how far along are my guppies?

jmoreland · May 5, 2020

hi! I now have some female guppies and I was wondering how far along they are?!! Some obviously still have a bit to go but I can tell these ones are much closer! Thank you! Also I’ll add more photos sorry lol they are being extremely difficult

JuiceBox52 · May 5, 2020

The first one looks like about a week or week and a half, the second one longer

jmoreland · May 5, 2020

Some more pics

Retired Viking · May 5, 2020

Photos look good, I have a hard time taking pictures of my fish, they always seem to take off just when you think you have a picture and end up with a blur, I have had feeder guppies for awhile now and I gave up on trying to tell how long until they will have babies because I am usually wrong. Some of yours look like they are getting close. I would leave the mother in the tank to reduce her stress and not move her. Feed the guppies well and if you want to catch the fry, try a plastic cup. I just leave them in the tank and my guppies seem to leave the fry alone. I must have close to 100 swimming around in my RES tank. I just bought a pair of fancy guppies that are in my LOTR 30 gallon tank which is silent/planted cycling. He is chasing her around along with a couple of better looking feeder guppies-they are like rabbits.

emeraldking · May 6, 2020

All females shown still have to go a bit before some fry will be born... Patience...

jmoreland · May 17, 2020

update! the green gave birth two days ago to about 7 guppies ( that i could find haha!) the next day the sheer guppy gave birth to 14!! she ate one and 2 died bc they were not physically born right but! we are very happy!

Salty&Onion · May 17, 2020

jmoreland said:
2 died bc they were not physically born right but! we are very happy!

Born prematurely I suppose..

Retired Viking · May 17, 2020

jmoreland said:
update! the green gave birth two days ago to about 7 guppies ( that i could find haha!) the next day the sheer guppy gave birth to 14!! she ate one and 2 died bc they were not physically born right but! we are very happy!

I have several fry swimming around in my LOTR tank now, did not think the female was pregnant but she surprised me, I added another pair of fancy guppies and they threw in another female free. :fish:

Salty&Onion · May 18, 2020

Retired Viking said:
I have several fry swimming around in my LOTR tank now, did not think the female was pregnant but she surprised me, I added another pair of fancy guppies and they threw in another female free.

Soon you will have an ocean of fry

Retired Viking · May 18, 2020

Salty&Onion said:
Soon you will have an ocean of fry

I am thinking that too, Was also thinking of moving the fancy fry to the shrimp tank in the future but it depends how much my baby granddaughter likes to watch them. She can stand now but has to hold on the something and the LOTR tank is perfect for her to watch the fish. It is low to the ground. :fish:

Salty&Onion · May 18, 2020

Retired Viking said:
I am thinking that too, Was also thinking of moving the fancy fry to the shrimp tank in the future but it depends how much my baby granddaughter likes to watch them. She can stand now but has to hold on the something and the LOTR tank is perfect for her to watch the fish. It is low to the ground.

If I could, I would literally live inside my tank

My betta, Candy, if he would still be around me he always would hunt them down and eat fry.