Guppy Fry

[BethK]

I finally have guppy fry, mixture of 4 and are 4 days old from my yellow guppy and 14 from my platinum silver/blue guppy.

With the platinum guppy, the fry are a dark color with black eyes or a white/cream color with white eyes. Excited to see how they turn out.

What's the best food to feed guppy fry, with 1 lot being 1 day old and a few being 4 days old.

 

[fluttermoth]

Guppy fry do fine on your normal fish food; just grind it up really fine. If you want to treat them, some hard-boiled egg yolk usually goes down well.

Just remember to keep doing lots of small water changes that's the most important thing with guppy fry

 

[BethK]

Thanks

There is 1 juvvie guppy in there, he is 1 month old, doesn't seem bothered about the baby fry. Will he be an issue?

 

[fluttermoth]

No; as long as he's not big enough to eat the tiny ones (which at a month old I wouldn't have thought he is) they'll be fine together.

 

[BethK]

yay................how sad am I to be excited

Got upset cus I didn't save the first 3 batches of fry from the community tank and they became food. Then my first time cory eggs didn't hatch, 2nd time only 4 hatched and 1 survived (he's in with the guppy fry at the moment).

Fingers crossed

 

[fluttermoth]

Awww; it's not sad to be excited about your first babies

 

[helterskelter]

Best foods is simply crushed flake foods, and if u can newly hatched brine shrimp.
Dont feed egg yolk, far to easy to pollute the water.

Egg yolk is best used to fry that need microscopic foods like Betta's for example.

Also I rear all my fry along side my adults (well most of the time) so mixing with older fry is fine.

 

[OldMan47]

As HS said, a finely crushed flake food is fine for newborn fry. One of the things you will need to deal with is water quality. Although many fry are born into perfect water conditions, frequent water changes will still be needed for good fry growth. Fry growth depends on two factors and either one can result in poor fry growth. The first factor is adequate nutrients, in the form of feedings. The second is good water quality which almost always means frequent large water changes. If you meet both requirements, you can expect the fastest practical growth of your fry.

 

[BethK]

I've got 15 fry in total, the ones that have white eyes and a white body are smaller than the fry that have the grey/darker/black colorings.


I change 50% water every 3 days, fingers crossed that i haven't lost any yet.

Could the white coloring mean that they will become platinum? The mum is a platinum coloration (blue).

 

[fluffycabbage]

I've got 15 fry in total, the ones that have white eyes and a white body are smaller than the fry that have the grey/darker/black colorings.


I change 50% water every 3 days, fingers crossed that i haven't lost any yet.

Could the white coloring mean that they will become platinum? The mum is a platinum coloration (blue).

How they getting on? Got any pics?

 

[BethK]

too small for pics, they look like small specks lol

They are well, swimming about, like piranhas at feeding time lol