How to get fancy guppies to breed?

Question

I've been wondering how do i get my fancy guppies to breed?
I decided to try breeding fancy guppies about six onths ago. So i read up on them and it said that if you were to breed the you have to buy two females and one male or tfour females and two males and so forth. So i went to my local wal mart and bought two females and one male, a bredding net, and some breeding grass. But turns out the lady at the store got me two males and one female. and i guess the two males got agressive over the one female and the larger male killed the other male. so i was left with one female and one male. so i decided to breed them anyways. i left the female and male in the breeding net for bout two days and took the male out. and i waited for bout two weeks and the female started to get fater and had the dark black spots in her stomach[the babies] . and theen nothing happened. andthe same things been happening for bout six months ago. what should i do to get s successful breeding outta her?

Answer 1

I breed guppies for a while and here is what I did:

Get at least a 10 gallon tank and fill it full of plants. The more dense the plants, the better because it gives the fry plenty of places to hide. You can also allow some of the plants to float. doing so will allow the fry to hide near the surface where they can get to the food without being attacked by the adults.

When you get your fish, get at least 3 females for every 1 male. You will get better stock if you purchase them from a store that specializes in fish, but if there aren't any near you, just do your best to choose fish that appear very healthy. If your only option is someplace like Wal-mart, call the store and find out what day they get their live fish shipment. Purchase your fish either that day or the day after. The longer they stay at the store, the greater the risk of developing diseases.

My attempts at using breeding nets and traps were disastrous. Not only did most of the fry die, but my female guppies didn't do well either. I finally stopped using them and just let the females give birth in the larger tank. If you have enough plants, the fry will have plenty of places to hide and will survive just fine.

Doing what I have described seemed to work extremely well for me. I had more baby guppies than I knew what to do with!

Answer 2

First of all, you don't put your guppy pair in a breeding net

2.) the gestation period of livebearers is 28 days and not 2 weeks

3.) you're suppose to keep 1 male to 2-3 females to have successfull breeding and no stressed out females

4.) your guppies will breed in your regular tank without any help from you, putting them in a breeding net will stress the female out and cause abortion, that is what most likely happened to yours

5.) Get real plants for your tank, that way your fry have hiding spots from the adults

6.) personally I don't put any of my females in a breeding net anymore, because 5-10 fry will always survive in the main tank if they have enough hidingspots

7.) also check your ammonia levels, they have to be at 0, if not you have to do partial waterchanges



Hope that helps
Good luck



EB

Answer 3

Get another female, even 2, so the one you have isn't constantly chased by the male.

IMO, you don't need the net. The idea of the net is for someplace for the fry to go to be safe from being eaten by the adults. Most likely, the female is dropping them, and then eating them before you notice. They have nowhere to hide if she's in there with them and they are pretty small to be seen in a net.

That's why a trap was recommended. It has a grate for eggs to fall thru. I guess the fry could go down there and hide til you notice them and remove the female.

IMO, Java Moss in your tank will do just as well or better.
Plenty of live plants, too and decorations, to break up sightlines, will help the fry have places to hide. You could then, if you want, try to catch them and put them in the net. Or just leave them. Most of them should survive.

Answer 4

don't put them into the breeding net just get a bunch of them (not from wal mart because al there fish are sick and full of diseases) and put them into a tank doesn't matter about the 1 male per 2 females that al a bunch of crap just put about 2 to 3 males and 2 to 3 females into a 15 gallon tank and when you see the female gravid spot getting really dark then watch her and check her everyday check mainly her gravid spot to see if you can see little eye type things when you see that put her into the breeding net and she should give birth about 48 hours later then feed the bays finely crushed up flakes and feed them to them four times a day

Answer 5

to be a better breeder, start with better stock.

you seem to know what your doing, but another way to breed is get a 10 gallon, with alot of live plants and get 2 males with 6 females and a sponge filter. Allow them to stay together, and around every 28 days take a female that is really pregnant out and into a breeding trap.

Remember that every 28-35 days, female livebearers will usually drop their fry.


Also, dont try to hard, you really cant force them, but when you least expect it, you will find babies. Almost every morning i wake up and find babies in my breeding traps.

Answer 6

the two varieties may be flow bred. save the aquarium packed with lots of furry flowers, the two genuine or man made, that the recent borns can conceal in. Guppies undergo stay youthful and could eat them if given the prospect. subsequently, the greater places for them to conceal, the better the probability that some will survive to alter into adults. appropriate temp for breeding guppies is approximately seventy 4 stages Fahrenheit.