How easy do guppies breed?

Question

I am positively in love with the beautiful colors guppies have. I have always wanted to breed them, but I am unsure if it would even be successful. I was told you have to have a few pairs of males and females in order to make them want to spawn. Or can I just put a male and female together and they have a xxx encounter almost immediatly?

Answer 1

They are incredibly easy to breed ... a couple of pretty males and a host of females and you will have babies in no time.

The interesting thing about them is that they give birth to live young - fascinating to watch :-)

Do get a couple of those mini floating 'tanks' though ... they might give birth to live babies, but they still see them as an interesting snack once the birth is over!

Answer 2

First off, its better if you have more females than males. This way, one female isn't always the one the males always go to. From what i've read, you should always make the assumption that any female you buy could possibly be pregnant, because when guppies are born the males and females are not seperated(usually), therefore increasing the chance of the female to be pregnant when purchased. If you want to breed guppies, you need to make sure you have a few things on hand. Aside from the community tank, you want have a seperate tank (it doesn't necessarily have to be a 10 gallon for example, it can be something like a 2.5 gallon, which is what i have for my guppy at the moment.) You will also want to have a good amount of plants on hand, so that the fry (that's the guppy babies) will have plenty of places to hide when they are born, and have some fry fish food on hand for the babies. As soon as the mother has the fry, you need to remove the female because she will eat her fry, and leave the fry in a seperate tank. It's also not a bad idea to have another small tank on hand for the female to rest in for 24 hours before releasing her back into the community tank. Be sure to give the female enough food after birth because she will be very hungry. Do not release the fry into the community tank until they are large enough, usually about a month or two. Another good guidline of when to release the fry into the community tank is when they are bigger than the other fish mouths (to reduce the risk of being eaten.)

Answer 3

Get a male and two females, or two males and three females. Put them in a tank with lots of plants (especially plants that float on the top). Make sure the temperature is around 78-80 degrees. That's all there is to it.

Many of the females you get from pet stores are already pregant, so you may have babies before you know it. Some will get eaten, or sucked up the filter, but if they have enough places to hide, you should have tons before too long.

Feed the babies crushed flakes. Take a pinch of food and roll it between your fingers until it's almost a powder. That way the food will fit into their little mouths.

Have fun!

Answer 4

i think of your Dad is fibbing. the reason i don't have faith he bred guppies is that guppies do not lay eggs. they provide delivery to stay, swimming babies. each physique who had ever bred guppies might understand this. To get returned to your question, nevertheless, guppies are fairly elementary to reproduce on the newbie point, yet breeding championship, coach-high quality guppies is unquestionably particularly complicated. of direction, in case you get in common terms "male guppies with the long, extensive, purple tails," you will not get something, for the reason which you opt for the two adult males and ladies human beings to produce youthful. the different impediment is that your different fish contained in the tank (the cories, the zebra, or perhaps the different grownup guppies) are possibly to consume any newborn guppy fry, so which you'll be waiting to get rid of the youngsters to a distinctive tank as quickly as they're born. as a rely of actuality, zebra danios are in all likelihood even much less complicated to reproduce than guppies. Zebra danios (and all danios) are egg-layers and that they scatter eggs everywhere, which hatch in 2 or 3 days if the danios do not consume their eggs first. The fry are extremely elementary to enhance, besides the actuality that they choose very small meals in the beginning up.

Answer 5

I think the phrase, "He just had to look at me and I got pregnant," says it all.

The trying, when it comes to guppies, is to try to get them NOT to breed. Females can retain sperm and get themselves continuously pregnant for 6 months after she first mated with a male. A single, lone female can continue to have fry in the complete absence of a male.

Are you sure you want to consciously breed guppies? Do you have a plan, a good plan, on what you intend to do with all of them? Because you will have a ton.

Answer 6

I started with 2 males and 3 females a couple years ago...I couldnt even count how many i have now...Just make sure u get a plant for them to hide in and feed well just dont over feed!

Answer 7

lets just say this my husband and i bought 3 guppies from walmart thinking they were all males well there was a female in there with a long tail and now we have over 40 without trying to save them (not getting babies out of tank due to adults eating them) all we have is breading grass and we have a ton of them they are super easy to bread we accidentally got into it hope that helps

Answer 8

really easy but you need to get a few females and males, I find you have to turn the filter off or provide a very leafy low current place for them to grow some. Breeding mollies and platties is just as easy.

Answer 9

yes very easy to breed, make sure you have lots of plant for baby's.to hide guppies are live bearers not egg layers.get one male x three females

Answer 10

Super easy. Get a couple of males, and several females. Make sure you have place for fry to hide.