guupy fry
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true with most animals. Many rabbits will only have one or two babies in their first litter, while some more mature ones will have 4-6 in a litter. (Used to breed rabbits, more on that later)
we are doing a guppy ecosystem project at school and many peoples guppies had tons of babies a friend on mines had like 10-15 babies lol they are like rabbit im takin a bunch home and putting them in a 1 gallon and breeding them.
Here is my low budget guppy factory...buy a ten gallon tank at wal-mart ($10), or in my case, $2 for a clear plastic bin from Good Will. Go back to the fabric dept. and look through the scrap/remnant bin for open mesh netting that is smaller than adult guppies. I paid $.26 for enough to cover two breeder nets. Breeder nets at Wal-mart cost $3 and change (or $4). Don't use the supplied net, use the larger holed net over the frame. I am too cheap to pay $4 for the breeder and made my own frame out of some egg crate that I had. When the tank is cycled, buy pregnant guppies and place them in the breeder net. When they release the fry, the babies drop out of the breeder net into the aquarium and away from the adults. First time moms will release a few and then in a few days, they will release the whole lot. When you see babies, remove them and place them in their own tank. If they swim back into the breeder net they will be a quick snack for the adults. Do not use under gravel filters in the tanks; strong currents can suck the fry into the gravel. They can survive the trip through the gravel and up the risers, but why chance it. Instead, use a small power filter with a fine mesh netting or fabric over the inlet of the power filter. You can use the fry netting from the breeder net or in my case, the remnant bin in the fabric dept. My total cost...less than three bucks. (I already had the filter.)
