Best food for conditioning guppies?

[thecowman]

I recently purchased a trio of guppies from my LFS. I am wondering what the best thing to feed them would be in order to get them into top breeding condition. I currently feed freeze dried bloodworms and tetramin pro tropical crisps. I would prefer to use non-live food for the sake of simplicity. They are all of decent size, the females a bit over an inch and the male around one inch in length.

[tricksterpup]

The 2 foods you have listed are very good foods. I would also feed them an alage based flake food. Guppies, like most livebearers, need their greens. So feed them a mix of foods that you have, and you shouldn't have any problems.
My live bearers get basically the same foods, I give them a freezed dried daphnia, A basic tropical flake and an alage based flake and they are all doing well.
I keep the following:
Mollies, Poecilia latipinna and Poecilia sphenops
the Merry Widow Phallichthys amates ametes
Endlers
swordtails
Least Killifish Heterandria formosa, the smallest live bearer.
and Guppies.

As you can tell i have a few livebearers here, all started with guppies. I hope this will turn you onto more unique live bearers as time passes by. Good luck with them and if you ever have any questions send an email or feel free to ask.

jim

[wetmanNY]

I agree that your basic regimen sounds good. For greens I'd add slices of zucchini and shredded spinach. I'd also make the freeze-dried daphnia part of the basic plan: chitin keeps the guppies lean.