My Guppies @ 2.5 Months (Updated)

[sylros]

Very nice guppies and great job in raising them. When someone gave me some fry, I kinda did a similar thing with their diet except no live stuff with a small heated, filtered tank. Mine did a lot better than those from an unheated, unfiltered tank. Mine were almost 3 times as big and much more colourful. She ended up buying my tank as she saw how great things were going...never lost one as opposed to her. i ended up getting myself a slightly bigger tank and got more fry from another person. With those, hopefully the inbred will be remedied.

Quick question though...are you watching out for inbreeding? I read somewhere that this made for weaker fish but am not sure of what it does to the coloring. I happen to have an inbred batch of guppies, so far they're doing fine but they are only a few weeks old. The female is quite plain looking almost no coloring.

 

[Guppyz]

Guppyz, frankly speaking, before I jumped into guppies bandwagon from angelfish keeping, I was quite sceptical that guppies could be at that stage within 3 months period. According to all threads abt guppy's good fishkeeping, we have to keep them in tip top condition from day 1 till they reached 3 months. With almost daily WCs and at least 6 feedings per day with newly hatched BBS, chopped tubifex worms, frozen blood worms, and don't skim on flakes - get the good one. So, I followed religiously as being told.

And here they're, at 3 months old.

I don't believe it myself, until I got the result.

So, if you want to get good result, simply keep the fries as above.

Thank you! I'll do my best but i cant find any bbs ive tried

 

[tankwidow]

Gorgeous looking fish!!

 

[lilirish]

Wow! Your guppies are simply amazing. Are you going to use any of your own offspring for future breeding to control patterns or are you sticking with your original parents?

 

[noor]

Very nice guppies and great job in raising them. When someone gave me some fry, I kinda did a similar thing with their diet except no live stuff with a small heated, filtered tank. Mine did a lot better than those from an unheated, unfiltered tank. Mine were almost 3 times as big and much more colourful. She ended up buying my tank as she saw how great things were going...never lost one as opposed to her. i ended up getting myself a slightly bigger tank and got more fry from another person. With those, hopefully the inbred will be remedied.

Quick question though...are you watching out for inbreeding? I read somewhere that this made for weaker fish but am not sure of what it does to the coloring. I happen to have an inbred batch of guppies, so far they're doing fine but they are only a few weeks old. The female is quite plain looking almost no coloring.

Sylros, yes I am doing the inbreeding now and presently I have a batch of 12 days fries. I cannot be certain about them getting weak if they were raised by inbreeding as I don't have any experienced yet.

 

[noor]

Wow! Your guppies are simply amazing. Are you going to use any of your own offspring for future breeding to control patterns or are you sticking with your original parents?

I find that daddy guppy is sluggish now and he simply swims swims swims and eats eats eats lol!

So, I am doing the offsprings to get more guppies. I have a batch of fries now.

Gorgeous looking fish!!

Thks for the appreciating my guppies.

 

[OldMan47]

Noor, the only thing outdated about a D-70 is the sales receipt. That is a kick butt camera and a macro lens is always welcome for nice fish closeups. I use a D-80 for mine but wish I had a macro lens. Those things cost a fortune where I am.