Am I a Failure

[Lezlee]

Okay, last night I had 11 guppy fry, when I got up this morning I could only see 2. I know these things happen, but I am still nevertheless gutted. I do have some questions though if anyone can help. Should I be feeding the pregnant females with Live food (does this make them go after the fry). How often should I feed them. However, I still have 4 females that are heavily pregnant, so if I have some more fry should I cut my losses and put the females back into the big tank, even though some of them may be pregnant. Please help!!!

 

[WILDER]

You can't save them all you will be overun with fry, let them take their chances in the main tank, I don't feed live foods as they can fetch desease into the tank,livebearers will eat their fry anyway it's what they do in the wild, feed 3 times daily on a varied diet.

 

[sylvia]

Some live foods, such as brine shrimp, are pretty much disease-free. Blood worms and microworms are also usualy safe. Feeder fish and tubifex worms are the real killers IMO.