I Have My First Guppy Fry!

williams22 · Oct 14, 2005

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 · Oct 14, 2005

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 · Oct 14, 2005

Totally agree! CONGRATS! :thumbs:

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! :sick:

!). 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 · Oct 14, 2005

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 · Oct 14, 2005

williams22 said:
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. :lol:

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

williams22 · Oct 14, 2005

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.