The betta will hunt down the small fry and your guppy population will be under control. Some fry might get along, but that is ok, because some of the adults will die off sooner or later, so the new guppies will take their place. This is not the way I would do it, but for your setup this might be the best option. Body turns to pale color also. I think this is a swim bedder problem which can be caused by ammonia poisoning. Check water parameters, and make sure ammonia and nitrite levels are at 0 ppm.
Hi Mr Fabian , i have a question. How old are the male and female guppies? At how many months can they mate with each other, if they mate at a young age, does it affect the quality of their fry? Hi Haong! The sexual maturity in guppies really depends on their growth rate. Guppies can become sexually active at months old. The quality of fry are not affected in this case, though the quantity is significantly lower.
A young and small female will only produce fry. While a months old female guppy can drop up to fry. If you want to breed guppies, I highly recommend you separate males from females at weeks old and you wait until they get at months age. At this age you can already see which males and females you want to reproduce and you choose only the best one for reproduction. I found out that guppies will grow faster if males and females are separated. Also tank size and food quality is an important factor in their growth rate.
If a 1 month female guppy is in a tank with another 1 month guppy and a 5 month guppy will she get pregnant or is there more time before I have to separate them. Guppies usually reach sexual maturity at around months. So there is still time left to separate them. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Guppies are livebearer fish; they do not lay egg, so the larval stage is missing completely. Fry Guppy Guppy Fry Guppy fry are free swimming right from the start.
Leaving the light on for hours a day for fry can also contribute a lot to their growth. At about one month, guppy fry become juvenile. Baby guppies are left by their parents, often they are even eaten by the adults. You can take care of guppy fry very easy, if you know that to do. In this article I will guide you through the process of raising your guppy fry. Guppies become sexually mature at around months.
Guppies do not lay eggs. Guppies are livebearers, which means, they give birth to live fry. The female guppy gives birth to fry at a time. They usually give birth once every 30 days, until they become Usually, the female guppy will hide, when she is ready to drop the fry. The guppy mom can be in labor for couple of hours sometimes couple of days , before fry are born.
The guppy fry starts swimming right away, and will try to find a hiding place in the aquarium. At the beginning the fry is inactive and deformed.
Few hours after birth they are already lurking around and searching for food. Often, baby guppies are getting eaten by their parents and other aquarium fish. Not everyone has separate aquariums for breeding fish. That is fine, because you can still save your fry.
Here is couple of methods that you can use to save your guppy fry:. A newborn guppy fry is around 6 mm and its mouth is very tiny too. Although they are very small in size, their appetite is huge. Their digestion cycle is about minutes.
This means, they are ready to eat every 30 minutes. It does not mean that you have to feed them so often, but to encourage their growing speed you should feed them times a day.
If you are running a guppy breeding operation and you are doing it for profit, you might want to keep this feeding schedule. However if you are keeping guppies for fun, feeding the fry once a day is enough. Guppy fry will accept any food that their adult parents will eat. When you feed them, make sure you crush up the food, so it can fit in their mouth.
Feeding live food to your fish fry is the best: baby brine shrimp, micro worms, daphnia, or vinegar eels. You can feed them flake foods, but make sure you crush it up in tiny pieces. You can also feed them special powder food that is high in protein.
I use First Bites to feed my guppy fry. Egg yolk is another great source of protein for fry. Use the yolk of a hardboiled egg and make it into a paste. Add small amounts to your fry twice a day. I was able to grow guppy fry to sellable size in just 3 months, with my secret homemade fish food recipe , that you can find in the linked guide. As long the adults are happy, the fry will also thrive.
However, if you are keeping the fry in a separate thank, there are few tricks you can apply to your aquarium to speed up the growing speed of the guppy fry:. Not Helpful 4 Helpful Until they are bigger than the other fishes' mouths.
That way they won't be eaten. Not Helpful 1 Helpful You can like use it as a mini pond with fish and at the same time it is also your tank. I have an African dwarf frog in the same tank as my fry, I used a tank separator, but I feed my frog blood worms, is it ok?
Yes, guppies can eat blood worms. If you don't have any food for your guppies yet, you can give them small pieces of the blood worms. My fry love them! Not Helpful 3 Helpful 4. It is not healthy to keep the light on for 24 hours. They only need about 10 hours of LCD light. When guppies are in the wild, they are not exposed to light 24 hours. Give them night time hours as they need to rest. Not Helpful 2 Helpful 7.
Yes, you can. However, you may have to cut them into small pieces to fit in their small mouths. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 6. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. Leaving fry to grow in a large space like a concrete tank is an excellent idea which helps in promoting fry growth.
Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. Submit a Tip All tip submissions are carefully reviewed before being published. Diseased fry should be immediately separated from the other fry. Helpful 9 Not Helpful 0. Careful when removing guppy fry from a tank if you decide not to use a breeder or separate tank. If you aren't careful with the net, you may break the baby's tailbone or damage its fins.
Helpful 7 Not Helpful 0. Do not feed fry with live worms, as they cloud water and can cause intestinal parasites. Helpful 7 Not Helpful 2. Related wikiHows How to. By the 6th week, your Guppy is now sexual active.
Once your fry have reaches weeks old, they will be large enough to be placed back into your main tank without being eaten. After 6th week to 6th month, without proper nutrition and lighting, the Guppies may develop deformities. After 6 months, the Guppy should be fully grown by now and considered as an adult. The Guppy will continue to grow but their growth rate is relatively slow in comparison to before.
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