Guppy Q's Please Help!

[leilani675]

Okay so my guppy fry had oddly pointed tails and with some research I found that I was "Pin tail" aka a kind of "Itch" I think its called...anyways, I went to my LPS and got meds and treated them for about a week, until their tails looked better and 3 days after that to be on the safe side. Soooooo....my question is...How long should I wait til I intro them to my community tank?? They are somewhere around 2 months old. Which bring me to my next question...my 2 month old fry are smaller then I think they should be...I have another batch of fry (12) that were born on June 25th and they are bigger then my teenages...what up with that Ohhh and my last batch only ended up being 12 fry...which all made it (even my one eyed girl haha) its that weird for the batch to be so small...Ive been reading and all these people say they had like 20-30 fry!!! OHHH and their ALL GIRLS!!! I have 1 male out of 16 fry!!!!! Crazy!! Can anyone help me out with my guppys?

 

[monica]

you should be able to introduce your new guppies to the community tank by now. But considering they are so small. (how long are they?) I can't be sure... And it is a proven fact that many living male creatures carry more Y sperm than X sperm (y is female, x is male) So it is just luck of the draw. But you have more chance of your female delivering more females than males. And in your case you had a small drop so it is not too unlikely that she would deliver 1 male out of them all.

 

[community begginer]

also to your small batch problem.... 12 seams about rite to me... all depends how old you mother is and howmany batches she has had.... the more batches she has teh more fry you usually get on each batch.... the numbers grow as they get older..... a young mother will only really give birth to about a hand ful or two... so dont fret.....

to be on teh safe side...... i wouldnt add your older guppies to teh main tank just yet..... to be safe i would quarantine them for another week or two just incase it reocurse...... how long since they healed?? if it is anymore than 2 weeks ago i wpould add them...

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