if my guupies do have fry give me all the info that you have?

Question

please i need info becuz im not coming home to a bunch af big guppies with there belly full of baby fry i would so freak out i need alot and you ppl onley have 2 days please please i need help

Answer 1

With guppies it's not a matter of IF you will have fry, it's a matter of WHEN you will have fry.

Guppies, like many other livebearers will eat their own young if left in the tank together. The other adults in the tank will also eat the babies unless you take steps to protect them. In a very heavily planted tank (live or fake plants) some of the babies will escape the parents and grow up. You can also get breeder nets to hang in the tank and this will protect the babies for several days, but they will be so crowded that most will die fairly quickly in such a confined space. If you are interested in breeding guppies, you will need a second tank for the babies. I breed guppies on a regular basis and here's the system that works for me.

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 worms, mosquito larvae, brine shrimp are all good. For the babies you need baby brine shrimp to feed for the first few days and some crushed flake to start mixing in after that. Yes, you can just crush the flake you 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 separate them. Most serious breeders end up using two tanks, so you might want to plan on that in the future. Separate 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 looking 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

Wow. I have done alot of research on this because I was planning on getting a guppy not too long ago. I would suggest buying g a breeding box. (You can buy them at most local pet stores.) Breeding boxes are small containers that the female pregnant guppy stays in when just about ready to give birth. If you put her in there too early, she could die from stress. You should put plants in there and make her feel like she is in her other tank. When she gives birth, the fry will go down to the bottom of the container where the female cannot get/eat them. Or, instead of the breeding box, you may also let her have the fry in the tank, but right after, remove either the fry or other guppies and fish from the tank because most likely the fry will be eaten if you don't. Feed the fry the regular food, but if you have flakes or bigger foods, I would consider to breack them up in littler pieces so that the fry can eat better and easier. Guppies usually don't have a ton of fry, but they do have many. I read online that They can have fry from 1 to 2 months. The females can also store the sperm from the male guppies to fertilze fry later. Well, I think that is all the info I have for you.

Answer 3

You can buy floating aquarium plants for the guppy fry to hide in until you get home. There are small holding tanks that attach to larger aquariums on the inside that you could put the pregnant guppy in, but you would still need to put floating plants in that for the fry to hide from the adult guppy that's in the holding tank with them.

Answer 4

If you plan on keeping them you will need a nursing tank...1 that just floats in your main tank, you can get it from a pet shop. then when you think she is ready to explode place her in that small nursing tank and within 2hrs she will relax and if shes ready she will have them. they are very small and she can have quite a few 6-15 babies, once you think she is done place her back in the main tank so she wont eat the babies.
I used the yoke in a hard boiled egg to feed them it breaks up small enough 4 them to eat.

Answer 5

there is not any particular selection to assert what proportion women individuals and how many adult males. Sorry. you have gotten the skill to intercourse them at approximately 2 months or so. particular it incredibly is possiable to pass breed guppies and platy and or mollies. i does not although save hopes that this fish will stay to tell the story to maturaty although. that is been executed yet with little fulfillment. they are cool looing inspite of the shown fact that. i'm hoping he does nicely.

Answer 6

Get a cat. They love guppies.

Answer 7

get more food