No More Guppies :(

[Duck and Dive]

Sadly I have stoped breeding guppies. This is because I have had major problems over he past few weeks. ALL of my guppies have been killed by a massive wipeout of everything, It started when I fed them at around 9pm and noticed that its whole tail had disintegrated between that morning and 9pm. That wiped out most of them, around 20, then they got some bacterial infection and then a disease or virus that made there whole body swell up.

After I only have 5 remaining and 10 babies in a breeding trap. I'm going to sell the 5 healthy remaining to my LFS and then when the babies are at a reasonable size I'm going to sell them as well.

So now I'm going to breed some other things because guppies are too weak now, this is because all of the inbreeding and line breeding have weakened the guppy fish significantly.

This is what I'm going to breed next:

Corydoras

Cherry barb

rosy barbs

Possibly Kribs and plecs

I have now sold all my guppies and got rid of my BiOrb and I now have 3 female rosy barbs and 3 male ones! They have all settled in well.

D&D

 

[lilfishie]

sorry to hear about your losses D&D and shame your not carrying on with the guppies you had some very pretty guys and girls. *hugs*

 

[fry_lover]

Sorry to hear about your troubles, i felt the same way about 2 years ago, almost gave up livebearers altogether, but what i decided to do was get some wild and F1 guppies and platies and take it from there. It cost quite a bit, but 2 years on i don't really have the problems i used to have with LFS purchased guppies and platies.

I would be suprised if your LFS takes the "healthy" guppies, even if they look healthy, i wouldn't touch anything myself that came from a tank with such a heavy death toll, no point taking the risk.

Good luck with future projects.

 

[Duck and Dive]

Thanks, but as I said guppys are very weak nowdays because of so much inbreeding and line breeding that have caused there immune systems to be very weak making them prone to all sorts of diseases. And can be a danger to other species in the tank.

D&D

 

[fry_lover]

Thanks, but as I said guppys are very weak nowdays because of so much inbreeding and line breeding that have caused there immune systems to be very weak making them prone to all sorts of diseases. And can be a danger to other species in the tank.

D&D

Yes that was my conclusion after the reading up i did (lots of reading up). Immune system just shot to peices. I had the same problems with platies.

I was able to keep many kind's of fish perfectly happy and healthy (had almost 10 tanks back in them days) but i couldnt keep guppies and platies healthy! I did a thread once on a forum, something along the lines of "Guppies are harder to keep than Discus!"