Hi guys
Wondering if anyone could give me some advice, I recently added two female guppies, 1 pregnant, and one male to my tank, I'm fairly new to it all and after reading around the net I found that the pregnant fish should be seperated so all the babies aren't eaten.
I've made a makeshift breeding trap with some weed in it and placed the pregnant fish in it, at first she looked really stressed but after a couple of hours she seemed ok but I've come back from work today and shes been breathing really heavily for the last 3 hours, doesn't look happy at all, do they do that when they are giving birth or is the small space too stressful? I could create a really dense area of weed and let her back in to the tank would that be better? Also the male guppy died the next day and two tetra a week back I've taken a water sample to the 'real' fish shop - ie not petsmart where these little guys are from and they run every test and said it was fine.
ph ~ 6.5 temp 26 30l tall rather than long tank.
2 platys, 1 drawf gourami, two algea eaters, 4 neon tetra and some other tetras that Im not sure what they are called, look like little sharks. Sorry for the ignorance would appreciate any help
Mark
Wondering if anyone could give me some advice, I recently added two female guppies, 1 pregnant, and one male to my tank, I'm fairly new to it all and after reading around the net I found that the pregnant fish should be seperated so all the babies aren't eaten.
I've made a makeshift breeding trap with some weed in it and placed the pregnant fish in it, at first she looked really stressed but after a couple of hours she seemed ok but I've come back from work today and shes been breathing really heavily for the last 3 hours, doesn't look happy at all, do they do that when they are giving birth or is the small space too stressful? I could create a really dense area of weed and let her back in to the tank would that be better? Also the male guppy died the next day and two tetra a week back I've taken a water sample to the 'real' fish shop - ie not petsmart where these little guys are from and they run every test and said it was fine.
ph ~ 6.5 temp 26 30l tall rather than long tank.
2 platys, 1 drawf gourami, two algea eaters, 4 neon tetra and some other tetras that Im not sure what they are called, look like little sharks. Sorry for the ignorance would appreciate any help
Mark
