Trouble With Guppies And Platys

[Tarps]

I have a 57 litre tank set up with 10 Guppies and 5 Platys in with a mixture of males and females, but despite plenty of them looking heavily pregnant for weeks there is never any young. The water temp is 24-25 degrees celsius and i am feeding them on flake and crushed pellets. Is there anything I can do to induce them to give birth??

 

[helterskelter]

If their fat I'm sure you just missing them and the other fish are eating the babies as their born.

Please if possible avoid breeder traps these are very stressful. Please get an 18x12x12 inch tank and put a female in there when their looking very fat, you can remover her then add another female when you want.

 

[XFiSh_CichildX]

they like bloodworm aswell thats what i feed mine lol

 

[OldMan47]

Tarps, if you really want to raise fry, try isolating your female to her own drop tank, with no other fish present. If you have seen my pinned thread on a molly from drop to drop, you must be aware that until I isolated that female she was in my big community tank for well over 6 months with never a sign of any fry. Once I had her isolated on her own, it was a matter of weeks before I could start recording her drop progress with tons of nice viable fry present. If you do not protect your common livebearer fry rather well, you will never see any. Goodeids, my real passion, break this pattern by having huge fry and little fry predation, because of the size of the newborns. I find that almost any of the goodeids will reproduce quite nicely in a colony situation with no trouble, but that is not true of the more common livebearers.