Feeder Guppies are generally highly inbred, disease ridden, poorly raised fish that are not fit for anything to eat. If you are interested in breeding your own feeders, find a store that sells quality guppies (or another species of livebearer fish) and pickup a dozen females and a few males. You'll likely need to add in new females every half year as the constant breeding shortens their lifespan significantly. Keep them in a plain tank with a large clump of live floating plants, and a clump of yarn on the bottom. This will give the young refuge from the adults. Feed live brine shrimp for good growth rates.
Feeder guppies die so fast.
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CathyGo;2166129; said:With 50 fish pooping and peeing in the bag you will lose them pretty quick due to ammonia. Ask them to bag them in smaller lots. 25 in a big bag isn't that bad. When you get them home put them in fresh water not the high ammonia water in the bag. You won't be able to keep 50 guppies in a small uncycled tank for long. Maybe buy 5 or so to cycle the tank and gradually build it up. There are some nice diy filters on this site. Salt helps too.
Some places just sell bad feeders. Check out the other stores in your area. Or find a breeder and get their culls.
Thanks! Thats great advice. Hope it goes well.
I've often seen a bunch of feeder guppies dead in one tank at this wierd LFS. I literally saw one swim to the pile of dead ones and immediatly die. I'm not really sure, but I guess you should get rid of the dead ones as quickly as possible so if the sickness is contageus the other ones won't catch it. That's just what I think though.
feeder fish are diseased and not really fit for long term keeping, so I would agree with everyone else here and say buy good quality guppies or sword tails and platies and just breed from good stock and be done with it.
idk cus i breed feeder guppies in ponds and from the store i usually do have any die. it probably is the water condition
They gave birth to 4 frys. I think that's really weird cos isn't it supposed to give birth to like 50-80 at a time? There is only 4. 1 fry died already.
Well never actually tried t raise them. I know there bread low class and are only ment for feeding. Dont know much else tough
