Guppy breeding-help

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ok, i have never bred guppies before, or anything else for that matter :rolleyes: . I am pretty sure that i have an adequate set-up. what i have is a 10 gal tank, planted, a good number of guppies, (15 fem, 5or 6 male) and the heater and filter, or course. I do not have a sponge filter, i have the mini penguin bio-wheel filter and an EBO jager heater-50 watt. I understand that the sponge filter is preferable, and i have one, but i would like to know if you think that it'd be safe to just put in a tank separator, the kind with the small holes in the "blockade" part, that way the babies could swim through. I do have a breeding net too, i could put that in also, but i want to have a few more opinions on what would work best :D also, i have one of those green bubble wands that sits on the bottom of the tank and that creates quite a few bubbles, should i take that out of the tank because it creates so many bubbles, or should it be ok? this is what i mainly have questions on, but ANY information would help me greatly:) thanks everyone!!!!!:p
 
I believe the reason a sponge filter is reccomended is it won't suck up the fry and mash them to bits with the impeller. My personal favorite technique is putting your guppies in a very heavily planted tank( java moss is great) and letting them do what they do. The babies don't have as high of a survival rate, true, but the ones that don't get eaten are the fastest, strongest ones. As for food, for the first few days, they can live on the infusoria and microscopic stuff growing in the java moss. After that, perhaps you could feed crushed flakes mixed with water, directed into the fry hiding place through airline tubing? I've bred guppies before, but nothing really hardcore. so take anything I say with a grain of salt, which may incedentally be helpful to add to your guppy tank ( I think... somebody correct me if I'm wrong)

well, that was my $0.02:)
 
What I do is, when I think that the females look like they are ready to explode with babies, I put them in my 10 gallon tank (almost identical setup to yours) and let them live there for a few days. if you put them in too early, they may get stressed out and abort their brood (happened to me countless times). Anyway, I keep that tank well planted and see if the mother gives birth, otherwise, back into the main tank.

Just don't use those wretched breeding boxes. They never work. My guppies just get stressed out and then dont go through with their brood.
 
I Put mine in a breeder net until the babies were born. Then i put them into a 2.5 tank. feed them flakes the whole time After a year all but one has died. They all matured though.
 
get a handful of hornwort and allow that to float or you can sink it. either way it creates an environment only fry can "infiltrate". it's prettymuch impossible not to get guppies to breed so don't overthink yourself, you will have more than you can handle in no time at all. Kyle
 
15 females? Unless you are trying to start a large scale breeding operation to give to the entire population of Minnesota, I would suggest you take some of those back if possible.

Aaron
 
Originally posted by Hebdizzle
15 females? Unless you are trying to start a large scale breeding operation to give to the entire population of Minnesota, I would suggest you take some of those back if possible.

Aaron
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I was thinking the same thing. Wow.. I just had one female drop over 50 fry last week. I wouldn't even want to imagine the amount of fry 15 females could produce.. and on a monthly basis at that. :eek:
 
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