So The Guppies Are At It Like Rabbits Eh

[The chilly dipper]

could anyone please share the ins and outs of guppy breeding.
just for info thats all. temperature,sexing and food for fry ect...

thank you as allways guys

 

[fluttermoth]

Sexing all livebearers is dead easy as the males have a gonopodium; that's a rod like structure formed from the anal fin (the one in front of the tail, on the belly of the fish). Females have a normal, fan shaped fin.

As for getting them to breed...make sure you keep them wet? The fry are pretty big and don't need any special food. They'll either find enough in the tank (especially if you have live plants) or, for best growth, grind up a good quality flake.

If you want to breed some kind of special colour or tail shape, ah, then that's a whole different ball game, and you'll need lots of tanks for keeping males and females separate and for growing on fry.

 

[keimak]

In where I live, if you just keep guppies for fun.
You just have to get 1 male and 1 female and it'll just 'do it' and you'll have new batch every month provided you have a big planted tank
And like fluttermoth said, if you trying to breed a special kind, its totally different

 

[The chilly dipper]

so if i went out and got a female guppy would she already be pregnant?
but surely they must be seperated from the boys lol.

i hear its best to keep two females with one male to prevent stress or somthing is this true?

 

[Binge]

Thats the ratio everything I have read on em says to do 2 to 1.

 

[fluttermoth]

so if i went out and got a female guppy would she already be pregnant?
but surely they must be seperated from the boys lol.

i hear its best to keep two females with one male to prevent stress or somthing is this true?

Most female guppies are already pregnant when you buy them, yes. It's quite hard to spararte guppies before they're able to mate, and most commercial breeders (for pet shops, not the show guppies) don't bother.

Don't forget female guppies can store 'packets' of sperm and can carry on producing fry for about six months after being separated from the males.
Male guppies are sex mad they think about nothing else really, so you need to have more females then males, or the males just won't leave them alone and the females do get stressed from the constant attention.

They're not caled 'millions fish' for nothing, you know!

 

[The chilly dipper]

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Most female guppies are already pregnant when you buy them, yes. It's quite hard to spararte guppies before they're able to mate, and most commercial breeders (for pet shops, not the show guppies) don't bother.

Don't forget female guppies can store 'packets' of sperm and can carry on producing fry for about six months after being separated from the males.
Male guppies are sex mad they think about nothing else really, so you need to have more females then males, or the males just won't leave them alone and the females do get stressed from the constant attention.

They're not caled 'millions fish' for nothing, you know!
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really thats what theyre called lol. haha

its amazing how long the sperm can live for too if 6 months is what they store it for lol.

hmm guppies are beautifull fish too.

sex mad guppies haha

 

[seizethecupcake]

I dearly love guppies...but I keep all males

 

[The chilly dipper]

went into my LFS yesterday to get another black moore and i saw these tuxedo guppies......

OH MY GOD NO NEED FOR HOW BEAUTIFULL THEY ARE !!!!!!
ahem hmm hmm..
sorry.

they are super fish they were 6 for a tenner.
great fish indeed

 

[OldMan47]

If you see a guppy that you like, and don't already have a bunch of guppies, bring home a pair. Place that pair in a small tank alone and a few months later it can look like this. I remove all adult guppies from this 10 gallon tank every 3 or 4 months to sell at a club auction. The end result is an endless supply of adult guppies to sell.

 

[chrisodapz]

Your not wrong my guppies are always at it, It was good the 1st time watching the females lay babies but now they always having them and i thought not many will survive but they do lol

 

[The chilly dipper]

Your not wrong my guppies are always at it, It was good the 1st time watching the females lay babies but now they always having them and i thought not many will survive but they do lol

hehe lol have you experienced" maleless pregnancy"?
to prove the sperm saving theory???