Guppie BABIES!!! :D

[VivaLaVics]

YAY! I just noticed in my 10 gallon planted that there are 4 guppie babies!!!

:headbang2:

I didnt even know there were eggs.... I was using the feeder guppies to cycle and then just left them in the tank as I couldn't feed them to my cichlids as originally planned.... my heart is to big for fish.... so, apparently they are quite happy in their new home and have had babies... I've only every dealt with mouth-brooding cichlid fry so I have no clue what to do... food??? Anything I need to know from anyone who has had guppie babies? lol.

Tried to get pics but they were too tiny- didnt show up!!!

Thanks for reading!

 

[bluekrissyspike]

congrats. you didn't see eggs because there weren't eggs. guppies have live babies and lots of them. they'll eat fish flakes, but if you aren't gonna feed em you will have to figure out something else to do with them. they breed like crazy and you'll have dozens of them soon.

 

[jackiomy]

congrats. you didn't see eggs because there weren't eggs. guppies have live babies and lots of them. they'll eat fish flakes, but if you aren't gonna feed em you will have to figure out something else to do with them. they breed like crazy and you'll have dozens of them soon.

They need somewhere to hide because the parent fish will eat them. I always just figured the strongest would survive. They are so cute. I know that some babies go to the bottom to hide in caves and such but baby guppies like to hide in floating plants on the top of the water. So anachris is good or hornwort or guppy grass. And I think they are omnivores so they need protein in their food.

 

[VivaLaVics]

Thank you both!!! Good to know about the floating plants. Now I need to decided if I want to get into guppy breeding.... not sure if they are so prolific...

 

[ctbestfisherman]

Yes they are prolific I am currently breeding feeder/ wild type guppies. Pretty soon a 10 gallon will be to small to house them. Even though you only got 4 babies the next batch might be 20 and even more the next time. Here are some pics of mine.
Male

Females larger less colorful ones.

And some babies.

 

[kyryah]

Ha ha, I remember my first 4-5 babies... and the next 10, and the next 20... I have two girls that now consistently give me 25-50 babies each. They can have up to 100 at a time.

You could always cull out and rehome your females, and do a male only display tank.

Kristina

 

[excuzzzeme]

I feed my guppy fry decapsulated baby brine eggs (thanks FT). I also feed "Hikari First Bites". I got tired of never having any on hand (thats when the babies show up!), so I just ground my flake food up into a real fine powder. It worked just fine.

Yes, the parents will eat the fry and I leave mine in the tank so that nature decides on who makes it. It really slows the pace of the population and there will be survivors. I still feed them anyhow. If I have too many they either go to the LFS or become Oscar snacks.

 

[VivaLaVics]

excuzzzeme, i think i'll be going more your direction in general with the guppies. Let nature do its thing and let the strong survive. (I do that with my cichlids when they breed... now I have a tank full of awesome survivor fishes.)

Kyr: i'll probably remove some females if it gets out of control- so that I limit how many fish can have fry at one time. Good idea!

ctbest: I think I've seen your guppies in another post! I really like them! I have one that looks a little like your first pic- he's really neat!!!

 

[bluekrissyspike]

just out of curiosity, what kind of guppies do you have?

 

[VivaLaVics]

Well, I bought 10 "feeder guppies" at my lfs for $1.50. One of them has half a black body and bright blue fanned tail and a few others look similar to the kind ctbest posted above. but 1/2 of them are just clearish silver. So some are really neat and other are not- not sure what they are- just bought them to cycle and planned on feeding them to the cichlids when the cycle was over... I just cant bring myself to doing that so now they have a 10 gallon planted to themselves. Do you know what they are? Here are a few pics: