My Guppies Had Fry! They All Fell Into The Substrate!

[mike_nofx]

I noticed a few fry in my guppy tank (my first fry). They had fallen into the gravel substrate. I noticed them as a few were up against the glass.

I managed to get out 4 of them, and i put them into a glass cup. I have no idea how many other fry are hidden in the substrate. Tomorrow i will get a new small tank for the fry with no substrate at all.

What substrate can be used in a guppy breeding tank?

Do you raise the guppy fry with the parents and other full sized guppies? or on their own?

Do the fry require a filter when they are so small?

Any guppy breeding tips would be very appreciated!!

Thanks, i have included a picture of the fry, you can only see 2 of them and they are hard to make out. They are in a glass cup, which is inside the tank (the top of the cup sticks out the top of the water so the fry cant get out) The cup is temporary only for a day or so till i get a small fry only tank.

 

[lilfishie]

congrats on the fry. i have a no gravel in my fry tanks until the reach about 2 cm then i use a fine sustrate

 

[guppymommy]

I don't keep my fry in the "big" tank with the adults. When they are first dropped, I use a turkey baster to suck them up and put them into the breeder net. It is much easier than trying to use a net to catch the little guys! After they have been in the breeder net (usually 2 days), I move them into my fry tank.

The fry tank is five gallons and has some nickle sized glass stones (I got them from the craft department in my Wal-Mart) that are usually used in the bottom of vases. There aren't many of the stones on the bottom of the tank, so cleaning is easy. It gives the fry a place to hide and also catches food for them to eat off the bottom (so less of the food gets sucked into the filter).

I tried a bare bottomed tank at first, but the fish seem happier with the stones on the bottom. I also have plants (a bit of elodia on the top and some silk plants on the bottom).

My tank has a filter (one built into the lid) and it hasn't seemed to bother the babies (I've put them in the fry tank when they were only 2 days old and haven't had any sucked into the filter yet). I've never used a back of the tank filter in the fry tank so I'm not sure how that would work.

I also have some ramshorn snails in the tank to help with waste and algae management.

Congratulations on your fry and best of luck!

 

[Brine Shrimp Flesh!]

I don't keep my fry in the "big" tank with the adults. When they are first dropped, I use a turkey baster to suck them up and put them into the breeder net. It is much easier than trying to use a net to catch the little guys! After they have been in the breeder net (usually 2 days), I move them into my fry tank.

The fry tank is five gallons and has some nickle sized glass stones (I got them from the craft department in my Wal-Mart) that are usually used in the bottom of vases. There aren't many of the stones on the bottom of the tank, so cleaning is easy. It gives the fry a place to hide and also catches food for them to eat off the bottom (so less of the food gets sucked into the filter).

I tried a bare bottomed tank at first, but the fish seem happier with the stones on the bottom. I also have plants (a bit of elodia on the top and some silk plants on the bottom).

My tank has a filter (one built into the lid) and it hasn't seemed to bother the babies (I've put them in the fry tank when they were only 2 days old and haven't had any sucked into the filter yet). I've never used a back of the tank filter in the fry tank so I'm not sure how that would work.

I also have some ramshorn snails in the tank to help with waste and algae management.

Congratulations on your fry and best of luck!

Hi,

It is most unwise to do that! Fry are very delicate an can easily be damaged using that method.

 

[diburning]

I don't keep my fry in the "big" tank with the adults. When they are first dropped, I use a turkey baster to suck them up and put them into the breeder net. It is much easier than trying to use a net to catch the little guys! After they have been in the breeder net (usually 2 days), I move them into my fry tank.

The fry tank is five gallons and has some nickle sized glass stones (I got them from the craft department in my Wal-Mart) that are usually used in the bottom of vases. There aren't many of the stones on the bottom of the tank, so cleaning is easy. It gives the fry a place to hide and also catches food for them to eat off the bottom (so less of the food gets sucked into the filter).

I tried a bare bottomed tank at first, but the fish seem happier with the stones on the bottom. I also have plants (a bit of elodia on the top and some silk plants on the bottom).

My tank has a filter (one built into the lid) and it hasn't seemed to bother the babies (I've put them in the fry tank when they were only 2 days old and haven't had any sucked into the filter yet). I've never used a back of the tank filter in the fry tank so I'm not sure how that would work.

I also have some ramshorn snails in the tank to help with waste and algae management.

Congratulations on your fry and best of luck!

Hi,

It is most unwise to do that! Fry are very delicate an can easily be damaged using that method.

TURKEY BASTERS ARE 100% SAFE. DO NOT BELIEVE THIS GUY!! I used a turkey baster to get fry out of my convict tank, out of my livebearer tank, and hell I used it to take out some alevin for inspection when I bred atlantic salmon.

 

[Rafael Dilone]

For a guppy fry tank you will need a sponge filter, heater, no gravel, baby fish food, baby brine shrimp, and crushed flakes.



P.S

It wont be a good idea for the mother guppy to be in the fry tank. She would most likely eat the fry. But a fish that wont eat their fry is the discus. Great parent. The fry feed on the excessive slime coating that grows on the mother discuss after pregnancy.

 

[diburning]

For a guppy fry tank you will need a sponge filter, heater, no gravel, baby fish food, baby brine shrimp, and crushed flakes.



P.S

It wont be a good idea for the mother guppy to be in the fry tank. She would most likely eat the fry. But a fish that wont eat their fry is the discus. Great parent. The fry feed on the excessive slime coating that grows on the mother discuss after pregnancy.

most cichlids wont eat their fry. cichlids have a higher intelligence and can diffrentiate between offspring and food.

 

[guppymommy]

NAH, I use a Turkey baster and agree that is 100% safe. It's much safer than the net in my opinion. I have damaged fry with the net but haven't had any problems with the turkey baster.

 

[Xebadir]

Just to clarify: Nothing is 100% safe: Fry are very delicate forms of the creatures we all keep and love, and thus are suceptable to being damaged by anything that they are in contact with: including turkey basters.

There will always be some loss in transferring fry to their tank.

 

[guppymommy]

Well, so far I've been extremely lucky then as I haven't lost a single fry since I started using the turkey baster.

 

[hot_hazza3]

congrats