Belonesox fry!

Hollygirl said:
Good Luck!

FYI - Java Moss and Guppy grass will give your guppy fry more hiding places, as will hornwort.

I hope you can post pics of the new arrivals one day :)
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The guppy tank isn't too heavily planted, but it is more planted than most. I keep the guppies really well fed to prevent any cannibalism.

I am not really doing anything with the guppies ATM. I plan on selectively breeding them in the future. These guppies are not intended to breed feeders, I just haven't separated the sexes yet lol.
 
i would try feeding tiny pieces of cut fish to them with tweezers. i would attract them to it by moving it at the surface. best to isolate 2 or 3 and work on those. 50+ is an avg amount of fry for them.
 
Video update, I tried feeding the belonesox microworms, but I don't think they even saw them. I threw a feeder guppy in there to eat the microworms and show the belonesox that they are food. Instead, the belonesox were more interested in the big guppy.

Crappy quality, but the video is still funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LesEKixR9XY
 
Another update, I got some on frozen glassworm and some on frozen bloodworm. Glassworm seems to be preferred. I also am trying cut up live blackworm, it is a pain and very messy though. It seems that almost all of them are eating some kind of worm. A few don't have puffed up little bellys, but hopefully by tomorrow night they will be eating some kind of worm.

I decided that it is unwise to have 60 little piscivorous fry. All of these guys will be weaned onto something easily obtainable (except for maybe a few who will be seperated and be fed fish in their own tank). The ones that I am saving will end up being fed fish (once they are big enough for small rosys incase the store runs out of guppies). So hopefully weaning these guys onto frozen will be the easiest way to go for now.

Also the larger one (maybe 2 months old) just ate a dead guppy from my hand today. Unfortunately I did not realize how long dead the guppy was because when he spit it out it had a little fuzz on it. Next time I will find a fresher one, or just hand feed him a live one.

The picture of the tank does not do justice to the amount of belonesox actually in there. There are many more clumped at the top in little groups. The water level is low because I just vacuumed out all the leftover black/glass/bloodworms that were uneaten. I used about three cubes of frozen worm, and 25mL of solid blackworm.

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Just found out about these awesome little guys, those are some great pictures! Hopefully I will come across them in a pet store sometime soon. I am surprised there aren't more posts about these guys
 
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