Hello everyone! I’ve got a few issues surrounding feedings.
My sister just bought a house, so every weekend for 2-4 days, I’ve been going over to help her renovate. On the days where I’m gone 3-4 days I typically put up an automatic feeder and on the couple days I don’t bother. However, I think the frequency of them missing meals is having adverse reactions. Typically I feed them 6 days a week with flakes, bloodworms, or shrimp pellets. But lately, they’ve been getting fed 5 days a week or however much the feeders drop during the longer trips.
Reason I think the less meals are having adverse effects: I came home last week and one of my male guppies in my 29 gallon was completely devoured. Usually when a fish dies, the body is completely intact when I find them. This time; there was barely a fish left and the only reason I was able to identify who it was because of who wasn’t in the tank. And, if that were it I probably would have thought it odd but brushed it off. To make it double worse, one of my female guppies in my 20 gallon (so a completely separate tank) ate a 6 week old fry whole and when I got home was in the process the pooping the thing out. I attached a photo. Edit: one of my other female guppies had a hollow black ring on her scales that looks a lot like a bite mark too.
For this weekend, I put feeders on every single tank and increased the drops by a significant amount. Because when I’m the one physically feeding them, nothing like this has ever happened.
I also started increasing my normal feedings because I noticed that my younger fry in my main tanks weren’t growing. At all. My older fry, who are able to compete for food, were fully able to continue eating but my little ones are struggling. So I captured my small 5-6 week old fry and put them into my 3-4week old fry tank and the older ones were barely any bigger. But how do I solve this problem when I put them back in my main tanks until they’re old enough to sell? My 29 gallon has a lot of male guppies (mostly older older fry which I don’t have an exact count of), 6 glo zebra tetras, and 3 Cory cats. I’m worried about these corys too. Barely any food makes it to the bottom of the tank and when I put sinking pellets in my guppies hound them, often stealing them away before my corys even get the chance to find them. My 20 gallon has a bunch of female guppies and 4 Cory catfish. Same issue with the cories here but the ladies aren’t nearly as aggressive about it so they get a few bites. Each tank has a candy striped pleco as well. I barely see them once a week so for them it’s sheer faith that they are healthy.
And on top of all of that, one of my adult ladies is much too thin. She goes for food but spits most of it out. She’s still alive and I’ve had her for months… but I just don’t know what to do to fatten her up. I just tried putting her in my isolation tank so there would be no competition and tried my three types of food but she didn’t seem to care for any of them. I included a picture of her too after she’d eaten today.
I just want my babies to eat well
Or have my tanks finally overstocked? I have a relatively small number of adult guppies. I can’t remember how many at the moment, but my adults all have names so I could figure it out if I really need to.
My sister just bought a house, so every weekend for 2-4 days, I’ve been going over to help her renovate. On the days where I’m gone 3-4 days I typically put up an automatic feeder and on the couple days I don’t bother. However, I think the frequency of them missing meals is having adverse reactions. Typically I feed them 6 days a week with flakes, bloodworms, or shrimp pellets. But lately, they’ve been getting fed 5 days a week or however much the feeders drop during the longer trips.
Reason I think the less meals are having adverse effects: I came home last week and one of my male guppies in my 29 gallon was completely devoured. Usually when a fish dies, the body is completely intact when I find them. This time; there was barely a fish left and the only reason I was able to identify who it was because of who wasn’t in the tank. And, if that were it I probably would have thought it odd but brushed it off. To make it double worse, one of my female guppies in my 20 gallon (so a completely separate tank) ate a 6 week old fry whole and when I got home was in the process the pooping the thing out. I attached a photo. Edit: one of my other female guppies had a hollow black ring on her scales that looks a lot like a bite mark too.
For this weekend, I put feeders on every single tank and increased the drops by a significant amount. Because when I’m the one physically feeding them, nothing like this has ever happened.
I also started increasing my normal feedings because I noticed that my younger fry in my main tanks weren’t growing. At all. My older fry, who are able to compete for food, were fully able to continue eating but my little ones are struggling. So I captured my small 5-6 week old fry and put them into my 3-4week old fry tank and the older ones were barely any bigger. But how do I solve this problem when I put them back in my main tanks until they’re old enough to sell? My 29 gallon has a lot of male guppies (mostly older older fry which I don’t have an exact count of), 6 glo zebra tetras, and 3 Cory cats. I’m worried about these corys too. Barely any food makes it to the bottom of the tank and when I put sinking pellets in my guppies hound them, often stealing them away before my corys even get the chance to find them. My 20 gallon has a bunch of female guppies and 4 Cory catfish. Same issue with the cories here but the ladies aren’t nearly as aggressive about it so they get a few bites. Each tank has a candy striped pleco as well. I barely see them once a week so for them it’s sheer faith that they are healthy.
And on top of all of that, one of my adult ladies is much too thin. She goes for food but spits most of it out. She’s still alive and I’ve had her for months… but I just don’t know what to do to fatten her up. I just tried putting her in my isolation tank so there would be no competition and tried my three types of food but she didn’t seem to care for any of them. I included a picture of her too after she’d eaten today.
I just want my babies to eat well
Or have my tanks finally overstocked? I have a relatively small number of adult guppies. I can’t remember how many at the moment, but my adults all have names so I could figure it out if I really need to.
