Fancy Tail Guppies

[J-Money]

For some reason, my mail guppy died a while ago, so now there are just 3 females in the tank. I was doing some maintenance today and then I fed the fish afterwards to try and help them feel better, and I noticed this little clear lookin' thing that looked like it wuz swimming in my tank. I started to freak out, then I looked closely and it's a baby guppy...LOL I don't know how long it'll last in the tank but i might just have to go get another male to see if they will breed all the time. My barbs and puffers may like that

 

[J-Money]

Just a question...Do I need to turn my filter down? I noticed this baby guppy seems to stay around the stream between a bunch of plants. Is the strong current going to tire it out eventually?

 

[Tempestuousfury]

Is that the only hiding place for the little guy? I think it would move if it got tired out enough.

Sidenote: How is the puffer situation coming out, but the way? You have 5, so are there any fights? How long you have them?

 

[J-Money]

I've had the puffers in there for a few months now. No fights, sometimes one or two might get chased outta someones turf if they are feeling cantankerous, but there is a lot of space for 5 DPs in a 45G tank. Sometimes they all actually swim around together.


There are a lot of other places to hide if he really wanted to. I'm tempted to start digging through my tank to see if there are any other baby guppies hiding.

 

[Tempestuousfury]

I wouldn't suggest that. The puffers are probably yearning for live food.

 

[J-Money]

Yeah, if there are any other ones they've found places they are comfortable with, no sense in stressing them out already.

Especially since I just moved that tank into my room not 2 weeks ago and didn't see any babies. And I drained the tank pretty much almost empty

 

[Tempestuousfury]

The surprising thing is that I think I once totally removed all the water from one of my tanks and found a fry in it when I put new water in. It was a zebra danio fry, though.

 

[J-Money]

lol, i went to the LFS today for some ghost shrimp and i was looking in the bag and they accidentally added a little fry of some sorts. I think they had neon tetra's in the tank with the shrimp, but i'm not quite sure. I didn't really pay attention to what wuz in the feeder tank, i wuz too busy perusing the "real" fish