Fancy Guppie Breeding!

[Daddas1Punkin]

Nice fish!
If you have a light on that tank, you could get some hornwort and let it float. It's easy to care for, no special requirements at all, just some light. If you get enough for one corner of the tank you won't have to separate the females when they give birth unless you want to, The fry will stay in the plant until they are large enough not to get eaten. I have some floating in my platy tank and got 20 babies that grew to adult, never had to move the parent fish

Thanks, the reason they stay separate is so I can pick which male mates with the females, I am thinking about more plants for the babies though. I am concerned even with the plant for Lola's babies, she is in the plastic floater and tries to eat Mini and Mel through the plastic. They are 2 weeks and 1 day old, but they cannot get eaten, but when she has the babies, I am afraid that she will be determined to eat them. I'm thinking that I'll just feed her some blood worms as an extra treat in the middle of the day, just in case she gets extra hungry.

 

[bobelot]

I have at least 3 pregnant guppies right now but I have never seen them give birth
Most of are pretty male fish are orange with markings in them but we have a few
Yellow orange
Blue black
Black orange
Yellow with beautiful markings

 

[Daddas1Punkin]

I have at least 3 pregnant guppies right now but I have never seen them give birth
Most of are pretty male fish are orange with markings in them but we have a few
Yellow orange
Blue black
Black orange
Yellow with beautiful markings

Cool! When are they due?

 

[bobelot]

I have no idea pretty soon thought looking at how big she Is probably tomorrow or the day after tomorrow

 

[Daddas1Punkin]

I have no idea pretty soon thought looking at how big she Is probably tomorrow or the day after tomorrow

did she have the babies yet?

 

[bobelot]

Wow she actually hasn't yet and she is as huge as ever...... I will tell u when she had her babies I bet she will look a bit more deflated

 

[xchairity_casex]

hate to break it to you, but your females will continue having babies from whatever males they had bred with in the pet store tanks. females can hold onto semen from a single male for up to 8 births, hence the reason guppy breeders ONLY use proven virgin females who have been seperated int oa female only tank from the age of 1 week.

if i were you, i would simply put all males and females into one big tank forr now then start with seperating the male from the female fry after they hit a week old. can be hard to spot, but feamle fry will have an obvious clear or dark gravid spot while male fry not, female fry are also rounder then male fry.
put all the female fry into there own tank from the males, otherwise they can become pregnant by 3 weeks of age being in with there brothers. which if your serious about mateing this to that youll need to do that.

your females are yellow snakeskins and your yellow male is also a yellow snake skin, if you take one of the female fry and breed it to your yellow snake skin male youll have an entire batch of yellow snake skins and withing a few generations they will be breeding true.

if you breed to the half black/red male youll end up half snake skins and half half blacks. take a female from that litter and breed back to dad youd end up with more half black/reds

 

[Daddas1Punkin]

Wow she actually hasn't yet and she is as huge as ever...... I will tell u when she had her babies I bet she will look a bit more deflated

Kay kay!

hate to break it to you, but your females will continue having babies from whatever males they had bred with in the pet store tanks. females can hold onto semen from a single male for up to 8 births, hence the reason guppy breeders ONLY use proven virgin females who have been seperated int oa female only tank from the age of 1 week.

if i were you, i would simply put all males and females into one big tank forr now then start with seperating the male from the female fry after they hit a week old. can be hard to spot, but feamle fry will have an obvious clear or dark gravid spot while male fry not, female fry are also rounder then male fry.
put all the female fry into there own tank from the males, otherwise they can become pregnant by 3 weeks of age being in with there brothers. which if your serious about mateing this to that youll need to do that.

your females are yellow snakeskins and your yellow male is also a yellow snake skin, if you take one of the female fry and breed it to your yellow snake skin male youll have an entire batch of yellow snake skins and withing a few generations they will be breeding true.

if you breed to the half black/red male youll end up half snake skins and half half blacks. take a female from that litter and breed back to dad youd end up with more half black/reds

WOW! Thanks! I did not know that! Okay, I have Mini and Mel, One of them is huge, compared to the other one. Which one do you think is the female? Cool! I love the snakeskins. Thank you soooo much for the info! I'm going to separate them as soon as I find out which is the female/male.

 

[xchairity_casex]

these are some of the fry i rpoduced, breeding guppies is ALOT of fun! especielly once you get about 5 generations into where YOUR controling who mates with who. when i started i only planned on having 2 tanks, one for adults, one for babies then i went crazy and before i knew it i had 15 tanks going for fry, for seperating specific pairs and one for male guppies one for females and tanks for mommys to give birth in!



also, no matter how large a female guppy ism youll know when shes ready to drop her fry when her body "squares off" her tummy under her head will become almost square in shape, when that happens, it will only be a day or two later and she will have her babies.

if you can, get some live plants and pack them into the breeding net/ birthing tank, mother guppies have a bad habit of eating there fry, and they can eat em FAST! most guppies give birth to about 20-45 fry at a time depending on age and size and within 30 minutes she can have them all eaten. so provide somewhere in the birthing tank for the babies to hide that she cannot get them or youll be dissapointed to find her tummy dshrunk and no fry.

sure, i got into guppy breeding a few years ago and went nuts learning all sorts of stuff and its ALOT of fun to try to create your own colorations and such! and before you know it, youll end up with 10+ tanks just for guppies!! when i started out i tossed all my guppies together in a 20 gallon and seperated moms just before they had there babies and put moms back right after they gave birth. then seperated the fry at a week old and out them with what i wanted.

heers a few i produced

 

[Daddas1Punkin]

these are some of the fry i rpoduced, breeding guppies is ALOT of fun! especielly once you get about 5 generations into where YOUR controling who mates with who. when i started i only planned on having 2 tanks, one for adults, one for babies then i went crazy and before i knew it i had 15 tanks going for fry, for seperating specific pairs and one for male guppies one for females and tanks for mommys to give birth in!



also, no matter how large a female guppy ism youll know when shes ready to drop her fry when her body "squares off" her tummy under her head will become almost square in shape, when that happens, it will only be a day or two later and she will have her babies.

if you can, get some live plants and pack them into the breeding net/ birthing tank, mother guppies have a bad habit of eating there fry, and they can eat em FAST! most guppies give birth to about 20-45 fry at a time depending on age and size and within 30 minutes she can have them all eaten. so provide somewhere in the birthing tank for the babies to hide that she cannot get them or youll be dissapointed to find her tummy dshrunk and no fry.

sure, i got into guppy breeding a few years ago and went nuts learning all sorts of stuff and its ALOT of fun to try to create your own colorations and such! and before you know it, youll end up with 10+ tanks just for guppies!! when i started out i tossed all my guppies together in a 20 gallon and seperated moms just before they had there babies and put moms back right after they gave birth. then seperated the fry at a week old and out them with what i wanted.

heers a few i produced

Beautiful! I didn't catch how to tell the gender of the babies? Thanks for the info!