Great Find!

[benji1452]

hmm well i had trouble keeping males alive down here in brighton but invested in a pregnant female who gave birth and died shortly after but it seems the off spring she left me with adapted to the water and are doing perfecly fine have you tryed that bringing them up from birth?
maybe youll have more luck that way=/
Good luck

 

[kribensis12]

Thank's i will try. I just hd a female black delta birth in the tank last night, and my female blonde guppy is due anyday, so it might work!

 

[benji1452]

good good well let me know how it turns out

 

[Bungy]

I can certainly ditto that - not much luck with new adult Guppys but the fry are as hard as nails and apart from the occasional losses due to hungry adult fish that share the same tank I have had around 90% success rate at rearing the fry thus far.

I noticed that once I had trasferred the fry to another tank - around 100L with 2 x 50L partitions - they grew at what I considered to be a normal rate - I also had some Platty fry in there too - around 3 weeks later another female Guppy dropped some sprogs in the main tank - 377L - I managed to recover 5 of these but one escaped capture and I left it to its own fate - luck would have it that SHE survived and is in fact slightly BIGGER now then the fry I put in the small tank born 3 weeks earlier - the same thing happened with the Platty that escaped capture. I am feeding exactly the same as the main tank, Flake and frozen with the occasional veg thrown in. This means that the Fry obviously adjust to their surroundings according to space - I have subsequently transferred 5 of the 10 fry from one partition to the bigger community tank to see if their growth catches up or in fact produces stunted adults. I will compare their growth rate with the remaining 5 in the smaller tank together with the other 12 or so left in the other partition.

Interesting this game isnt it...??

 

[kribensis12]

Yeah it is! I will keep up on the female guppy! She is very pretty, if i could only get her to stop having babies and get a male that will LIVE long enough to breed! I would have some stellar babies!

 

[bucksgill]

Sadley he died He was so pretty, adn so young. I think that most male guppies must be to inbred, becasue i never have luck! He was fine 2 day's ago. But yesterdya, where his dorsal fin is( was!) there was some white stuff, and then he died. This happens to about all my guppies! I can never figure out what it is! Any idea's?

I have heard that becuase Guppies are very popular and the males look amazing, they are inbred very quickly and also selective bred so they are not as hardy as they once were. I always thought they were super hardy fish but my lfs told me they werent because of breeding