Calling all guppy breeders!!!?

Question

Okay, I have a few questions about raising guppy fry. I breed guppies, and I have decided to keep the babies in my main tank, so I have some questions about that...

1. How will my guppy fry be able to find their food that I give them in such a large tank?

2. Should I feed them liquid food or powdered food? Which is easier for them to find?

3. What can I put over the filter to stop them from being sucked in? Or do they just avoid the filter completely?

4. Should I just use my old 1 gallon plastic tank to raise the fry? Or is my 20 gallon tank with the adults okay?

Someone PLEASE answer!!!!

Answer 1

1. if you have live plants then they can pick foods of it when they are in hiding, i would separate them into a 2.5 gallon tank until they get big enough to notice in a large tank
2. powdered food will work better than liquid food because liquid food will dirty the water, you should try hatching some brine shrimp
3.cut one end off of a pantyhose and attach that to the filter intake
4.a 1 gallon tank would be best since they wont have adults to hide from (you'll have more fry in the end this way) wait until their large enough (several months will do)

Answer 2

OK,here's the deal,It's best to have a separate rearing tank for your fry,actually several would be even better. This is because unless you are just raising feeder guppies,you will need to separate the sexes as soon as you can identify them. Otherwise you just get a genetic Mish-mash of the fastest maturing fish. This eliminates the chances of finding and isolating the real quality fish.
As far as filters for fry tanks the best are well seasoned(cycled) sponge filters not only are the safe,but the fry will "graze" on the food that's drawn to the filter between feeding.
The best foods for fry are live foods,(baby brine shrimp,micro-worms,vinegar eels,etc.).
The rearing tank should be at least a twenty gallon also. The isolation tanks could be tens,but you will find that as your desire better and better quality fish you will need many more isolation tanks,guppy breeding can get out of hand,but it can also be very rewarding and satisfying.

Answer 3

Provide lots of hiding spaces for your fry. Like floating plants and such. If you provide hiding places for your fry then you wouldn't have to move them. When I raised bettas I feed them baby brine shrimp and microsporia.Some of the family pet stores you can get kits to make this live food. Live food is more enticing to the young fry then the flake stuff. They also have so sort of paste food you can give them and of course they do make fry fish flake food you can get too.

When I raised betta fry I had them in a separate tank and used a sponge filter instead of the over the back kind . Which you can use if you are worried of losing them to your filter but when I had mollie babies I left the current filters in the tank. Wish you luck. Just remember that if you are successful with keeping fry to adulthood that those babies will reproduce too. Leaving your tank full of guppies that are multiplying exponentially.