Questions On Beeding Guppies

[AngelOfDeath]

I have 1 male and 3 females.

1. have the females reached sexual maturity? they have no colour, and are just greyish
2. how many fry will three females produce each?
3. How many gallons of water is needed for 3 females and a male, (fry will be seperated when given birth to)
4. Do guppies from the same litter breed? or when fry meet sexual maturity will they breed with the original male I used (incestious i know lol)

Thanks.

 

[5teady_2012]

I have 1 male and 3 females.

1. have the females reached sexual maturity? they have no colour, and are just greyish
2. how many fry will three females produce each?
3. How many gallons of water is needed for 3 females and a male, (fry will be seperated when given birth to)
4. Do guppies from the same litter breed? or when fry meet sexual maturity will they breed with the original male I used (incestious i know lol)

Thanks.

1. if they are older than 4-8 weeks the probably yes

2. altogether anywhere from 30-90 (usually a guppy has 10-30 at average) but could be a lot more depending on thier size

3. 5 gallon or more

4. yes they will carry on breeding regardless (plenty of incest they dont care - no fish laws lol)

 

[LauraFrog]

The guppies you can get these days are highly inbred strains, generation after generation father/daughter and brother/sister. This is how the nice traits are cemented so the strains breed true. It's not good practice, at all, and with fish that all look the same (like tetras) the advice is to choose fish from different stores to ensure as non-related as possible. But with livebearers the damage was done years ago, there is no vigour in them anymore so it really doesn't matter. If you have several females, even if all the fry have the same father it's better to breed half siblings rather than full siblings. The more you can keep out the inbreeding the better.

Inbreeding = less vigour and more deformities. The vigour is gone anyway as I said, cull the deformities and you're right. (mine breed indiscriminately except where I'm cementing strains - and then I use close related fry to make it breed true anyway. So I'm just as bad, it's the best way to do it after all.)

 

[AngelOfDeath]

thanks a lot, I was trying to catch the male i bought for atleast 5 mins, i wanted him because he was unique as he was light blue, yellow and green, should be interesting to see how his fry turn out