How Long..?

how long does it take for a female to get pregnant with a male?
is it a better time in the summer when its warmer or does that make no difference?

thankyou

Put a sexually male and female together and you're likely to have a pregnant fish within the week. This is what livebearers do in nature. They eat and mate. Putting them in a confined tank means more encounters.

its just i have had mine together for nearly a month and still no sign of pregnancy whys this? and i definatley know that they are male and female.

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i presume by your user name you are talking about guppies?yeah!

I've had guppies go 6 months befor producing fry.

You cant make them breed and it's usualy when you dont want them to you cant stop them.
Treat with live foods once a week, and plenty of good flake foods, large water changes and good quialty water and your get them breeding soon.

yeah sorry i keep forgeting to put guppies lol
anuway thanks for the replys, is frozen brine shrimps livefood? cause thats wat i feed my guppies on and btw i have this grain food is that as good as flake food?

thanks

frozen foods are good, but the not live foods, live foods swim around and give the fish something to chase and they will in time produce fry, but give them time.....

They will breed in time.

oh right ok then thanks. how do u get live brine shrimp do you have to buy there eggs or something?

Ok Brine shrimp is the very best food out there for anyone who want to breed and rear any fish.

You can buy in shop at the adualt size which is a little large for most guppies, but adult swords and mollies would be fine with.
You can buy eggs cheep in shops but cheeper on ebay.
They hatch only in a salt soluation and take 24 hours to hatch.

I use a pop bottle filled with the salty water (i use 1 tea spoon of salt per pint)
Add a tea spoon (level) of eggs and aerate very strong for 24 hours and then turn off the air to check if the eggs are hatching.
The newly hatched brine shrimp are bright orange but still very small, so if the hatching your notice a orange look and not longer the brown look of the eggs.
Then aerate again.

Once enough have hatched to feed the fish tourn off the air, and leave for 5 mins to settle down, the eggs will now be floating anf the hatched shrimp on the bottom all massing together hopefully, you then syphone out the hatched shrimp though a coffee filter or very fine mesh net to catch them.


hatched shrimp on the bottom


Filtered shrimp ready to feed.

I hatch a lot to feed loads to my fish, but if u have fewer fish then feed less.
You can feed for 2-3 days befor the shrimp will start to die.

Where can you pick up brine shrimp eggs in bulk? I know they have kits, but those come with small amounts of eggs. Would a stocking be fine enough to filter these? Do you care if you pick up some of the egg with it?

E-bay would be the best place to get it, just make sure that it's for hatching.

As for stocking that should be ok, but the finer the beter

ok then it sounds very confusing lol

but th4 best way to get fish breeding and good sized fry.

I used to use bbs but gave up as i couldnt get the eggs no more and dont trust ebay....yet lol.
so for now my guppy fry and limia fry get grindal worms and small bloodworms.
pluss crushed flakes