My Guppy Fry Journal

[OldMan47]

Don't forget to also give your fry some of the flake food. A strict diet of frozen food is not good for them. None of the frozen foods are really complete foods.

 

[Ny82]

Don't forget to also give your fry some of the flake food. A strict diet of frozen food is not good for them. None of the frozen foods are really complete foods.

Hi Oldman, my fry are fed tetra min baby food first thing in the morning, then again at about 2pm, then at dinner time they get the frozen daphnia, and last thing at night they get the flake again

So yesterday I was away to a meet with the car forum I am with, before I went I noticed the square female behaving rather odd, just hiding amongst the plants and the males round her, she kept just hovering there. I said to my boyfriend-she is ready and i'll probably have fry when I get home. Lo and behold when my friend and I got home, the female was skinny and still alive thankfully and then we kept finding fry after fry. I just put another 5 in this morning I think I have about 22 now! (according to my boyfriend we have thousands )
10 babies a week old and about 10/11 babies at a day old. Phew!

 

[FishFanatic04]

Yay!! Congrats on the new fry!

 

[Ny82]

Yay!! Congrats on the new fry!

Thanks. I have never witnessed a birth but common sense told me something wasn't right, she wasn't particularly huge but the way she was acting made me suspicious. Just hanging about the plants I knew i'd have fry when I came back.
Last night I was out and I came back this morning and my boyfriend was in a panic, said he was trying to catch the others and a few were eaten. That doesn't matter really as we have plenty lol
I am about to give them a snack and then i'll clean the box again.

 

[Ny82]

Here is a little video of my babies!

http/s1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa466/TiggsGTI/New%20tank%20progress/?action=view&current=VIDEO0120.mp4

Thanks

 

[Neptune54]

They are soooo adorable! Congratulations!

 

[Ny82]

They are soooo adorable! Congratulations!

Thankyou, i'm so over the moon. I came from not being able to keep guppies alive for more than a few hours to them being healthy and reproducing in my tank. I'm so thrilled also that the female didn't die. I was so worried about her but she's doing fine-no sunken belly or anything

 

[Ny82]

So this morning as I lift the lid to clean the babies net, I see 4 or 5 little babies swimming about outside the net in the main tank. I think the really tiny ones are getting out through the mesh. The adults don't seem to be paying them much attention so i'm not going to draw attention by trying to chase them with a net. They can stay where they are. That way I can compare what the babies are like growing both inside and outside the net (if they don't get eaten )

 

[Neptune54]

Hope it works out!

 

[Ny82]

Hope it works out!

Thanks they seem to have no sense of danger, they are out in the open, under the filter darting about with my baby platy who will be 7 weeks old

 

[Neptune54]

Thanks they seem to have no sense of danger, they are out in the open, under the filter darting about with my baby platy who will be 7 weeks old
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Typical fry! Always getting into trouble!

 

[OldMan47]

I never do anything to separate guppy fry from the main tank. Well fed adult guppies are no threat at all to fry and anything less than well fed adults really means I have not been paying close enough attention to a breeding tank. At reasonable stocking levels, you can expect a fairly high survival rate among typical fry.

 

[Ny82]

I never do anything to separate guppy fry from the main tank. Well fed adult guppies are no threat at all to fry and anything less than well fed adults really means I have not been paying close enough attention to a breeding tank. At reasonable stocking levels, you can expect a fairly high survival rate among typical fry.

I'm so surprised the adults are too busy swimming into the stream, they don't pay attention to the 4 or 5 fry that are darting about. Sometimes they will chase them for a few seconds then go back to what they were doing.

I am a bit concerned today. I used to do a water change once a week on a sunday. Since the babies have been here I do it every day and clean the breeder net every day as it gets so dirty and the water is so dirty in the main tank when I syphon it out and I don't know why but there's excess food on the plants and stuff so it must be the tetra min. I feed the adults once, a small pinch of flake. The babies get the tetra min/ crushed flake about 3 or 4 times a day. I maybe need to stop doing it so much.
Also I have one female guppy who has little white dots all over her tail. I have never seen it before and nobody else has it-what could this be?
Thanks

 

[This Old Spouse]

It sounds like ich on the tail. Also called white spot. You should probably quarantine her right away. Then follow instructions here.

 

[Ny82]

It sounds like ich on the tail. Also called white spot. You should probably quarantine her right away. Then follow instructions here.

Oh no, I have no hospital tank but my friend has. I'll phone him to bring it over (it's only one of the small spongebob tanks you get from pets at home). He finishes at half 5.
Are there any other symptoms as she is zipping about fine and eating well. At this moment in time shall I turn the tank up in temp? Sorry if i'm babbling away-i've never had it before and I have so many babies