Will my guppy's fry survive in this tank. Im too lazy to seperate them. I know one of my guppy is gonna 'pop' real soon. So, will i have more pretty baby fishes, or real delicious treats for the other fishes? Im a noob, so after watching the video, pls teach me more things i should know about my tank and fishes.
Video available on high streaming at yahoo vids:
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=719176
2007-06-27 06:42:49 · 5 answers · asked by rishi b 3 in Pets ➔ Fish
Nice shot, wish we'd get more details about a tank with other questions. Odds are the fry are going to be susceptible to being eaten by the guppies themselves, and possibly the neons when they are very young. If the fish can get them in thier mouth, they will be looked at as a food source in most cases. Guppies can drop out fry at many different times as well, and your batch maybe come over a period of time. The thing I see here is two things. Your population looks pretty high already for the tank size, you probably don't want additions to the bio load, and two there is only a couple hiding places in there for the fry I could see, and it looks like those area's are already being scoped out by the current occupants, so if you have any survive, I'd expect only a handful, like 3-5 of them. Mine did the same as well. I had a batch of like 12 fry I was able to isolate and for some reason or another, the majority of them died off, and I've only got 4 left out of the original batch. I don't mind this and hope the female spawns out more, as it may sound cruel, but if they do, I have a renewing source of food for my Datnoid.
JV
2007-06-27 06:55:23 · answer #1 · answered by I am Legend 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
You might get lucky and one will not be eaten if you have alot of plant covering floating in the tank, otherwise everyone will just eat them. My guppies are always prego and having babies, if I happen to see a baby I'll put it in the breeder box in the tank til it's big enough to survive. I got about 6 in the box right now. It's no work at all.
2007-06-27 08:56:05 · answer #2 · answered by laurie aka petsrus6 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Great, youd added some plants, some of them are going to servive for sure and I think your swordtail is pregnant as well(i'm not sure about that though, saw it only shorthly)
The fry can hide pretty good in you plants now
Get "First Bites" for you fry though (it's powder food just for fry, but be careful when feeding them, the powder gets out of the bag really quick)
I like your tank a lot, it is really clean, seems like you're taking good care of them, even that you like to play videogames :-)
Congrats
EB
2007-06-27 06:54:36 · answer #3 · answered by Kribensis lover 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
If your really want your fry to survive, then get more plants and hiding places for them to hide.
2007-06-27 06:57:55 · answer #4 · answered by Chris 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
no it wont survive in the same tank with the other fish at all, it's yopur choice keep it or kill it?
2007-06-27 06:48:28 · answer #5 · answered by always right 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋