She just had almost 30 fry! That is the most I have ever gotten or heard of! How many fry does a guppy usually have. For me it's been 2-12, but 30!?!
I am over whelmed! I have two 10 gallon tanks and now I'm going to have about 48 Guppies in all, plus theyre breeding again! I'm going to get a large tank, possibly 55+ so right now we're searching ebay and the newspaper!
P.S. whats strange about her fry is that it seems some of them are older, or more developed and mature than the others, like a month or a few weeks older, yet they were born at the same time. Can a guppy get MORE pregnant while it is already currently pregnant and then the first batch continue to develop inside their mother the same they would outside?
NO JOKE! She really did have almost 30! I counted 28 while moving them to the nursery, but there's more hiding in the breeding area for adults and guppies starting to sexually mature.
2007-06-18 18:30:13 · 6 answers · asked by Morgan 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
Since people are insisting that the older the fish, the larger her brood, how can I tell how old they are? Obviously she's old(er), but this is the first time I've had her bred. My first fish had a brood of 4, then my second had 6, then my first had 2, and FINALLY after about a 3 month pregnancy, this guppy had 30! wow! I've been bombed by babies!
2007-06-18 19:30:15 · update #1
The older the female, the larger she is, and the larger her brood.
A young female, (4-6 mths old) will probably only drop 1 or 2 fry. The older ones, as you've seen, can drop huge broods.... sometimes even over 50.
2007-06-18 19:23:50 · answer #1 · answered by Contemplate Silence 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No its not unusual,just provide lots of hiding places they also eat them.They can hold them even though its normal to birth every 28 to 32 days,they can have up to 65 at one time in the wild,it would be around 300,of which less than 5 survive to breed.
2007-06-18 19:14:23 · answer #2 · answered by peppersham 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thirty is a pretty large brood but by no means unusual. guppies can have as few as one or two or as many as fifty young, depends on the size and age of the mom.
2007-06-18 18:38:23 · answer #3 · answered by Mimik 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I found a really great site, check it out
http://guppyplace.tripod.com/Breeding.html
And no it's not uncommon to have so many babies from a guppy, this site explains it further
Good luck and congrats
2007-06-18 20:51:39 · answer #4 · answered by Kribensis lover 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its gonna get more and more the mor eyou let her breed. lol. the more experience females have the higher amount of frys she'll have. start selling them. lol. they breed like crazy...
2007-06-18 18:41:15 · answer #5 · answered by grs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes fish can amaze you.
2007-06-18 18:48:41 · answer #6 · answered by babcnvc 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋