My Guppy Fry Journal

[Ny82]

I know and I keep looking at them but, my tank has guppies and well only one Molly now , so i didn't want to fill the tank with all fish that swim in the middle or top, so am finishing off the tank with Cory's that will add a little something to the bottom. NEED A BIGGER TANK!

Lol I will freely admit I am overstocked but my parameters are fine. I have only got a 64L tank with:
1 endler
1 male guppy
2 female guppies
2 small lyretail mollies who have been in my temp care for about 2 weeks but I haven't heard back from my mate when he's taking them back They are the size of platies.
5 cories
and of course my 8 fry who will be going to the petshop in a few weeks and my 10 fry in the trap!

To look at - the tank always looks empty they are always swimming about amongst the plants and stuff. I do a 10% water change every morning due to the fry and I do a 50% change every sunday so I think I am fine for just now.

 

[This Old Spouse]

That doesn't sound overstocked to me, especially with your water change schedule.

 

[Ny82]

That doesn't sound overstocked to me, especially with your water change schedule.

Thanks. I am always a bit wary to put my stock in case I get slaughtered for being so overstocked! That's put me at ease a bit with these mollies, I have gotten quite attached to them, will be sad when they go back.

 

[This Old Spouse]

The only problem I have with your stocking is the numbers of each species. I'm sure you've seen in this forum that cory need to be in groups of at least 6.

 

[Ny82]

The only problem I have with your stocking is the numbers of each species. I'm sure you've seen in this forum that cory need to be in groups of at least 6.

Yeah I have been trying to get the cories numbers up. I only have 1 bronze-I can't find any bronze at the pets at home or dobies near me or in the next town. I was lucky to get him in the first place, the aquatics shop who is shut down now only had the one cory and it was him.
I have 2 sodalis which were the only ones there and they are quite rare as it is and I cannot find them anywhere either, and the others are ambiacus which again I can't find. There only seems to be peppered and albino now

I have had them since november as that group and they seem happy enough, swimming around, digging, eating algae wafers and shrimp!

 

[This Old Spouse]

I have the same problem with my ambiacus and delphax. They came in a shipment with a bunch of other cory to my LFS and he didn't even know what they were. I think they're wonderful and wish I could find more. I might go for aquabid sometime, but I've never dealt with them so I'm a little reluctant. Other people here say they have great luck with them though.

I sure wish I could trade some of my bronze for peppers!

 

[Ny82]

I have the same problem with my ambiacus and delphax. They came in a shipment with a bunch of other cory to my LFS and he didn't even know what they were. I think they're wonderful and wish I could find more. I might go for aquabid sometime, but I've never dealt with them so I'm a little reluctant. Other people here say they have great luck with them though.

I sure wish I could trade some of my bronze for peppers!

Aww I hate that. They had my ambiacus labelled as "leopard cory"
Yeah I love my cories - esp the sodalis - the spiral pattern they have is amazing. They all follow each other and love going through the bubbles!
I have heard a lot of positive feedback about aquabid, I wish we something like that in the UK

 

[Scales9]

I know and I keep looking at them but, my tank has guppies and well only one Molly now , so i didn't want to fill the tank with all fish that swim in the middle or top, so am finishing off the tank with Cory's that will add a little something to the bottom. NEED A BIGGER TANK!

Lol I will freely admit I am overstocked but my parameters are fine. I have only got a 64L tank with:
1 endler
1 male guppy
2 female guppies
2 small lyretail mollies who have been in my temp care for about 2 weeks but I haven't heard back from my mate when he's taking them back They are the size of platies.
5 cories
and of course my 8 fry who will be going to the petshop in a few weeks and my 10 fry in the trap!

To look at - the tank always looks empty they are always swimming about amongst the plants and stuff. I do a 10% water change every morning due to the fry and I do a 50% change every sunday so I think I am fine for just now.

I have 2 BN pleco, 3 black skirt Tetra2 powder blue dwarf gourami6 neon tetra2 m guppies5 f guppies1 dalmation MollyAnd 4 cories... Oh and 3 red cherry shrimp all in my 55g. Do 3 water changes a week usually 15 - 20 g at a time and only the frequently because of all the pleco poo....

My 10 currently has my 5 f guppies until they drop some fry......soon please!My 20 g has 17 guppy fry (3 weeks old) and 4 Molly fry (5 weeks old.)

 

[Ny82]

I know and I keep looking at them but, my tank has guppies and well only one Molly now , so i didn't want to fill the tank with all fish that swim in the middle or top, so am finishing off the tank with Cory's that will add a little something to the bottom. NEED A BIGGER TANK!

Lol I will freely admit I am overstocked but my parameters are fine. I have only got a 64L tank with:
1 endler
1 male guppy
2 female guppies
2 small lyretail mollies who have been in my temp care for about 2 weeks but I haven't heard back from my mate when he's taking them back They are the size of platies.
5 cories
and of course my 8 fry who will be going to the petshop in a few weeks and my 10 fry in the trap!

To look at - the tank always looks empty they are always swimming about amongst the plants and stuff. I do a 10% water change every morning due to the fry and I do a 50% change every sunday so I think I am fine for just now.

I have 2 BN pleco, 3 black skirt Tetra2 powder blue dwarf gourami6 neon tetra2 m guppies5 f guppies1 dalmation MollyAnd 4 cories... Oh and 3 red cherry shrimp all in my 55g. Do 3 water changes a week usually 15 - 20 g at a time and only the frequently because of all the pleco poo....

My 10 currently has my 5 f guppies until they drop some fry......soon please!My 20 g has 17 guppy fry (3 weeks old) and 4 Molly fry (5 weeks old.)

I think it just depends-if you are committed to doing the water changes and keeping the tank clean then fine.

 

[Scales9]

I know and I keep looking at them but, my tank has guppies and well only one Molly now , so i didn't want to fill the tank with all fish that swim in the middle or top, so am finishing off the tank with Cory's that will add a little something to the bottom. NEED A BIGGER TANK!

Lol I will freely admit I am overstocked but my parameters are fine. I have only got a 64L tank with:
1 endler
1 male guppy
2 female guppies
2 small lyretail mollies who have been in my temp care for about 2 weeks but I haven't heard back from my mate when he's taking them back They are the size of platies.
5 cories
and of course my 8 fry who will be going to the petshop in a few weeks and my 10 fry in the trap!

To look at - the tank always looks empty they are always swimming about amongst the plants and stuff. I do a 10% water change every morning due to the fry and I do a 50% change every sunday so I think I am fine for just now.

I have 2 BN pleco, 3 black skirt Tetra2 powder blue dwarf gourami6 neon tetra2 m guppies5 f guppies1 dalmation MollyAnd 4 cories... Oh and 3 red cherry shrimp all in my 55g. Do 3 water changes a week usually 15 - 20 g at a time and only the frequently because of all the pleco poo....

My 10 currently has my 5 f guppies until they drop some fry......soon please!My 20 g has 17 guppy fry (3 weeks old) and 4 Molly fry (5 weeks old.)

I think it just depends-if you are committed to doing the water changes and keeping the tank clean then fine.

Exactly, I am trying to keep the main tank under stocked a little as I do want to keep some of our babies. If and when my husband ever manages to Finnish our basement I will have the room for a bigger tank but he has been working on it for 4 years now so not holding my breath.

 

[Ny82]

Exactly, I am trying to keep the main tank under stocked a little as I do want to keep some of our babies. If and when my husband ever manages to Finnish our basement I will have the room for a bigger tank but he has been working on it for 4 years now so not holding my breath.

Aww he's taking his time and doing it right lol. I live in a flat I don't have space for a bigger tank (unless I got rid of the sound system which is taking up one wall...hmmm...)
I need to be realistic though. The thing stopping me is if I move to somewhere bigger-how am I taking it with me lol. Oh the just the thought of it makes me nervous

 

[Scales9]

Exactly, I am trying to keep the main tank under stocked a little as I do want to keep some of our babies. If and when my husband ever manages to Finnish our basement I will have the room for a bigger tank but he has been working on it for 4 years now so not holding my breath.

Aww he's taking his time and doing it right lol. I live in a flat I don't have space for a bigger tank (unless I got rid of the sound system which is taking up one wall...hmmm...)
I need to be realistic though. The thing stopping me is if I move to somewhere bigger-how am I taking it with me lol. Oh the just the thought of it makes me nervous

Don't think I will ever move again!! The move from England to Calgary 4 years ago was enough to last me a lifetime.

 

[Scales9]

Forgot to tell you, one of my girls looks like she swallowed a marble...think she is getting close

 

[Ny82]

Forgot to tell you, one of my girls looks like she swallowed a marble...think she is getting close

oooh that's good news! Hopefully it's not too much longer!
My cobra female will probably drop next week. I doubt it's going to be tomorrow when i'm away lol. She isn't as big as my blond female was so I am hoping she has another week or so to go. I will upload a video later to show them all.

 

[Ny82]

I suppose I better put pictures up since this is a guppy fry journal!
Here they are. 6 weeks old today.

These are the biggest ones, you can see how big they are compared to the female

This fry is quite chunky, it has a blue tail with a red bar at the top

This is the fry I am keeping. The only one with a full red tail

This is the cobra female in question. This was her last week.

This is her today - obv not as big so i'm guessing 1-2 weeks?

I thought I would include a pic of the mollies who were a different colour when they arrived but they are now a steel blue, shimmery colour with green. I have gotten quite attached to them. I am sure they are brother and sister. Will be sad when they have to go back

This is the male, he's beautiful, long flowing fins. He's very social, comes to the front when I go upto the tank.

and the female. She's still not used to me yet, very shy. She changes colour-steel grey-white.