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GuppyDude

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hey folks,
unfortinuately my one , male guppy has not relly improved from hi lil fin rot situation. he doesnt seem 2 stressed out about, he swims around like nothins happend. the other male is still a jerk but i removed him from the tank for a while and then reintroduced him. since then i havent had many problems. i dont think anyone told me in my last post so ill ask again, is fin rot contagious?

i went to my lfs yesterday on the search for sum females and came up with 2 very pregnant femalse. their kinda plain and id say around 2-3 years old. one looked like she was going to have her fry right away so i bought a new breeder trap. and sure enogh with in the 30 minutes she was in the breed she began dropping them. it was so cool. anyway about 4 hours later when she seemed to be done and was takeing an unhealthy interest in the new babys so i reeleased her into the tank were un expectedy she had atleast 5 more babys. ( im still trying to find one of them). now iv got like 30 new babys and another 30-40 on the way. i think there was like ony 2 stillbirths and one egg/fish thingy and that was it.

now for some questions:

>ow long do i wait untill i starte feeding them?
>ow long will it be umtil the other guppys cant eat them?
>when will the develop accual color?
>there are some fry that look to be compleatly white wen others are like greyish are these albinos or sumthin?

>o yea and phlysa how are ur guppy babys doin?
 
You can start feeding them right away. finely crushed flakes or baby brine shriimp. When the fry are too big to fit into the mouth of an adult then they are fine to go into the main tank. colors come at varying rates but seem to really start to brighten up around 6- 8 weeks. HTH :)
 
ya i am a lil bumed out about my male guppy, i feal bad i cant do anything about it, but im glad he doesnt seem to be suffering any.

thanx alot for ur help tsten, i fed them and they seemed to enjoy the food, ill try to find sum baby brine shrimp but my lfs probably wont carry it.

the female who had the babys looks like she may die, she is floating at the top of the tank with her mouth sucking air from the surface. she looks a lil pale to. im pretty sure its just old age getting to her thogh because she like 3 inches long and has many "battle scars" on her fins.
 
GuppyDude, :D
congrats on your new babies....

My little Babies are doing great... the one fishie I thought was missing a fin isn't missing it at all I think the fin didn't grow all the way but he's doing great came home one night and couldn't find him.. he was swimming with the rest of the babies and hadn't stopped much since then...

I started feeding mine when I got all of them in one place lol
Mine are 2 weeks and 2 days old now and are 1/2 inch.. and the mommy is still able to eat them..
Mine don't have colours yet but I know the males from females .. :nod: ..
all of mine are clear but two and they are just black lol :)

My Puppy Dog likes the fishies .. :rofl:

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lol nice pics, have u lost any babys or have they done pretty good, i cant count all mine because they swim to fast but i know i have like 25-30 fish. i had a couple still births but none to my knowledge have died or been eaten. :D
 
I haven't lost any babies .... just seem to be getting more lol I'm going to give my niece 4 females that a friend is giving me and two of my males from my tank i'm going out (maybe tomorrow) and buying to new females lol if I get them tomorrow I'll have pics up soon I know I don't like how wal marts keep fish put they have the ones I want... lol... I'm not putting them in my main tank for 4 days after I get them... to see if anyone gets sick or comes up with white spots or just dies.... if they die they go back to the store lol $2.69 each one is alot...

Having fun with your new babies ..lol mine love me.. I thought you would like my pics of my babies lol my puppy gets away with everything kinda like the fish lol he likes to follow the fish around the tank...

How are the new fry?? did you feed them yet?
Good luck with your new babies
Erin :D
 
yes i began feeding my fry yesterday and the love to eat. right now my other prego female is haveing more babys so im gunna have another 20+ fry :D i guess guppy fry do pretty well if u keep them safe . unfortinately the mother of the first batch of fry died yesterday evening and the male with fin rot i found dead this morning :sad: now im doing a search on fin rot to make sure its not contagious because i rely like my other male, id send pics but he's a fast one and my cam for sum odd reson cant shoot moveing objects -_- im not a fan of walmart fish either but sometimes they do have better fish than the lfs ;) my walmart has been looking much better (weather their accually takeing care of the fish for just scooping out the dead ones, ill never know :D )

gl with ur fry, ill keep u posted ;)
 
Ok lol with the fish I want to get lol my Husband told me to wait till I went to see my grandma. so now that I'm doing that I'm going to PetLand to get my two new females... if they have what I want :D ..and as for getting a pic of your fast one lol do what I do turn off the tank light he will go to the bottom or just stay in one spot and rest if the light from the cam gets him moving just do it a few times to get him use to it. then once when the fish is in front of camera take a quick picture. should work may take a few times lol but i've taken photography so I guess that helps a little lol you know trying to keep little kids still.....

I'm sorry about your two guppys you should be albe to take them back unless you did something with them already lol

The fry are so cute
have to send pics when you can of them lol
 
no i flushed them :sad: the male i had for a while and the female i had for 24 hours nearly exact. so i cant do that. but i did get like 30 fry out of her so thats good :D lol maybe a week ago i coulda got the male to be still but now iv got a female in there so hes a lil to excited to sleep. :)
 
lol I have to keep my males away from my females right now. don't have enough females, now if my mom who ( my mom and brother live with me and my husband) is going to her friends comes back today with the 4 females I asked her to pick up I can let them out till I take them to my niece ..lol 5 days till her birthday she'll be 11 (man that makes me feel old)...Hope I get thoes females guppies soon...
I can't flush any of my fish :sick: I have my husband do that I can't really even look at a dead fish... When My sucker fish died (My Fav,.. Shadow) I left him in the tank for 4 hours till my husband came home made me so sick to even look at the tank... He was the last fish in there I don't know why he died lol but he was from walmarts.... I had him for a year and half...
glad you got some babies though cause you did only pay for one lol....

Have fun and get pictures when you can.... I want to see them....
How is the baby fry doing...

Erin :fun:
mine are doing great have about 6 females that I can see right now and about 4 males lol the rest are in between... :D
 
lol ya i hate wen my fish die, it sucks my fry are awsome they love to eat. my remaining female is still prego, i think she just got stressed out and aborted most of her load because out of the like 10 fry she had 3 were eggs and she now just has fry randomly in the big tank so i just use a hose to suck em out wen i pot them. my male doesnt bother my female 2 much n e more because now she fights back :D im gunna try to get u some photos but i cant promise anything to impressive, my cams pics are always a lil fuzzy.

sry to here about ur sucker fish, if ever need a good sucker fish keep an eye out for one called a flying fox, the look kinda like alge eaters but the eat a lil alge and stuf off the bottom. their awsome for like 10g aquariums.

in my fry im trying to keep an eye out for werid shaped tail fins. my male guppy in a double swordtailed and im trying to see if i can selectively breed up some guppys that have some differant lookin tails.

gl with ur frys ;)
 
cool, i cants rely make out the tail fin of the top female but it looks rely cool uv gotta send me another pic of her, iv seen the red lace guppys b4, i think thats what the bottom one is, their probably one of the most colorful females, and the males are awsome. iv got some good pics of my fish but im having troble uploading them, u know any where were i can uploade them?
 
here ya go lol this is what I use http://photobucket.com/

and the top female has a red yellow and blue tail

they came from wal marts
they are not in my tank lol
I may take them back and go to petland everyone seems to want me to -_-
what do you think???...

Erin :)
 

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