How to take care of baby guppies

[lee_an]

I just got 5 of my females dropping at about the same time,and had about 80 fry,so how do i propely take care of them

 

[Angry_Platy]

Do you have one or two tanks? If you only have one tank, do you have a breeders trap? what are they fry doing ATM (i.e. have you separated them from the parents)..

The best thing to do ATM, is put the fry into a breeding trap/net in your tank...this way you can feed them as often as need be and with the foods they need to grow.

As for feeding....you need to feed many small feeding i.e. 4-5 a day with a baby food powder (available from your LFS)....if this is not available, take normal flakes and ground them up very fine then sprinkle it on the water....

Also, you need to keep the tank they are in very clean as bad water conditions can stunt their growth. The little guys also produce a LOT of waste.

Good luvk withthe little guys.....do you plan on keeping them all?

 

[Tempestuousfury]

I would not suggest trying to raise all those fry unless you have enough tanks to handle them (or potential buyers). I'd suggest leaving a great many of the fry in a tank with older fish so they get eaten, thus serving the purpose of feeding the otehrs and the overcrowding problem. For the rest, you might want a few 10 gallon tanks in which you could put sponge filtration so the fish don't get sucked up. You mgiht want to feed them crushed flakes now or you might want to feed them brine shrimp until they're older. The latter would be more beneficial to the fry, IMO.

 

[willywonka099]

if you are getting payed for every seperate fish remove all but if you are going for quality leave them in there cuz the strongest and quickest will survive

 

[Da_Oz]

I am with willy if you don't want them all leave them in the tank and let nature priville