info on breeding feeder guppys ????

Question

want to breed them for my bichir to eat

so am going to get a small 10 gallon with a whisper filter and a small heater tell me the right temperature i need and how to tell when a guppy is preganet and how to tell a male from a female guppy .. how many females to one male ETC..... the basics please

is it hard ??? and is it worth it ??

can i get a 5 or 1 gallon or it hased to be a 10 ?? and when i see fry do i just throw the fry in my bichir tank so he can eat it ??

Answer 1

It's really super simple to breed guppies for food like you want to do, the problem will be that the breeders probably won't produce enough for you to keep two bichir happy. For that you would need a much larger container. I have bred feeders before and used a small kiddie wading pool in the back yard with loads of floating plants and artificial spawning mops. I started it with 10 gravid females and after about 2 months I had more feeders than I knew what to do with. I netter them for any fish that would eat them and even ended up giving some away. So you wouldn't need a container that large, but you see the point, larger will be better and plenty of cover is best too. In a 10 gallon tank I would start with 2-3 heavily females and plenty of artificial spawning mops. Those make it easier to keep the tank clean than live plants. I would use a sponge filter and equip it with a heater. Past that anything else is optional. Change about 50% of the water once a week and feed them basic flake food and you'll get fry every 2-3 weeks. If you can use a larger container or several containers, you can have 10-12 females and get fry at least once a week which would probably keep your bichirs happy. Allowing the fry to grow for a week or two would give them additional size and make them even better meals for the bichir.

A good "trick" when feeding these or any other feeder fish: Feed the feeder fish right before you feed them to your bichirs. That way they have a gut full of fish food and the bichirs will digest that as well and gain from the added nutrition. It's called gut loading btw.

Hope that helps

MM

Answer 2

the male has a beautifully colored fan tail and the female is plain.. you can have more females than males because the too many males on 1 female is well, you know......... and they can have 16 plus babies. Beware they eat their own babies. You need to get plants for the babies to hide in hornswart I think is what kind of plant is best. Keep the temp of the water about 80 and of course the water needs to be treated. Tropical fish flakes for food and you have yourself a setup.Only feed them very little one time a day they have teeny tiny tummies and even though the food container says 2 x a day thats is too much. Very little food is all they need....You don't have to change 50% of the water weekly. I have had the same fish for 5 years and I clean the tank (20%) water change monthly and you can have an average of 1 fish per gallon of water. Not including the babies..If live plants are too messy then use fake but make sure there is plenty places for the babies to hide. when you clean the tank get a tube to suck the bottom of the tank where the feces is so you have less water to change.You will do fine.. Go for it. I did some checking for you and I made some changes so that this is accurate...by the way it was rude of evelyn to thumbs down everyones answer! its Q&A for crying outloud...lol good luck

Answer 3

Jack Dempseys & Oscars are insectivores. Live fish would only be considered a very occasional treat, once or twice a month max, they are not suitable for a staple diet. Instead they should be fed things like brine shrimp and daphnia when small as well as blanched veges and high quality cichlid pellets, moving up to earthworms, crickets and wingless fruit flies when adult. Breeding Guppies as feeders just isn't worth your while as the fish you have are not piscavores. Not to mention that Guppies can be harmful if fed as a staple food!

Answer 4

The problem you have is that its 30 days before they give birth and then at best 2 months before they are a good edible size and then they are GONE in 10 seconds.
although breeding them isn't hard you just aren't ever going to get enough for all the effort that it is going to take.
the 10 gallon will work as a holding tank but it is just not big enough to try raising enough
hope this helps

Answer 5

if u can make large ponds without any aeration or heater,but with plenty of live plants where fry can hide and save them being eaten by adults,u will have good numbers of guppies to feed.in tank it will take more time to have them breed and get good amount of fishes.also adult guppies are good food compared to fry.

Answer 6

MM is right, for the other question nobody really answered, the best breeding temperature for guppies lies between 82-84 degrees


Hope that helps
Good luck


EB