen 1 baby guppy in the last 4 months. So someone please tell me what I'm missing, or doing wrong, or if I need to change somthing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated I'm only 16 so there's alot im sure that I still need to learn.
2007-04-07 18:06:12 · 9 answers · asked by Still learning 3 in Pets ➔ Fish
Ok 2 things. 1 Try to reduce the daily amount of lighting. and 2 You could have gotten a bad batch of males. It is possible to get a batch of sterile fish. Try buying a few more males and see if that helps any.
Oh you also may want to have your water tested at a pet store. It could be something in the water.
Good Luck
Lucke
2007-04-07 18:37:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are breeding, of that you can be sure. If guppies do nothing else they will breed. The problem you are having is that the fish in the tank ( including the guppies) are eating the babies as soon as they are born. If you want to save the babies you should get another tank to move pregnant females guppies into until they have the babies.
I would recommend you reduce the lighting to about 10-12 hours a day. Other than that is sounds like you are off to a great start. Feel free to write if I can help.
MM
2007-04-07 18:13:25 · answer #2 · answered by magicman116 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hello,
I don't know a whole lot about keeping freshwater, as I am a saltwater enthuiast.
It looks like your doing good!
The only thing I can advise is your day/night cycle. No where in the whole world do they have constant 14 hours of sunlight. I was going to give my clownfish 14 hours but I read an article where they say too much "day" is bad. Most fish like the nighttime because they have a chance to forage and to sleep, which is most important. Personally, I leave my lights on for 10-11 hours each day.
As for the breeding: Who wants babies? Were you planning on selling them? As I said, I am not a freshwater expert, but babies are work! Do you want to spend all of your time raising them when you can only get 50 cents for the babies?
I dunno. Fresh is not my style. I guess I don't see the need to have more fish in a tank just because. Your tank seems pretty cool how it is.
2007-04-07 18:23:27 · answer #3 · answered by Chris C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I were you, and I did, start a devoted 10 gallon breeding tank just for the guppies and place thick floating or bottom cover for the fry to hide when dropped. I have java moss and float anacharis for them to hide. I now have 3 guppy tanks and counting. Good Luck..><>:)
2007-04-07 18:48:46 · answer #4 · answered by PaPa Norm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pass the Betta - he'd get bullied and outcompeted to foodstuff via the faster shoaling fish. Angel is truly an iffy one, your tank desires to be a minimum of 18" tall for a type of (from the authentic of the substrate to the water line), 29g generally at the instant are not the suited dimensions. Angels could kill a Betta too. Otos are happier in lots extra desirable communities too. i could circulate Danios OR Tetras - Danios are little mentalists, very speedy fish that have no issue stealing foodstuff from different fish's mouths. Have a think of roughly what fish is the "could desire to have" for you and paintings your stocking around that. undergo in strategies speedy swimming and sluggish swimming do not blend, nor do fin nippy and long finned!
2016-10-02 08:48:06 · answer #5 · answered by barksdale 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your guppies are probably breeding, but the tetras and especially the shrimp are eating them. Put the guppies in their own tank with plenty of surface plant cover.
2007-04-07 18:12:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need buy about 6 more females and they sould breed and when they do or before they do buy a breeders net for the fry.
2007-04-08 07:51:45 · answer #7 · answered by michael8k2001 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like someone is eating the eggs
2007-04-07 18:10:16 · answer #8 · answered by BajaRick 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the baby been eaten.
2007-04-07 19:40:13 · answer #9 · answered by Brian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋