How Long Until Your Fry

[Jezah]

Just wondering as my fry seems to be taking a LONG time

 

[Angry_Platy]

How old are your fry? If you watch them all the time it will seem like they never grow. One day you will look at your "fry" and go "when did they not be fry anymore?" and "when did tey get so big
?" or "where have my fry gone?"

Make sense?

 

[snowyangel]

Oops i read it wrong! i thought it said in months! I can sell my guppies to a store at around 7-8 months old. They're not full adults because stores want them slightly young, but thats when they buy them from me. Add about 3 more months for mine to become their full adult size.

 

[Macracantha]

It also depends on the species....It is possible to have up to 4 generations of guppies in 12 months!

 

[Jezah]

Well I have a mixed fry tank. I have 2 dalmation molly fry that were born in november and are only 1 1/4 inches long, 5 Blue Platys born in January that are about half a inch long or so....and some guppy babies born in Febuary that are about the same size. It just seems odd that they seem to be taking so long. I feed them 2x a day and the temp is about 78 degrees farenheit. They are in a 10g they have all to themselves except for some ramshorn snail babies, 2 adult snails and 2 corydora catfish.

 

[Macracantha]

Fry need big tanks to grow quickly...yours are doing ok considering the cories are taking up space too!

 

[Bryan1957]

My guppies were born the end of January and are about 1-1/4" long while the platties born about the same time are only about 1" long. The platties have a larger body than the guppies. I have swordtails born within a week of them and they are slightly smaller than the platties. They are in a 55 gallon U.S. tank (about 20 or so fry total) with 5 adult platties, two adult swordtails and one adult female guppy. It sounds like your fry are doing OK.

 

[Polardbear]

How often do you do water changes? I keep my swordtail fry in 10 gallon tanks and try to do daily or every other day water changes. They seem to grow faster when I change the water more frequently. A varied diet of flake, frozen bloodworms and fresh hatched baby brine shrimp makes a significant difference in growth rate as well.