Does Your Guppy Hold More Fry Once She Has Bred?

[tropicman]

Is it true that once your female guppy has bred once that she can hold more babies therefore having more fry ?

 

[Annastasia]

They usually have bigger batches of fry as they get older, yes. Some fish naturally have small batches of fry, and age won't help it. But they usually get larger numbers of fry as they age.

 

[Somethings Fishy Here]

Annastasia is right! I have had livebearers that only have about 10 babies the first time and end up having 3 times that just a few months later.

 

[Rhiannon]

Guppies can hold up to 6 deposits of sperm in them.

So once one lot of fry are born, she has spermies sitting in her, ready to inpregnante her again...thankgod this doesnt happen to humans!