breeding guppies?

Question

what do i need to know about breeding guppies such as water changes and temp and other stuff. Is there such thing as having to much gravel in tour tank. my tank is 30 gallons. Also does any one how much baking soad is needed to raise the ph.

Answer 1

you will not need to raise the ph, if your using tap water + and water conditioner.

Guppies will breed very easily but it is what you do that will determine the result of the fry.

For breeding, if your serious, you will need to get a spare 10 gallon with a ton of live plants.

Get a group of 3 males and 6 female guppies, add them to the 30 gallon, and allow them to do there thing.

Female livebearers have the ablity to store sperm so unless you petstore and wholesaler seperate the sexes, when you get a female from a petstore chancs are that it is pregnant.

So even if your males die, you will not need to go and get another male as the females can store sperm and drop fry for about 2-3 times without a male.

Anyway, female livebearers are on cycles, they will usually release fry every 28-34 days, BUT it will vary from fish to fish.

When you see the female is hiding for cover, swimming with its tail alittle down, and starting to wiggle, that usually when you move the fish to the 10 gallon, and allow her to release her fry in there.

Then you can move her back into the main tank, but put her in a breeding trap for a day to recover.

Remember that adding stress will cause the fish not to release her fry.

When you have fry in the 10 gallon, they dont require much but you will need a sponge filter. What changes i do by hand with a cup and a spyhon but very slow and carefully.

They will eat hikari first bites, but remember not to feed them too much.

Answer 2

Guppies breed extremely easily. You should have 2-4 females for every male, as the males harass the females a lot. Females can store sperm, and they can give birth 2-3 times more without needing a male. Females generally give birth to 3-100 fry, depending on how healthy and young they are. My female only had 8 babies last time she gave birth. Usually when you buy guppies, you will be told they are pregnant. All my females except for one, were pregnant when I bought them. You will need a breeding net/tank, or more commonly called a fry tank/net. A tank is less ideal, I find, because you have to get the ph and stuff right all over again. A net though, is really ideal, because all you have to do is drop in the tank and clip it to the wall. I have a net, and it's extremely useful. Ideally, all you want is a way to not let the parents/other fish to eat the babies. DO NOT put the mother in the net/tank while she's giving birth! That will either kill her, kill her babies, or even worse, kill her and the babies! Don't move her at 2 weeks before she gives birth, as this will damage her immensely! I've done this by accident, but luckily my babies were fine! I think they just came out the wrong way..... Anyways, how much gravel do you have in your tank? You should only have about an inch of gravel in your tank.

Hint: Guppies love live plants!!!!

Hope that helped! Good luck!

Answer 3

Genetics,water chemistry,where to put 20 to 40 small aquariums,how not to mess with the pH,live foods, fish conditioning,how to do very frequent water changes(and still have a life outside of the fish room). This is a partial list of things involved in Guppy breeding,and unless you just want to raise feeder Guppies you've got to find quality breeding stock and learn how to keep the blood lines pure,(hint: It takes many,many tanks.
The best place to start is at the International Fancy Guppy Association and by reading as many books as you can get.
1 1/2 pounds of gravel per gallon is about the right amount.

Answer 4

Just test the water to make sure all levels are safe (0 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 0-10 nitrate)
If the levels are fine, change a few gallons monthly.
Temperature should be 78F
No such thing as too much gravel
Ph can be from 5-9 with guppies (ph swings kill fish, a stable ph at any level is best)

Answer 5

The pregnant female gets fatter and develops a large black spot on her abdomen. Here's a little more on breeding guppies in case you're into it.

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

~ GG

Answer 6

of direction you feed her, until you opt to starve her to dying you will see despite if, that she would be able to the two consume much less or no longer something merely before she supplies start however wish that facilitates good success EB

Answer 7

buy several guppies and put on your aquarium and put 100gm or 3 tablespoon of rock salt that will do it.

Answer 8

feed them a lot