I Have My First Guppy Fry!

[williams22]

I bought 8 guppies (2M, 6F) two days ago at my lfs. 3 of the females looked very pregnant when I bought them. Yesterday, after returning home from school, I found about 15-20 guppy fry swimming around in the tank. I hadn't placed the pregnant females in a seperate tank or in a breeding net as I didn't know when they would drop(being this is my first time) or if it would stress them out too much. Anyways, I caught each fry I saw and placed it in the breeders net. I have been feeding them 6-8 times per day using regular tropical flakes and spirula(sp?) flakes both ground as small as I can between my fingers.

I have realized one mistake already, having gravel on the bottom of my tank made scooping up the little fry a pain!

 

[Annastasia]

Congrats!

Have fun raising the babies! What you are feeding sounds okay, but if you could give them some fry fod, or some crushed up Freeze-dried Bloodworms/Brine Shrimp/Tubifex Worms/Krill/etc that would give them some protein and help them grow faster.

 

[SnowyzMom]

Totally agree! CONGRATS!

Walmart recently started stocking Brine Shrimp, in round pebble shapes in a container. I find these round "pebbles" crush easily into an extremely fine powder that the guppy fry just love. All you gotta do is crush it with a slight finger squeeze (the brine shrimp pellet NOT the fry! !). Good luck with them. And yes the little blighters just LOVE hiding in the gravel...pretty smart of them actually, then they're not munchies for the tetras in my tank.

 

[williams22]

I just bought some small cubes of brine shrimp and I will crush them as suggested, thank you.

While I was at the lfs I saw a guppy I hadn't seen before and caved and bought it. This is going to be a dangerous addiction for me!

 

[Annastasia]

I just bought some small cubes of brine shrimp and I will crush them as suggested, thank you.

While I was at the lfs I saw a guppy I hadn't seen before and caved and bought it. This is going to be a dangerous addiction for me!

Yep. It is a dangerous addiction. Especially when they start having more and more fry, and you can't bear to part with them, and then the fry have fry, and you end up needing a 300 gallon....yep, dangerous.

Bettas are also addictive, so I suggest you don't get into them.

Edit: Since when did I have three thousand posts? I need to get a life.

 

[williams22]

I did bettas before I started with guppies. I spent a rather large amount importing some show quality ones from thailand to breed. I used it as my individual science project for my AP Biology class. It was a very expensive project though. I hoping guppies will be cheaper, althought I think I'll need some more tanks at some point.

 

[Ddraig Goch]

Congratulations on the fry!!

 

[aquagirl]

Awesome! I looooove fry.. they're no neat... lol congratulations.