How Long Does It Take For Guppies To Be Born?

[Aqua Master]

Hey,
I've bred guppies before but I normally let nature take its course and let the fittest survive. However, this time I decided to used a breeding box. I've got 3 pregant female guppies in there. They started to let out babies around 3 hours ago and there's around 10 babies but I notice them eating some of the newborn fry. So I was wondering, how long does it take for all of them to be born, so that I can remove the females and keep most fry alive?
Thanks

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

It all depends really, if it was me I'd just let them be. You will give the fry a fighting chance by filling the tank with lots of live plants that they can hide in, floating plants included...

 

[Aqua Master]

I normally would do that but lately none of the fry have been surviving probably because of my yoyo loaches and relentless goruamis.

 

[emeraldking]

I would put such a female in a small tank or in a bucket and let het drop her fry in there. And take the female out again, once she's done. When a female has got more space, she's less likely to eat her fry. That's one of the tricks.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Guppies can give birth about every 30 days.

Also, there are breeder boxes for live bearers which are constructed such that the fry can drop down into a space which the adults are too large to enter. The are also breeder boxes that come with removable grates that divide the the boxes. fry can swim between the bars to safety but the adults cannot.

https://fluvalaquatics.com/us/product/hang-on-breeding-box/
Or go to Amazon and do a search for Breeding Box. There are several options.

But I agree with the small tank suggestion above. Fry predation is an issue of size. I used to breed montezuma swordtails. I used a ton of live plants so the fry could hide from the adults. But spawning is continuous and as the fry grew they eventually were big enough to eat the newborn fry and small enough to find where they hid in the plants. Plus the juvies were too big to be eaten by the adults. In the fish world, sometimes the answer to "What's for dinner?" can be, "Siblings."

 

[Aqua Master]

Guppies can give birth about every 30 days.

Also, there are breeder boxes for live bearers which are constructed such that the fry can drop down into a space which the adults are too large to enter. The are also breeder boxes that come with removable grates that divide the the boxes. fry can swim between the bars to safety but the adults cannot.

https://fluvalaquatics.com/us/product/hang-on-breeding-box/
Or go to Amazon and do a search for Breeding Box. There are several options.

But I agree with the small tank suggestion above. Fry predation is an issue of size. I used to breed montezuma swordtails. I used a ton of live plants so the fry could hide from the adults. But spawning is continuous and as the fry grew they eventually were big enough to eat the newborn fry and small enough to find where they hid in the plants. Plus the juvies were too big to be eaten by the adults. In the fish world, sometimes the answer to "What's for dinner?" can be, "Siblings."

My breeder box does have a barrier for the fry to go through but some of the fry are a tad daring and swim up to where the adults are and end up eaten

 

[j j m]

just bought some of these today ,when i had my last set up they used to breed like mad