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The tail with the multiple different colours is mommy option 2: The male in the lower section of the pic is almost certainly the father:

I believe this female is their mother, I will get a pic of the father up shortly. There could potentially be a different mother as well and I will post her pic at the same time. Two of our other adults: Bunch of pics of my line breeding project guppies. They are still small and so their...

Really depends on how/what you feed and how your fish eat. When you do your next h20 change see how much waste comes up the tube, if after a week there are heaps of it you may need to do 50% weekly. If the tube comes pretty clean you can stick to 25% weekly. That said, 15 gallons isn't a lot and...

Good stories! :P Here's another one, sort of. :P Most of my dreams of late have been about fish lately. Last night was no exception. I had a dream that my roomate and I were keeping a fully grown oscar in a 100 gallon tank and were doing maintenance and she left its lid open. We came back just...

You are pushing the limits a bit. Just make sure to keep up the water changes every week and don't overfeed. Definetely don't add any more fish.

That is a 15 gallon tank.

Gravid spots develop regardless of a female's being pregnant. The darken, and expand when the fish is impregnated.

If you can measure the tank in inchest Nakomis, I can give you its volume.

I'll try and get some pics of my adults tonight while theyre sleepy and when the fry in question have sized up a bit and show more colour I'll post some more of them. I think I might have some decent prelim shots of them now.

We use no substrate in birthing tanks and nice natural looking stuff in the larger grow outs and adult tanks for the most part.

This may not be a desirable solution for you but if you completely bare the tank, not fish, but ornaments, gravel etc you'll be able to find all of the egg sacks and eliminate them by hand. I am trying yes I said trying to cultivate some Ramshorn snails in a 20 gallon tank now because they are...

I do what the other posters suggested. Never feed it frozen because the fish can die as a result of the temperature shock. I lost a lot of fry that way before I knew better.

Today my roomie and I sold 19 of our adult fish and as a result we decided to move around some fish. We were adding some rosy barbs to our swordtail tank and to do so we had the barbs floating in the tank in a ziploc while I re-planted/decorated the tank (to erase the male swords territory from...

www.brineshrimpdirect.com is the best place to buy if you are in the U.S. They sell good quality at low prices. If you are in Canada like me, shipping from there is very high but my roommate orders for us from somewhere else and I can give you that link if you like. San fransisco makes a great...

How do you get clear pictures when they are moving lol?

We have another male that is really starting to look nice. Great flowing fins, a dark body with these irridescent yellow colours on the finnage. Unfortunately, there are no corresponding females that have popped up yet. I think he may be the offspring of a guppy that died recently for unknown...

Not sure what sort of Guppy that is, but Id love to have him.. WOW. It'll be a while yet before I have anything to report, but Id love to know how youre project is going. I did notice that two of the fish now have gravid spots I couldnt see this morning (because they ate so much lol) It's great...

Hi all, As of yesterday, I started a new guppy breeding project. I have various different setups in my apartment, one of which is a guppy setup. There are 9 guppies in that tank, 3 males, 6 females. The 3 males are all completely different, One male is a yellow cobra, one male is a purple...

Feed them live or frozen baby brine shrimp 4x a day in small portions to see quick growth and rapid colouration. Keep up with water changes in the tank the fry are in because they need better water quality to grow. After a week or so you can start feeding some finely ground version of whatever...

1x 55 1x 33 1x 30 2x 27 4 x 20 1 x 15 2 x 10 5 x 5.5 3 x 2.5 = 20 total. My roomie and I do h20 changes 3 x a week. Monday and friday just on fry tanks, and then wednesday is the big water change on all the tanks. Probably takes 4 - 5 hrs a week total for that. I probably spend an additional 6...

Increase the agitation on the surface of your water as others have suggested and the problem will go away. If the film is allowed to cover the surface of the water oxygen will not be able to be exchanged through the water's surface and your fish will suffocate.

I normally don't like Africans at all, but in that setting they look great. I imagine that probably resembles their natural environment more closely which is why they look so good in there. Great tank and great fish.

Depends on the fish and the situation. When she looks nice and thinned out, and the gravid spot has receded a bit she's done. It should be pretty clear.

That is likely your problem (if it is a problem for you). Liquifry is a great way to feed really tiny fry who cannot consume anything else but it isnt the best thing for raising pretty fish. Most livebearer fry are large enough at birth to consume baby brine shrimp and this is what you should...

When fed well and kept in good healthy my large females can drop 25 - 40 fry and they are still only on their 3rd or 4th births. I remember when I was a kid my guppies giving birth to huge broods probably over 50, but I was only 9 or 10 at the time lol. First drops I rarely see more than 20...

What are you feeding them? My guppies usually start colouring up within a week of being born... Certain colours come in first and others later but in every batch of fry there will be a few showing colour within a week. The rest will all have some colour by 2 - 3 weeks old. I feed bbs 3 x daily...

Yah, we've had 2 or 3 females drop now and now some of them appear to be getting more plump. We've had 0 fry mortalities but we'll see how things go when they leave their home tank for the 10 gallon. I always seem to lose one or two fry that way. Should hopefully have a good colony going soon as...

If you have no interest in raising the fry, they are best as feeders. Live food is a good addition to your fish's diet. I regularly feed convict fry to all of my fish and cull all of my deformed or otherwise undesirable fry of other species by giving the cons their revenge. In Once you get over...

Feed them better food. That is likely your problem. Brine shrimp is rich in carrotine and can be purchased frozen in easy to feed cubes. Supplement their diet with some of this occaisionally and they should colour up. If changing diet doesnt work you may want to look into your city's water...

Mollies do not require salt in their water. Many species are found in exclusively freshwater environments although the majority come from brackish waters and some from coastal areas. That said, those from your lfs do not live in brackish water and if they came from hatcheries where brackish...

Personally, I used to also have a problem with messy breeding boxes and nets. I solved my problem by putting a small ramshorn snail inside the breeding box when it is in use. The little snail has worked marvelously to keep the box clean of the usual crud that accumulates on the bottom and since...

The site Reeses posted is great for any beginners, should be added to the stickies!

If they have colour then they aren't females. If they are colourless they are. If you have some colourless ones you should be seeing fry relatively soon.

Everyone's Bolivians breed except mine :( I have 6 from 2 different lfs lol.

If you were sold fry then maybe theyd be hard to tell apart, but if you have adult endlers there will be no question which are the males and which are the females. Your Endler male is pint sized, smaller than a male guppy and very easy to distinguish from a male guppy. They have differently...

:lol: Forget it dude.

I wasn't aware that fish needed entertainment :P. Mine usually seem perfectly entertained eating, pooping and breeding but maybe that's just mine :P.

You can release them as soon as they are big enough not to be eaten however if you release them as soon as they are able they will breed. If you dont want your fry to be pregnant or the growth of your fry to be stunted you will want a seperate tank to raise them in and a way to seperate the...

Pick a fish you like and take good care of it and dont worry about how well the species is supposed to perform. So long as you feed them right, and give them the conditions they require to thrive they will be happy little healthy buggers.

You would think so, but if you have gravel and some plants some will survive. They wont survive to maturity most likely because of predation and human interference like gravel cleaning but it is at least an indication that you have viable barbs :). We just moved our Rosy barbs out of a 20 gal...