help please

[bunnycutie1220]

i only have 6 guppy fry left and they still wont eat anything! all of them are just dying for some wierd reason!plllllllllllz help!!

 

[bunnycutie1220]

they dont even come and eat the food they just ignore it

 

[weswest]

you need to give us a bunch more info. For starters, what is your water quality, what are you feeding them, and are there any tank mates?

 

[bunnycutie1220]

im feedin thtem crushed peas, egg yolk, and crushed flakes. no they are alone in a 1.5 gal tank with and air pump.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I would feed them powered fry food like "first bites" or "TetraMinfry" or liquid fry food like "liquifry no.1" instead of the foods you are feeding them; they may be too young to cope with adult fish flake food and peas and egg yolk aern't realy nesarsary or suitable for them.
Then again, if you have somthing wrong with your water quality then that will also put them off their food so finding out the stats is important too.

 

[Whiskerz]

they may be too young to cope with adult fish flake food

Fry are able to eat adult flake food as long as its crushed up so it's almost powder like. All my fry ever got was crushed adult flake food and they grew up lovely

Also, I would suggest moving them into a 10 gallon tank or even a 5 gallon (Cycled first). So they can have more swimming room. My fry grew faster in a bigger tank as well

Now I could be wrong with this, but maybe them being in a 1.5 gallon tank is the reason why they are dying from it being over-populated I apologize if I'm wrong, I've never had guppy fry die on me when I had them in a 10 gallon, but it seems to me that that would be the case if they are dying for no reason Like everyone else has suggested....post what your water quality is and I'm sure we can help you from there...

I hope the 6 fry you have left make it and turn out wonderfully, good luck

 

[Fiori]

I too am rearing fry at the moment and I have 15 in a 6.5 gall - nowhere else to put them unfortunately. I feed them well crushed adult flake and they are now on to have tug o'war matches with bloodworm that are bigger than they are!

All growing like weeds!