My 2Ft Tank.

[Paradise3]

They haven't aborted so i guess they may just be holding out on me.

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[Harlequins]

If they have aborted,you probably wont see owt anyway has they will eat an eggs/embryos

 

[Paradise3]

Plus they have never got any thinner just got fatter they now look like they gonna burst and their bellies are now square-ish.

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[OldMan47]

I think we talk way too often about fish holding fry or aborting them. I find that fish which are well treated, which does not mean undisturbed but just not overly harassed or cooped up, will drop just as they should. If you use one of the tiny breeding traps on one of the larger livebearers, they will sometimes drop a day or two earlier than they should but the widespread talk of holding or aborting fry is just taking rare happenings and making them seem everyday things.

 

[Paradise3]

I think we talk way too often about fish holding fry or aborting them. I find that fish which are well treated, which does not mean undisturbed but just not overly harassed or cooped up, will drop just as they should. If you use one of the tiny breeding traps on one of the larger livebearers, they will sometimes drop a day or two earlier than they should but the widespread talk of holding or aborting fry is just taking rare happenings and making them seem everyday things.

I'm not saying they are deffinitely holding out longer but it just seems weird how they just get fatter and fatter and i've had them at lest a month and they were quite pregnant when i got them. There is quite a few hiding places for the fry so they should survive or at least a couple of them should. They are deffinitely not cooped up 4 guppies have a whole 2ft tank to them selves lucky things.

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[OldMan47]

That is plenty of space for them and, with heavy cover, should lead to high survival rates.

 

[Paradise3]

How many of the fry would i be able to keep? (when i get some from them)
I would deffinitely be keeping the parents.

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[OldMan47]

On a first drop from a guppy in a 2 foot tank, you should be able to keep almost all of them, but sooner or later you will need to sell off many adults to avoid extreme overcrowding.

 

[Paradise3]

I won't be keeping all of them just the best colour morphs any others i will sell to anyone who wants them on here for a good deal or i can take them to my LFS but they only accept so many.

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[OldMan47]

If you are selective about what fish you keep, a 2 foot tank is often big enough to retain the best 10 or more of your adult fish. That can be enough to see a quality improvement in just a few generations.

 

[Paradise3]

If you are selective about what fish you keep, a 2 foot tank is often big enough to retain the best 10 or more of your adult fish. That can be enough to see a quality improvement in just a few generations.

Ok thats plenty. Just thought i would share this btw, 1 of my females isn't as pregnant as the other 2, when i got her i treated the tank with myxazin as she had part of her tail missing so most of the colour of her tail is gone. But she is still gorgeous as she has orange on the top part of her tail with luminous shimmery green-blue in the middle part there isn't really much colour on the bottom part. They are all doing great and all her tail has grown back now but not the colour so she has a part colour part clear tail. I will try and get a pic as i need a name for her.

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[OldMan47]

What grows back or not does not affect her genetic composition. She still carries the genes that attracted you to her to begin with. That really means that you have lost nothing as the result of the physical damage to your female. She will never be a pretty as she once was but her fry will carry her good looks forward.

 

[Paradise3]

I know and the reason she was battered when i got her is because, when they got their new goldfish stock they did not see her in the bag. So she had been quaratined with the goldfish and they had nipped at her as they were only small at the time. When i got there they were just going to get her out so i said i would take her and get her tail back to normal but she is still gorgeous and i have a video where you can see her very well so i will upload that soon.

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[Paradise3]

Here is a video of my fish now mainly my red delta i did mannage to get abit of a birds eye view but it's not very good.



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[Paradise3]

OMG i have liftoff! 1 of my guppies give birth today while i was in the room and i didn't know till i looked over and my red delta was very thin, so i looked in the plants and guess what so far, and i don't know if she is finished, i have 7 fry! I keep finding random babies in the plants at the top and everything.


Update: 9 babies and still counting!


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