What Do Guppy Fry Llok Like?

[Jozlyn]

Made a mistake and posted my original query it TFC! Found a few "tyre kickers"!

Found 2 fry in my tank tonight, about 1.5mm long, only and eyeball and basicaly transparent body, are they guppy fry?

Original post: http/www.fishforums.net/Argh-Quick-Help-t192883.html

 

[*Fishkies*]

Guppy fry are usually transparent as is any fry such as certain platys when they are born. You will have to wait a bit until you will be able to tell.

That is a picture of Guppy Fry!

 

[lilfishie]

if you have a grey bodied female, then the fry will more than likely be grey, if you have a yellow bodied they fry will probably be yellow bodied too, of course it depends on the male too

 

[archamfr]

id say yes. platys and mollies normally come out quite alot bigger + fuller, guppies tend to be a couple dots for eyes and a streak of yellowish/clear body.

 

[kpintheshed]

when i had 4 guppy fry two were yellow and two where grey. lucky if it was 2 males and 2 females

 

[Jozlyn]

Thanks for the pictures Fishkies, I have to be honest and say I don't know if they look like that or not, they're just too tiny to see properly.

I shall have to wait and see then! They're so tiny they're nearly impossible to see, at first I thought it was some kind of bug and tried to suck it up with the gravel vac! When it wouldn't go up the tube I had a closer look and realised it was a fry! So hubby and I had a search around the tank, moved a few things and found another one.

It's definately not Molly fry as molly fry look like mini-mollies from the time they're born and are much bigger.

But as I've never had guppy or platy fry I have no idea what they look like in real life.

These guys (from the side) look like and eyeball with a transparent smudge around them (the body). If they're still alive tonight I'll try to vac' them up and put them in the sieve. There's chances of survival in the "mum's & fry" tank is not good without a bit of intervention. If I manage to get them out I'll take a picture and post it.