Looking for advice on Guppies

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  1. Nieu22

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    I recently started a small 2 foot tank just for my guppies. I have two females who i think is highly pregnant. Is there any rules and advice you can give to get to the best breading tank? I have some beautifull males as well. Will they eat the fry or should i keep them in those little net thingies?
     
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    I've been keeping them together for a few months now with no problems that I could see. I don't know if they are eating some of the fry but not worried about it as there are to many to count now.
     
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    I think its safe to get a net for the fry until they grow bigger
     
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    Been reading that although popular those net boxes are apparently very stressful for the female.

    A good option would be to heavily plant the tank.
    A few of the fry may get eaten, but a lot will survive
     
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    I simply caught tje fry intovthe nets the female was free to give birth in the tank
     
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    Once the fry are born, catch the adults and keep them in their own tank.
    Whenever a female is about to pop put her into the fry tank, and remove once she has dropped her fry.

    Alternatively get a lot of hornwort, Cabomba or similar fast growing plants, and fill the tank with that.
    The fry will have a safe place to hide, and they will soon learn to get their food in a particular place.
    Adults can be fed in a seperate corner of the tank.

    Some of the fry might still be eaten, but the majority will survive.
     
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    @Reedfish that's probably what saved mine.
     
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    I do leave my females and males in the same heavily planted tank - most fry do survive.

    Blond/gold bodied fry are being eaten more than grey bodied ones.

    Once you have surviving fry, the surviving rate of new ones is higher. I do believe that the older fry "confuse" the adults.
     
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    @lennard I also picked that up. They started off slowly but when the numbers got more they just kept comming.
     
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    Guppies and open pumps don't go together. Also don't overfeed since I had one lost to bloat. So far I haven't had much luck with 2 dying within a day of addition to the tank (with an hour drip), a third of bloat and a fourth to a pump. I have one survivor a month in
     
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    I have noticed that guppies bought at any LFS tend to be less robust, and die for no apparent reason.
    Fry raised in the tank are almost bulletproof through.

    I wonder if guppies aren't fed all kinds if weird hormones and other nasty stuff to get them to grow faster?
    When they are sent to an LFS, and ultimately you buy them, the water parameters are different enough that they don't survive.
    Those bought already pregnant will drop their fry, and probably not survive for more than a month or 2 at the most.
    Fry that were born to these females have a 50/50 chance of surviving.

    I bought 15 blonde and tuxedo females and 5 males of the same colouration a while ago for a 90m tank that I had set up for them.
    Within days they started dying, with the final female dying last week.
    A large number of fry are still happily thriving in the tank and growing out nicely.
     
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    Hendre Polypterus freak

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    I'm going to avoid them for a while I think and get some dwarf puffers or something small
     
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    @Pezulu It must be something they are doing to them as I have exactly the same experience. The babies that survive are tough as nails and grow out well while the bought parents all die slowly. I have one fish left from my original purchase and even he is starting to do the weird wiggle and bottom laying now.
     
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    Hendre Polypterus freak

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    I only have one left too. Probably giving him away and getting something cool for the 30 litre he lives in

    I only got males so no babies
     
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    I see pet world at N1 got a batch of pea puffers.
     
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    I'm not touching fish there with a stick, specifically puffers, the tank will be used for polypterus quarantine first anyway so I have time to decide
     
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    Hahaha, so true.
     

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