How long has any one kept a fancy guppy ?

[Davey]

How long did they live if any one had any ?

[Serrateeth_2002]

Few days but those were feeders,non feeders are also few days.

[NJ Devils Fan]

like 5 days

[Serrateeth_2002]

The fun thing about guppies is seeing them run for their lifes,being chased by a predator then being chomped on and seeing the remains getting spit out by the predator,Is it just me or does anybody else thinks so,IMO guppies are boring without anything eating them.

[goldfries]

haha. such cruelty. i only do that to ugly fish or maybe something that i don't want.

i don't know why i used to give dead fish from my other tanks to my oscar, now i don't do it any more as i just realized death could be caused by disease and i don't want my oscar to be unhealthy.

sorry for straying away from topic. i kept my guppy for many months, but they're not so hardy in indoor tanks IMHO. but i've seen guppys in the outdoors doing superbly well.

there's this friend of mine who has plenty of guppies outdoor, but when he took a few into his indoor aquarium it died really soon.

it's really not a water parameter issue since the outdoor water was not maintained in the 1st place, it's more like a natural pond of water. no filtration no nothing. just water and fish.

hehe..........i guess guppies are powered by sunlight. :D

[Darkangel]

The longest I have had a guppy survive for was 18 monthes. That is pretty good for them but I think the most is about 3 years.

[rockhead44]

I have some females that have to be about 1 and a half to 2 years olds,The males usually last about a year or less.The males seem to die early then the females.Not sure why but I do have few that are about a year and a half.They do better with a low populated tank.A lot has to do with your original stock.That is my take what about everyone else?

[Ashes]

My females live for a little over a year. The males last about a year or a little less, it seems.

[ewok]

i have had very little luck with them personally. they are nowhere near as hardy as any of my other fish. it seems like if you look at them funny they float. heh, they remind me of oto's. =/

i have some females still surviving from a guppy breeding experiment for feeders, but they only seem to last me a month or 2, i'm not totally sure why the last set of males died, but they only seemed to last about a month actually. maybe the tank needs to be nuked or something, it had snakeheads and alot of feeders go through it over time, maybe something i cant see was left behind. when mine die it seems to be around water changes generally, but i have since changed the substrate and totally cleaned the tank with water in it, as i suspected there was bad bacteria in the substrate at one time. i also run the water to flush the pipes and use the right temp water with stresscoat as dechlorinator, occasionally a little salt. the readings all seem to be normal.......

i never lose fish in any of the other tanks, even around water changes........

i would be interested in everyone else experiences as it seems impossible for me to get it right with them. :(

[famman]

I have 2 fancy male guppies that I can't kill no matter what I do wrong. They maintain the quarantine tank.
Otos on the other hand I kill no matter how much care I take. They always die during water changes.
I have recently heard that when you add dechloraminator to water with chloramine it will release ammonia. If this is true it might explain my sudden oto deaths. Has anyone else heard this or had similiar experiences?
:)

[goldfries]

i find guppies are not hardy fish, though some sites and people say they are.

i find goldfish to be hardy fish, though many sites and people say they need intensive and delicate care.

i guess they have(goldfish) survive well cos they have so little aggression. my oscars died a lot, many due to my current guy who likes to beat up practically anything, including oscars almost its size.

heh, is it just me or u people face the same too?

[ewok]

Originally posted by famman
I have recently heard that when you add dechloraminator to water with chloramine it will release ammonia. If this is true it might explain my sudden oto deaths. Has anyone else heard this or had similiar experiences?
:)

it is true, when you add dechlorinator to water with chloramines it releases ammonia. if you suspect this to be the case i think a simple test like dechlorinating a bucket of water and testing it for ammonia might show the presense of chloramines. or possibly using a better dechlorinator, or something specific for the chloramines, maybe something like "amquel"........

unfortunately i seriously doubt this is the case in my situation tho.

[Serrateeth_2002]

Guppies are hardy because they are found in drains,it is strange those in aquariums don't live as long as the ones in drains and ponds,maybe because of lack of salt?They are brackish,most people think they are FW.

[Clownloach458]

. The one i have in my 20g tank has lived for aout 3 months and is doing prety good, and my others lived about 1 month :(, but still, ive got the feeling this one is gonna live for a while :) oh yeah and another thing, mine has lived through about a 95% water change when he lived in the 5 gallon

[Darkangel]

Sorry Serrateeth_2002 but you are mistaken. Guppies are not a brackish water fish. Perhaps you find some in that sort of water where you live but that is not their naturel habitat. Guppies are from freshwater in their original naturel habitat. Yes they are very hardy particularly in the wild form. They can tolerate salt which does not mean they are brackish. The problem with fancy guppies has more to do with where and how they are produced then anything else. These fish are bred in large numbers in places like Singapore, where a lot of different foods are used, like bloodworms and such which may contain harmful organisms. Another practice seems to be to feed the fish steroids so they colour up quickly. We know the kinds of problems this causes in humans so imagine what it does in fish. Buy locally bred fancy guppies, keep them under great conditions and see how long they last. I just looked into what my oldest guppy truly is and it is an albino female that I recieved 26 months ago. She was very young at the time, less then a month though. The main problem with keeping guppies healthy and long is the enviroments they are kept in.

[Serrateeth_2002]

You must be talking about feeders,it is better to keep them in brackish i mean,they tend to grow white rings around the eyes that look like fungus,salt inhibits the growth.Fancy breeds are line bred A grade fish+A grade fish=A grade fish,pure wild strains are much hardier than line bred ones.