I’m Baby Sitting

[gwand]

My friend is away for a month and asked me to house his guppies in his absence. I may not return them.

 

[Magnum Man]

I’ve found out why guppies are so popular… they can be pretty, they are still hardy, often much more, than a lot of other fish that have been in the hobby for a long time, and easy to breed…

 

[Back in the fold]

No females ? If not find one and keep the fry .

 

[gwand]

There are females. Good idea

 

[anewbie]

I baby sat for a hen once but when i sat on the egg it kind of went splat.

Btw pretty guppies.

 

[Back in the fold]

There are females. Good idea

I hope you have them long enough to snag some fry . Those are nice guppies .

 

[gwand]

I hope you have them long enough to snag some fry . Those are nice guppies .

That’s not going to be a problem. One female is definitely pregnant.

 

[anewbie]

That’s not going to be a problem. One female is definitely pregnant.

Do you need a pin to pop her ?

 

[gwand]

Do you need a pin to pop her ?

Yes indeed.

 

[GaryE]

You do like your red and orange fish!

I no longer keep guppies, but with my killies, I love watching the transition from plain little fry into colourful adults. Not only would keeping fry let you keep a nice fancy guppy tanks, but you'd get that fun. Guppy fry vary, and it's fun to see what you get.

 

[anewbie]

You do like your red and orange fish!

I no longer keep guppies, but with my killies, I love watching the transition from plain little fry into colourful adults. Not only would keeping fry let you keep a nice fancy guppy tanks, but you'd get that fun. Guppy fry vary, and it's fun to see what you get.

I no longer keep guppies either nor do i keep killies but i have some colourful serpae and a few less colourful rosy loach in the pink/red spectrum. Also one of the species of kribs i have will have some lovely red fins.

 

[gwand]

You do like your red and orange fish!

I no longer keep guppies, but with my killies, I love watching the transition from plain little fry into colourful adults. Not only would keeping fry let you keep a nice fancy guppy tanks, but you'd get that fun. Guppy fry vary, and it's fun to see what you get.

Yes, I do love my colors. Actually my favorite color is blue. I do have a dwarf blue gourami. I guess bright colors help my depressive personality. But I am equally drawn to body shape, small stature, and interesting behavior. When I am creating a new tank, I try to fill these criteria. I agree with you that watching a fry blossom into a colorful adult is a sight to behold. It reminds me of watching a tulip grow from a knob into a beautiful, colorful and pleasing shape.

 

[anewbie]

Yes, I do love my colors. Actually my favorite color is blue. I do have a dwarf blue gourami. I guess bright colors help my depressive personality. But I am equally drawn to body shape, small stature, and interesting behavior. When I am creating a new tank, I try to fill these criteria. I agree with you that watching a fry blossom into a colorful adult is a sight to behold. It reminds me of watching a tulip grow from a knob into a beautiful, colorful and pleasing shape.

I would like to point out that one of my nicest looking fish is black and white:

 

[gwand]

I would like to point out that one of my nicest looking fish is black and white:

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Me too!

 

[GaryE]

Yes, I do love my colors. Actually my favorite color is blue. I do have a dwarf blue gourami. I guess bright colors help my depressive personality. But I am equally drawn to body shape, small stature, and interesting behavior. When I am creating a new tank, I try to fill these criteria. I agree with you that watching a fry blossom into a colorful adult is a sight to behold. It reminds me of watching a tulip grow from a knob into a beautiful, colorful and pleasing shape.

I think a good fishkeeper realizes quickly this is a lot like growing flowers. You can buy cut flowers for instant gratification, but it's fun to grow your own even if it takes a seaso, or in some cases, a year to see the full flowering.

I'm very pleased today because I put some Nothobranchius palmqvisti eggs that had been incubating for 3 months into water, and what did I get? A couple of dozen fry.

Since I wasn't quite sure how I'd do, I have a dozen more more bags of wet coco coir I had in various tanks of adults, hoping they'd breed. This first hatch is already more than I could have hoped for, but I'll hatch them all over the next 3 months, and the local pet stores will profit.

One store sells them at $60 a pair, and so I can change that market pretty fast. These are pretty pretty fish.