The fry have hit 3 months!!

snowyangel · Apr 1, 2004

After raising the little guys from new borns and seeing them grow, today was the day I introduced them to the big main tank with no harassing from the adult gups or fish. The ratio of males to female is almost 50:50 which also makes me very happy.
Here's some of the darlings :wub:

snowyangel · Apr 1, 2004

Please excuse the water stains and the fuzzy pics. These guys are faster then their 'rents :crazy:

Here's one of our leopard males chilling with a neon to show their size. This boy is definitely a keeper

snowyangel · Apr 1, 2004

Here's the over view. In the corner i have kinda fry survival area(moss and floating plants). Since I'm over floaded with fry, we're now letting nature takes its coarse. Surprisingly though non of the fry are getting eaten . Anyways I'm labelled the various ages of the fry except for the obvious adults

snowyangel · Apr 1, 2004

Here's one of our adult males introducing himself to the youngin's

snowyangel · Apr 1, 2004

Now for my personal favorite. This is my all white male fry. He is twins with another white fry and he still manages to confuse me how he came out this colour because his father is a half black/russian blue and his mother has a yellow/orange leopard tail :dunno:

Still, me and my b/f have decided to keep the twins. I named him Mercutio since his dad is named Mercury I thought I'd have some resemblance.
Hope you liked 'em

Sasha · Apr 1, 2004

Wow! The guppies are beautiful! :wub:

How large are the 3 month olds? I have a few gupppies around that age and they are still only half an inch and begining to show their color. They started out growing at a rapid rate, but now they aren't grwoing as much. I'm feeding them 2-3 times daily with crush flakes and bloodworms, but it's like their growth has stopped. Should they be having more space besides a 2.5 gallon tank? I'm trying to decide if I should introduce them into my main tank, but I'm still a little concerned about them in with my large black molly. -_-

snowyangel · Apr 1, 2004

Hey sasha, thanx for the compliment

. How many fry do you got in the 2.5 gallon? You may need to upgrad them to something bigger if they're 3 months old now. I kept my 3month olds in a 10 gallon before they were bumped up to the main tank and they were fed 2-3x a day with brine shrimp pellets, bloodworms and crushed flakes. Now that they're in the big tank they get another treat, tubifex worms, just because they've graduated

For size, I'd say they've reached the once inch mark(look at the fry with the glolight neon picture).

Angry_Platy · Apr 1, 2004

Your fish have been busy Laura!!

I love your guppies...all of them....especially the white one!!

Sasha · Apr 1, 2004

Should I start feeing my fry something else besides crushed flakes and bloodworms? I'm sorry I'm asking too many question, but you're like the "guppy expert." :thumbs:

I have a feeling that the 2.5 gallon fry is a little overcrowded, but I'm not sure. I've been begging my parents to allow me to have a larger tank for the fry, but they said I have enough tanks already. The tank contains:

5 balloon molly fry (4 months and 2 weeks old)
8 guppy fry (3 months old and 2 week old)
3 swordtail fry (between 4-3 weeks old)

(look at my signature under 2.5 gallon fry tank)

snowyangel · Apr 1, 2004

Oh I'm sure i'm not the only person on here that knows info on guppies

.
Your feeding your fry great foods, so you don't need to change that

. Since your fry are still relatively small, you might be ok but try to find even a 5 gallon to upgrade them eventually . With my 1month and some 2 month olds i have them in a 5g, then the 2-3 months are in the 10g(with some fry that have just moved to the bigger tank) and everything seems ok. How the filtration in the 2.5g? Don't worry about asking too many questions, it's a forum right ? :nod:

jams.alaskan · Apr 1, 2004

Very nice Laure! That white male is a keeper - nice family photo with the age labels.

ALASKA

Sasha · Apr 1, 2004

The 2.5 gallon fry tank has a bio filter, which came with the tank. I added a small heater to keep the temperature at 77 degrees or so. I'm so surprised that fry are so hardy! My bunch of fry survived high ammonia (I forgot to cycle the tank

) ), low pH and they're still alive. I'll look around for another tank, maybe a 5 gallon or something. Thank you so much for the advice!

Great pictures by the way! I love the guppies! :wub:

suemack · Apr 2, 2004

lovely guppy photos Laura........the silver white male is stunning

sue

Black_Chameleon · Apr 2, 2004

suemack said:
lovely guppy photos Laura........the silver white male is stunning

sue

There's actually 2 of them in this batch (our first batch) we call them "the twins" but we have more showing up in the younger batches aswell. B) We're certainly getting some amazing guppies, and it's gonna be hard to part with them, but whatcha gonna do with 200+ guppies eh?

snowyangel · Apr 3, 2004

Sue mack I'm very glad you liked my white boy. I've always loved the colours your fry turned out so I've always hoped on getting mine to be like yours :lol:

Guess this is the closest I've gotten, lol.
Thanks for the compliment jams, I just decided to title the ages because you could actually see them all in that shot. Turned out good i think.
Thanks for looking at my pics everyone

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