My Guppy Won't Get Pregnant. Help?

[Luke1995]

I have 1 male guppy and 2 female guppies. I have had these guppies for 2 weeks but my fmale guppies don't even look sort of pregnant. There is no sign of pregnancy. When I turn the fishtank light off their gravid spot turns pink but when it is on it turns black. I have a 28 litre tank. The male guppy does not pay any attention to the female guppies. Why are they not getting pregnant Helppp!!!

 

[Verminator89]

Its not just a case of stick them in a tank together and they'll breed. I know they're guppys and all, but even so the conditions have to be right for them. pH, GH, temperature are just a few basic ones that need to be catered for.

 

[Luke1995]

Ok thanks. I might need to turn the temp up

 

[OldMan47]

Unless you have an unusually cold home, the temperature in your tank is likely fine for guppy health. Two weeks is a very short time to be worrying about a guppy female not carrying fry. I seldom notice a female becoming heavy until she is at least that far along, even when I am certain that there has been breeding activity.

 

[Luke1995]

Ok thanks

 

[OldMan47]

BTW. I moved your duplicate post in the species index to our junk pile. Nobody can see a new post in that area until a MOD approves it so the index is a terrible place to ask a question. I almost moved it here until I realized you had asked the same question here.

 

[helterskelter]

Some times feeding poor quality food dont help, and give them more time to settle.
I've had some guppies go 6 months befor producing fry for myself!

Feed live foods like daphonia and/or bloodworm twice a week and feed a good quality food.
Then once they have settled and feed happy to breed your be over run with fry.

 

[Luke1995]

Ok thanks. All I feed them is tropical flakes but i will look for the live or frozen foods as well

 

[biokid101]

my guppies and platies r the same way they dont have more than one batch of fry and they never get pregnant again...i feed mine tropical flakes and freze dried bloodworms and they have healthy fry..well once anyway..o thot they can have fry 6-7 times in one mating

 

[OldMan47]

When it comes to frozen foods, the guppies appreciate smaller types of food like frozen daphnia or frozen mosquito larvae. They also take fresh microworms very well even though microworms are very small compared to their normal foods. I look at it like we might for adults eating mini MMs. Compared to our normal foods, those things are tiny, but because most of us like them, we keep eating them readily anyway.

 

[Luke1995]

Ok thanks. Is there anything around the house you can feed them? Or do you have to go to the shops and buy it

Ok thanks. Is there anything around the house you can feed them? Or do you have to go to the shops and buy it

 

[OldMan47]

If it is summer where you are, take a fish net and go find any bit of stagnant water. Even an old tire that has a bit of rainwater in it will probably have mosquito larvae too. Almost any tropical fish that we keep will go crazy for fresh mosquito larvae. When trying to catch the larvae to feed to your fish, you need to be aware they will go straight to the bottom of the water when anything disturbs the surface. That means you dip your net rather deep or very quickly at the surface, your choice, in order to actually catch them.

 

[helterskelter]

Also you can grow daphina in a water but or anything with lots of green water.
Just buy a bag of live daphina and add then to the water and after 2-3 weeks their be quite a few.

This better than mosquito larvae personalty as once the mosquito's start to hatch their then looking for someone to bite!