My Guppy Had Babies!!!!!

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I'm so excited! :dance She FINALLY had her babies! I've been watching this partcular fish for what seems like forever. When she started getting REALLY big, like I thought she might pop, I put her into one of those clear plastic fry tanks that seperates mom fromthe babies once they're born. I've been checking her several times daily with no babies. Finally this morning, I left to take my son to school and came home about 1/2 hour or so later and saw tiny babies in the bottom of the tank. Now I have another female who's getting big so I'll be putting her in there soon.

Should I move the babies out of the clear fry tank into a net rearer thing? I'm curious how everyone else raises their baby guppies.

Thanks
 
Congrats! I'm not to sure about the fry raising thing, but I'm pretty sure you can take the fry out of the clear fry tank and into the baby rearer, but its your call.
 
Congratulations! How many babies are we talking about? The net rearer is better than the plastic holder because of more circulation; it will keep water conditions better for them. Ideally, if you want to keep ALL the babies and have them grow their best, their own separate cycled tank would be better still. My experience is that babies raised in their own tank, or just the couple who survive on their own in the main tank, grow twice as fast as those in a rearing net.
 
I take my fry out and put them in my 5.5g. Its safer than thoes nets because al most no water goes throught them. I feed them liquid fry food for the first 3 days or so. Then I give them baby brine shrimp for the next few weeks. After that I start to feed them crushed flakes. Once they are half the size of the adult size I put them in my main tank. (Mine took 3 months)
 
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Thanks for the replies. I moved the babies from the small plastic birthing tank into the net rearer where they have more room to stretch their fins :) I also have the net rearer in front of the filter output so there's a small current to help with their water exchange. It's not a big current, in fact it's barely noticable so I don't think it'll hurt them any.

Does the baby shrinp have to be live or can it be frozen? I don't have any live (just adult live shrimp) but I can go out tomorrow and get frozen. What about frozen daphnia? Will they eat that?

There are about 20 babies. They all are alive and swimming around, even seen a few of them come up to the surface and nibble some fry food I had from the last attempt.
 
I have guppies and platys in my 55 gallon that I have begun planting with live plants. I do not segregate the pregnant fish at all. I know that some do get eaten. But it is part of life. In the two months that I have had this set up, I have at least 40 fry. All large enough to not be eaten now. And more on the way all the time!!!
 
20 babies, that's great! Frozen food will be fine as long as they can fit it in their mouths. Daphnia may be a bit big (? never used it) but you should be able to 'mush' it with the back of a spoon. Or, the babies will be big enough to eat it soon; or your other fish may enjoy it.
 
update!

Just thought I'd update on my FIRST sucessful Guppy Birthing ...

Today is day 3 of having babies in the nursery. I'm so thrilled! I counted 20 when they were 1st born and there are still 20 in there. Haven't seen any bodies or anything on the bottom of the net nursery. I have been feeding then 4-6 times a day with a powdered fry food from the petstore. I am also trying to hatch my own brine shrimp for them. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they keep doing well.

Q: Does anyone know, is there a period where you would consider the babies "out of the woods" as far as survival wise? I mean, I know they won't be able to go into the main tank with the adults until they are probably a couple months old but ... I know the small they are the more fragile, do they have a better chance of making it to adulthood if they make it through the first week or 2? Just wondering.

Thanks!
 
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