New To Guppies

[shailyn2005]

so I'm quite new to guppies, I'm setting up a 30 gallon at the moment with a heater and filter and soon I'll be getting bubbles in there. my cousin breeds guppies and has way too many in his fry tank so he's givin me a bag full for me to raise. I wanted the temperature at 26 but so far my heater has only heated it up to 24 and I'm not sure if it wil get any warmer. so does anyone have any suggestions? anything I should be carefully about? Im not really expecting all the baby's to live anyways but itd be nice to have a couple survive

 

[KrystaK]

Assumign the heater is full sized (About a foot long) It should have some form of temperature control that you can turn up which should help (It took me a long time to find me lol)
Another suggestion would be (If the filter has various settings0 set it on a low setting, Guppy fry aren't the strongest swimmers so they may get sucked in if the pull is too strong.)
Also, have a lot of hiding places, even if there are no other fish in the tank, fry generally like to hide

 

[veeja111]

When I first had fry I put a nylon over my pump intake, had to clean alot but no fry got sucked up, I soon found i had so many babies I quit worrying about losing any, so far I have taken two bags of 50 each to the lfs. seperated males and females but 1 male platy pretended to be female to stay in female tank. so am still getting platty babies. I have tried lots of different kinds of fish. I enjoy ones that multiply rather than die off. enjoy you will soon have too many, soon you may want to seperate males and females so you don't get inbreeding. means 2nd tank good luck and have fun

 

[shailyn2005]

I found the gage on my heater but it's a 24 hour wait to see if it's warm enough hopefully my heater is capable of 26 degrees. also if I get too many baby's and my tanks overflowing my brother said hel take as many as I need him too

 

[Symo420]

24C is perfect for guppies, so there's no drama

 

[OldMan47]

I always run a guppy tank art around 22C. There is no good reason to heat a guppy tank any higher really. You can slightly speed growth at higher temperatures but will also shorten the fish's life span by doing so. Everything moves faster at higher temperatures, within reason.