Breeding Guppies Help?

[meehan09]

Hi,

I have several pairs of breeding guppies.

I just want to know a few details about it.

If they are pregnant ( gravid spot ) and looking very large


Is it best to sep the pregnant female in to a sep breeding tank?, And whats best time to do it


I hope someone can help me out here, has i would like to hatch has many as possible.


thanks

 

[krissykat]

check the pinned topic on livebearers giving birth,
it has pics of platys but I believe its similiar for all live bearers

you don't want to separate her too late because the stress could cause her to abort,
identify the signs shes getting close (dark spot, back of the belly dropping, white spot near anal fin etc)
and move her over then,
try moving her in a container rather than a net, keeping her in water will be alot better for her

 

[meehan09]

ok thankyou.


would a breeding net in its original tank be ok, so its easyier and quicker to transfer her over.

And transfer back once finished?, Or is it best to set up another small tank with filter, lots of plants and once she looks ready put her in?

Will it stress her moving her to another tank to give birth if she moved to late or early, and how do i get it exsact time so its less stressfull.

And is a net in orginal tank or a sep tank better?


Hope you can help and yes iam off to read that sticky now, thankyou

 

[krissykat]

Im in the process of setting up another tank for fry for that reason,

the nets are good but they need to be really fine otherwise the fry will get out, as mine did...
he problem with most fine ones tho id that they dont separate the fry from the mother, and she will eat them...
with the floating boxes the fry can even get out of the slips in the sides, someone even told me their angel fish were waiting for the fry to get near the sides of their box and sucking them out O.O

if you wanna put her in a tank tho you can do it earlier than you can in a net,
(because the net is too small for her to be in for a long time)
so even if you put her in a week or so before it should be ok

have a look at those pics in the pinned post and that should give you a rough idea of when your guppys getting close...

a quick note about setting up the fry tank if you do tho, make sure the filter wont suck the fry up, and if it is too big you can cover it with a some stockings, or you could use (or even make your own..) sponge filter thats completely safe

 

[meehan09]

Thanks for your help

 

[krissykat]

good luck, let us know how you get on

 

[nosoup4you]

Tbh, guppies aren't terribly predatory with their fry. I leave my females in the main tank to birth to avoid stressing them. With plenty of cover, you should have a fair number of fry survive. Sometimes it is best to not try to save every one of them anyway, you are going to end up with more guppies than you know what to do with eventually, I speak from experience.

 

[dave_oddballs]

at the moment i have a load of these new(ish) tiger platies, but when i put the babies in the breeding net the other fish suck them through the net and eat them. its when they rest on the bottom of the net the others must see them as food and suck them through and eat them, i wouldn't completely trust a net, i prefer the plastic breeding traps of even better a seperate tank.