How do you personally breed guppies?

Question

What kind of techniques have you personally used to breed guppies? How many tanks do you have and how are the organized? why do you breed guppies? Any true guppy breeders please feel free to let me know anything you think will help me with my guppies. ty.

I have already done plenty of research. I don't need to know how to breed I would like to know personal stories of successful breeders; how they begin and alter their strains; etc.

Answer 1

i choose to breed gupies because if you breed the smaller ones, they can't eat the babies. They breed fast, are energetic, the babies are doing great and are fun to watch

i find that they are easier to see growth, i mean i also have just about equal amounts of platty fry, and i can see the guppies growing quicker...but don't get me wrong, the platty fry are growing too

well as i have said my "technique" is choose the smaller energetic females, so they don't eat the babies....energetic because that means they are usually younger and more eager ot breed.

i only have 1 tank and a breeding net/tank, but i don't think that the breeding net is nessacary if you choose the right fish, my platties also don't eat the babies even though the 4 of them are quite cabable of eatting all of them...

instead of putting the female in the breeding net, i put in alot of rocks, that i have soaked in hot water for about 2 days, that have alot of small crevises that the parents can't fit in

i also have floating plants...that aren't stuck into the gravel but just hanging around up the top. I have baby tears...they have high foliage and grow fast.

i don't particualalry like putting the feamle in the breeding net as they get stressed and have a risk of dying...

i just let her have the babies and then catch as many possible, but if they don';t pay attention to them, i just let them stay in the main tank. I think that they should get used to the main tank...if they raen't getting hasseled. And i guess that is was is good about gupies, they don't eat the babies as much as othe rlive bearers, especially swordtails do

i think the only real let down is that they sometimes die after they give birth

Answer 2

I never really wanted to breed them at first but I saw them in the pet store and decided to add them to my tank. I've got alot of fish in that tank but they all seemed fine when they were little, but when the other fish grew larger than the guppies they started dying off one at a time. Nothing I did helped them so as a last resort I took the final pair out and an extra male and added them to a goldfish tank with a heater. Since then they have been fine....I think they must have suffered from stress in the bigger tank. Although the goldfish are bigger than the guppies they seem much happier. I oonly take out a few of the babies and put them into a breading tank stuck to the side of the tank. I don't bother taking the mums out coz I don't really want too many. Got 5 generations in the breading tank at the moment. about 3 of each.

Answer 3

All my guppys live in my community tank. When i see that any of my females are about to pop :P i put them into a floating breeding tank. All you have to do then is take her out once she gives birth and then stick some food in for the fry for about 2-3months before i release them back into the main tank.

If you put them in a container of another tank its easy for ammonia to build up and kill off everything. This way they still have heated, filtered, aerated water and are already in the same water they will be released into when they are the right size.

This is just the least stressful way in my opinion :P
And the most natural really as i do not select which males and females should breed with each other

Answer 4

ive been breeding guppies for about 2-3 years now. i use a breeder box that floats in the tank. i keep my adults in a community tank with other fish and when the females are about to give birth i put them in the breeder. once they are finished i move the babies in to a smaller tank in my room and feed them about 3 times a day. once ther are big enough to servive i put them in with the adults.
(but im giving away my baby tank so i will keep the babies in the breeder untill they can go in with the adults)
once they are allmost the same size as the adults i take them up to the fish shop and swap them for stor credit, so this way the fish pay for there own food, cleaning chemicals and water tests.

Answer 5

i used to have guppies and have breed them successfully. the key is the must be in a tank were there are only guppies to start with as larger fish will eat them when the are very young. you must have plenty of foliage in the tank for the internal stages of life ti remain undetected to avoid cannibalism.
you must also have a large selection of male and female fish in the same tank to encourage breeding.
you will find plenty of info on the net under guppy this should be your first port of call as it will go into optimum temperature and depth of water etc.

Answer 6

I just always let them be in the main tank, which has lots of life plants for the fry to hide
i always had 5-15 survivors witht his method
whereas i had usually only about 5 max suvivors with the net or breederbox method
it stresseds the female only out, and can couse abbortions





Hope that helps
Good luck


EB