What To Do?

[becca320]

Help please I have 2 female guppies heavily pregnant in a "nursing" tank, they have been happy and content in this tank for over a week. Tonight we have about 5 - 6 babies !! Yee ha at last , but now i dont know what to do , they seem to have stopped having the babies, so I have put them into the breeder trap (both are still very fat , I dont know which one it is that has "dropped" so thought would be best to seperate them from the existing fry to stop them being eaten , now nothing is happening other than both mums seem to be getting stressed , What chances do they have if I leave them to it and set them free from the trap??? There are some plants to hide in but the babies are seeming to enjoy swimming around!!!! they certainly are not hiding!!!

 

[stiffler69]

Help please I have 2 female guppies heavily pregnant in a "nursing" tank, they have been happy and content in this tank for over a week. Tonight we have about 5 - 6 babies !! Yee ha at last , but now i dont know what to do , they seem to have stopped having the babies, so I have put them into the breeder trap (both are still very fat , I dont know which one it is that has "dropped" so thought would be best to seperate them from the existing fry to stop them being eaten , now nothing is happening other than both mums seem to be getting stressed , What chances do they have if I leave them to it and set them free from the trap??? There are some plants to hide in but the babies are seeming to enjoy swimming around!!!! they certainly are not hiding!!!

Leave the parents in the trap but turn out the lights as soon as the lights are out they may start dropping fry again guppy fry do like to be out in the open swimming around and this is why so many get eaten.

You will find once there is a darker and less movement around them they will settle

 

[dortiz24]

I have guppies too. If you have a part of your tank with a lot of plants in one area you won't have to worry about fry being eaten. I have several who are a few weeks old and were born in the tank. I also have several in a fry tank in which I put the mother in there, free swimming, to have her babies. No breeding trap.

They are probably stressed. I'd let them free until you see more babies, then put them back in the nurser. They could drop fry over a period of a few days or in an hour. I had a guppy who gave birth for almost a week! I didn't think she'd ever stop having babies! lol

Congrats and good luck!

 

[becca320]

Thanks for the replies, I left them last night turned the lights out, Gout up this morning and there are about 7 more fry but they are not staying in the bottom of the trap, Just saw one being eaten ... not nice so I dont know how many got gobbled up overnight , thinking I will let them all out of the trap and let them just take their chances in the plants later ... not too sure though they are so cute I just want to do whatever I can to protect them, but darent try and get them with the net to seperate as they seem so delicate ... And I thought having Human Children was difficult !!!!!!!!

 

[dortiz24]

You could get them with the net, it just might take awhile. For little guys the dart pretty fast. lol And when the hide in the plants it's easy to lose track of them. It usally takes me about 5 minutes to catch a fry. Just do it gently and with patience.