guppy tank
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i just put a tank outside all summer with some floating plants and alot of moss i also had a long bushy plant i dont know the name of. leave it our all summer and the plants keep it clean .NO FILTER!!!!!!!!!!! just remember to add some water and make sure its not in direct sunlight too long
Quite possibly, they just had to go. I can't tell you how many times I've caught fat fish with dark gravid spots only to have them go to the bathroom and be skinny and light colored again. Make sure you look as closely as you can at the gravid spot when the aquarium light is on - right before having the fry, you will actually be able to see smaller dots inside the spot - which is actually fry heads. You won't see that if... well... they just had to go.
Keep your head up - they'll have babies - Even if you have no males. Guppies are able to hold pods of sperm inside of them for several months before actually becoming pregnant. One breeding can lead to multiple pregnancies (which can be a pain if you are trying to work on breeding certain colors into your fish, and a female gets had on accident by the wrong male lol)
I actually breed the guppies in 10 gallon tanks. I keep 1 male with 4 females. The females can hold up to 6 packets of sperm from a male so it can take 6 months if the female has been with another male before she starts having fry from the male you put her with. I keep the breeding colonies in tank with an undergravel filter; I put the airstone on one side and hook up an airline. On the other side I put a small powerhead... this draws the water up through the gravel causing it to filter the water better. I only turn the power head on for a couple hours a day. The females should have babies every 28 days or so and you will know that she is close to birthing when the area behind her stomache gets very dark.. when the fry are born I move them to the 20 gallon fry tanks. NOTICE: I do not net the young... I find it does less damage to them to simply syphon the young out of the tank into a container and then dump the container into the fry tank. I can keep tons of fry in the fry tanks and I try to keep the newborns in their own fry tank for a couple weeks before moving them to the juvenile tank, which I keep in there for a couple months, and then they are ready to move into the breed tanks and sale tanks. NOTICE: Guppies are able to reproduce at about 4 weeks so if you are wanting to be careful about which guppies you breed to which, you will need to seperate the males and females at around week 3 if you can because the females will take the sperm packs from whoever and then it could be 6 months before your getting the breedings that you were intending. I know this is long, but if you need more info I can get it for you... I have been doing this along time and there are several methods that work.
Good Luck
by the way I have
32---- 20 gallon marine tanks
2--- 20 long freshwater guppy tanks
6--- 10 gallon freshwater guppy tanks
1- 125 cichlid tank
1- 100 gallon saltwater reef tank
Good Luck
by the way I have
32---- 20 gallon marine tanks
2--- 20 long freshwater guppy tanks
6--- 10 gallon freshwater guppy tanks
1- 125 cichlid tank
1- 100 gallon saltwater reef tank
good info~~!I'm on my fourth generation guppies of my own line - Here's what I do. Maybe you can use some of this.
20 gallon tank - I did a 10 but I was way too successful and it was overstocked very quickly.
Gravel - I've had dark gravel, I've had light gravel - never seemed to matter
Plants - a few - never seemed to matter
Filter - *goes to check* Top Fin 20
Water temp - usually 78
Male to female ratio: currently 1 male to 10 females. I pick and choose my fish, and only the best looking male from the previous generation is allowed to stay and produce with the next generation. When I started, I had 3 males to 10 females.
Setup detail - I have a divider set up in the tank - leaving the right side (away from the filter - the water pouring down creates too much current for fry) available for fry and only fry. They don't need too much room. I took a regular old plastic guppy nursery from Petsmart and knocked out the bottom of it. It floats on the baby side - When a female is ready to pop, I move her from the left side to the right side. *MAKE SURE YOU PUT A LID ON THE NURSERY* This way, instead of having fry drop into the bottom of the nursery only to swim up and get eaten by their mother, they fall down into the tank and the divider keeps them safe.
Food - for the fry, BBS is best when they are very young. At about a month old I put them on powdered flake. Frozen krill about a month before they are ready to be moved to the left side (I move them when they are big enough to eat the newest fry being born)
Lastly...Keep MonsterFish in another tank to eat any guppies you'd like to cull out due to any imperfections or unwanted coloring.
Good luck
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I used to have a colony of guppies in a 30 gallon with 3 gold spiloplueras. Only had to feed the guppies, the weak would be eaten by the gold spilos. It was heavily planted though, the fry would hide in the plants, away from the mother, larger guppies or the spilos.
when i was breeding out my guppies from feeder stock into what i felt was a rather nice looking straing of fancier guppy i used 7 tanks... not something i'd recommend for everyone
