Fancy Guppie Breeding!

[bobelot]

Congratz on the new babies! if you keep mom away from other males, she will still continue to have a litter of fry every 4 weeks for the next few months.
when you put her back in with a male donot be suprised if the male goes crazy chaseing her all over the place, once a female gives birth the males can smell it and all go crazy trying to mate with her.




are you talking adult females? many times older females will become "crooked" after having a litter, it happens when they become too old and once it happens they normally do not have another litter before they pass away.

if your talking about young guppy fry, its a common problem called "bent spine" while its not lethal in itself and guppies can reach adulthood with bent spines, oftentimes they simply die before then and if they do make it into adult hood they are normally thinner and less hardy/active and never birth any fry or are able to mate to a female.

Well that's okay of they don't give birth to baby's cuz there are already to many and I'm afraid that the tank is going to crash soon !! It's a 20 gallon.
Anyway about the V fishes should I just throw away all of the bent spine ones so one day the whole tank isn't full of V fishes but I don't have the heart to flush them down thr toilet when there still living ....

 

[bobelot]

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Lol! I like that! I'll name the fattest one Eatelot and the fastest one Swimalot! haha!

Thank you ! those are very original arnt they ?
I got them both from the name bobelot

 

[Daddas1Punkin]

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Yes they are very original!

 

[xchairity_casex]

Well that's okay of they don't give birth to baby's cuz there are already to many and I'm afraid that the tank is going to crash soon !! It's a 20 gallon.
Anyway about the V fishes should I just throw away all of the bent spine ones so one day the whole tank isn't full of V fishes but I don't have the heart to flush them down thr toilet when there still living ....

Yes, you could cull them if you wanted, i used to cull all the fry that was severly deformed or had clamped fins/tails as often times they would die at night and cause the tank to become icky and cause the other fry to become sick and die to.


if you want a human way of dispatching fish, pick yourself up some Ambesol (for toothaches) its a brown liquid, take the sickly fish and put them in a small plastic container you specifically mark like a small plastic tupperware container you donot plan to use for anything else fish related (meaning, dont use a container you use for your fish already)

put in just enough water to barely cover the fishs gills so the fish cannot swim around and put a small drop of Ambesol over the fishes gills, you dont need alot. Ambesol is a numbing agent, when it gets into the fishes gills it numbs and stuns it and hte fish dies within a few seconds.

idid this when my beloved 5 year old Oranda got Dropsy and before i could get him the proper meds his tummy swelled so much it split open and i had to put him out of his poor fishy misery, i adored that fish.

 

[bobelot]

Oh my gosh that's horrible
I Just found one of the males that are eating the babies it's tummy is huge so it's probably going to die

 

[Daddas1Punkin]

Yes, you could cull them if you wanted, i used to cull all the fry that was severly deformed or had clamped fins/tails as often times they would die at night and cause the tank to become icky and cause the other fry to become sick and die to.


if you want a human way of dispatching fish, pick yourself up some Ambesol (for toothaches) its a brown liquid, take the sickly fish and put them in a small plastic container you specifically mark like a small plastic tupperware container you donot plan to use for anything else fish related (meaning, dont use a container you use for your fish already)

put in just enough water to barely cover the fishs gills so the fish cannot swim around and put a small drop of Ambesol over the fishes gills, you dont need alot. Ambesol is a numbing agent, when it gets into the fishes gills it numbs and stuns it and hte fish dies within a few seconds.

idid this when my beloved 5 year old Oranda got Dropsy and before i could get him the proper meds his tummy swelled so much it split open and i had to put him out of his poor fishy misery, i adored that fish.

AW! That is so sad! That is a good way to kill them painlessly.

Oh my gosh that's horrible
I Just found one of the males that are eating the babies it's tummy is huge so it's probably going to die

Aw, sorry. )':

 

[Daddas1Punkin]

The guppy family have a big move coming up tomorrow, they also get another tank! One for just the Mamas and Daddies, and one for just the babies.

Praying for the second tank which hasn't had water for quite a while.

PLEASE HOLD WATER!
PLEASE HOLD WATER!
PLEASE HOLD WATER!
PLEASE HOLD WATER!
PLEASE HOLD WATER!
PLEASE HOLD WATER!
PLEASE HOLD WATER!
PLEASE HOLD WATER!
PLEASE HOLD WATER!

They sooooo need this new tank. They will also be moved into my room!

 

[Daddas1Punkin]

Well, It held water, and I moved them into my room, to discover that the noise of the pump drives my up the wall!!!!!!

Needless to say, today, they go back!

 

[bobelot]

We have a noisy pump in are tank but were so used to it and it sounds kinda nice so when we had the option of noise or no noise we picked noise

 

[xchairity_casex]

im sorry i did not see where you asked me if the babies looked healthy!
yes i would say they look healthy.

about hte beggest thing to worry about is clamped fins, pretty easy to spot youll start out with one or two babies who hold there fins clamped tight and hte tails look like straight pins, they will seem slow and not very active. this can cause alot of grief and cause most of the other babies to die if not taken care of.

non one knows for sure what its caused from, but once you find a baby with a "pin" tail or clamped fins, take them right out and do away with them and do a 100 percent water change on the babies tank.

pin tail is somthing that will happen at least once if you start having litters of fry all the time and its....annoying since it doesnt matter how clean you keep the water, what type of food you feed, how big of a spce, temp ect doesnt matter itll happen at least once, sometimes it happens where youll loose a whole batch of fry, but not very often, just pluck out the one or 2 fry who begin shows symptoms and move on careing for the healthy fry

otherwise, ive NEVER seen ick in very young fry, ick is pretty common in juvies, just after they get there colors in at about 3 months old, youll probably deal with one or two cases of ick (white spots all over the body and fins) just grab some cheap ick medicine and folow the directions.

while ick is contagieous, its a naturally occuring parasite every fish has, ick only becomes a problem when a fishes immune system goes down (mostly caused by stress) the white bumps pop up if left untreated it can kill the fish, but dont feak out about ever stressing your fish out.

alot of people always told me to do small water cher)anges or risk stressing out my fish, i however did 100 percent water changes weekly, used no filters and no gravel just an air pump, while initially i lost more young fry from the large water changes, overall i had healthier fish who tolorated higher stress levels new moves, temp changes ect one of my juvinile males jumped out of the tank onto the floor, at the time i was wearing fake nails and tried to pick him up as gently as possible off the floor and ended up tearing his entire fin off (i felt so bad!) i thought he was going to die, but he didnt, his tail grew back in shorter and not as nice looking but he lived for approx 4 years, double the life span of most guppies. (including his mother)