babies

HI folks! I decided to start a thread for my shrimp questions and pics. Question #1: If you take a peek at the pic of my blue shrimp in THIS THREAD, you can see she was berried (I hate that term...). Even though I am a female myself, I found the whole thing very creepy! ANYHOO, when I...

We could have sworn our female was prego , but since we had a bichir I figured he ate the eggs. This was about a month ago. Today on my lunch come home to show my buddy my bichir , 4 baby velvet wag swordtails and counting! I’ve been begging my wife for a second tank , guess who’s on her way to...

No matter how many times it happens, I always get excited when one of my girls has babies! No one in my real life cares much; so I wanted to share here hoping my fellow fish people will be excited with me ❤️

How many kuhli loaches should I get? I only have one currently, I was thinking 5 more? I'm pretty sure mine is a male, I dont want any babies. Should I get more males or will that cause fights? Can I get females and have no babies?

Hi all, I found a few eggs from my panda Corydoras, I’ve never seen them breed and this is the first time I have seen eggs. Should I do anything special? I have just separated them within the tank for now. I’d love to see them hatch and grow to be strong fry and eventually adult fish to join...

Hi 👋 My names Eli Cloud, I'm indigenous and in I'm college to be a Vetrinarian! I love learning and providing what information I have to others. Here's my mother tank My current set up is 15 gallon, however it's split with a divider at a 5 gal for a bully. I have two filters on either side with...

So my mystery snails hatched an egg clutch about 1-2 weeks ago and the babies are growing fairly fast (the point where their colors start to peep through) the are still pretty small but there are over 200 babies and I can’t keep them all. I will keep about 20 but I want to sell most of them but...

Hi! I have a 20 gallon tank with mollies, platys, a albino bristle nose pleco, and two nerite snails. Today I came home to both fish fry (I’m not sure if they are mollies or platys, and I am not removing them because I do not care if they survive), and at least one baby snail. I’m not surprised...

Hi, Looking for some help if possible. One of my mollies looks huge compared to the others. Do you think she's pregnant or just well fed?! We have moved her into a hatchery as we aren't sure if she's ready to drop or pop. Any advice greatly appreciated! Jamie

Hi everyone. Recently I started an all Male tropical fish tank. I began by 4 male endlers and then last week added in 2 Male yellow cobra guppies. I didn't understand why all my endlers were chasing one of my new guppies every second of the day as they're all males. But today I noticed one of...

These little guys and gals are (I think) about a month or so old - it's all we could rescue from the tank after hatching - we are ok with that because their parents and friends are rather bad tempered and now we have 3 more! Already practicing bumping each other around. Mom and Dad are about...

Hi all, I haven't been back here in a while. My dad and I decided to start anew and we have four guppies (all female) in the tank which were on sale at the lfs. Something doesn't look right with them though, most if not all appear to have bloated bellies, and apparently according to google...

I have three female guppies, two look pregnant how can I tell which one is giving birth? We found one baby guppy in the tank and wondering also about how long will be between the birth of each guppy ?? Thanks !! Lowri

Okay so I have a little female baby betta right now, she’s really cool you know she’s in a 1.5 gallon with some fake plants, a heater, no filter since it was all a bit too strong for her. But we do frequent water changes. Anyway I usually have a bunch of corys in my adult male betta tank. I have...

Hi guys, My guppies have recently had some fry and about 2 (of 12) have defects with a slight bent back. I obviously don't want these to mature and continue breeding to pass on any defect, but I can't find anything online about what the best option is to kull them off. What do people tend to do...

Babies abound!! Here are some peacock cichlid eggs we found and incubated. Here are some peacock cichlid babies that just started free-swimming: And we have a guppy that is about to BURST!

i just bought fish yesterday and when I woke up this morning there were 7 little fish swimming away from my betta (for obvious reasons) I'm not sure where these fish came from or what kind of fish they are, one day is certainly not enough time for eggs to hatch. Can anyone tell me why? Also, I...

First time poster though I've certainly been using this forum often since joining this hobby. I have a heavily planted 12 gallon Fluval Edge (set up in December 2017) with 4 Harlequin Rasbora (all that remain after loosing many and finally getting rid of the parasite causing it), 1 boraras...

Can anyone help me identify this little guy? I was thinking plakat but his tail is getting pretty long, so maybe veiltail? He’s only about 1.5 inches now and I’ve had him for over a month. Petco was selling him as a ‘Baby Boy’ but I’m not even sure of that. Any ideas or speculation would be...

hello could someone tell me if my mollie is female or male , the lady I got it off said it was felmale and was prego but nothing's happened , she has been swimming around really fast today don't know why ? , thank you , sorry about the bad pic , I have been trying to get a good pic for a while

Wow! My female gave birth to maybe 20 babies, just two seconds after I saw one pop out of its mum,my betta swam up and ate it! He's now in timeout (breeding box) until the babies have grown bigger, Ever since he's stopped continuously hunting for them, them have confidently explored the tank...

Hi, everyone! I am new to Fishforums, and new to the fish world. I am looking for all the help I can get! I was given a 10-gallon as a birthday gift, and I went to a specialty fish store here in town as soon as I got it. I was given 4- white cloud minnows and was told they would cycle my tank...

So I've had this guppy for exactly 31 days now and she has the boxed out look and today I noticed that below her u think her birth canal is starting to open up a little bit or something but it's like a little pink dot right now and I was wondering when she's going to drop her babies if it's...

I....have no clue what fish is having babies. I came home from work to ANOTHER baby aside from the one that's survived from the Molly's batch...and I don't know who this one belongs to. It's smaller than the one that's already there, and this one is almost see through.   None of my fishies...

So I got some new fish recently, in particular a balloon belly molly and lyretail molly which, as you guys know, have live babies. Today I got home and looked in the aquarium and saw some strange things at the top I thought at first were bubbles, and then quickly realized were eight baby fish...

ok so I've bred my bettas 3 times... ive moved all of the fry together into a 29 gallon grow out tank.. theres between 50-100 fry that lived... hard to tell... anyways, ive been feeding them baby brine shrimp, but it's expensive and they need a lot... I was wondering at what age, can I start...

Hello everyone, I've been preparing for my blue Fancy guppy I bought from Pet Quarters to give birth (she was pregnant when I bought her). And today while she (Fionna) was in the breeder trap, I noticed that my Orange female (yet to be named) was boxed off. I'd never seen a boxed off guppy in...

So for about 8 weeks now i have been trying to get female endlers from my LFS (i already had the males) and have finally managed to get them yesterday afternoon.  I purposefully got the ones that i noticed were pregnant because i planned on breeding them anyways.  I looked in the tank this...

Hey Everyone! I need help quick, lately I have noticed that one of my platys is growing larger in the stomach area then the other. I have attached some pictures below of the platies so you can compare them. In the tank i also have two angelfish, two red mm platies and then these guys. If she is...

Hello Everyone! i made this topic just to show everyone my 10 gallon fish tank. there is a video link at the bottom. please watch it and tell me what you think, how i can improve it, advice, tips, or just post pictures/videos of your own tank(s). my tank has guppies, mollies, and swordtails, and...

Hello Everyone! i made this topic just to show everyone my 10 gallon fish tank. there is a video link at the bottom. please watch it and tell me what you think, how i can improve it, advice, tips, or just post pictures/videos of your own tank(s). my tank has guppies, mollies, and swordtails, and...

I just looked in my Kribensis tank and have apprx 30 fry!! :) Question is, Should I remove the male or female from the tank or keep them in there? First time with Krib fry.

Do all shrimps reproduce quickly? Warning* some may think this cruel In my new tank I would like to have shrimp that reproduce quickly, I want babies for scarlet badis to eat, as they like live foods... Obviously it won't be all I feed them, I know they won't reproduce that quickly... With...

Hey guys, I believe two of my plates are pregnant. Both are female. I have 4 females and one male. And yeah I was expecting this to happen so luckily I had 50L second tank on hand. I have put them in a tank together. They aren't social with each other they both seem to keep to themselves which...

Check out this picture I just took of my guppy Lemon Drop's womb! The babies are getting so close, you can clearly see their little eyes!     Lemon Drop is about to drop!

  My first litter of guppy fry were born yesterday - a great surprise when I got home!    I had put momma in her breeder net, since she seemed squared off with a dark gravid spot. She wasn't lethargic, but I gave it about 2 days and it paid off!   She gave birth to about 10-13 babies, and I...

Hi, I'm Sam and I have a cichlid problem. Well some wouldn't see it as a problem, but a pair of our keyhole cichlids have spawned and we now have around 40 to 50 inch long babies (they're about 5 weeks old). Gorgeous though they are and very entertaining, this pushes our tank occupancy about 50...

Ok so i noticed some bright red eggs at the top of my tank out of the water, googled in and assumed they were apple snail eggs. I have had creamy white eggs before but never bright red ones. Was looking at the eggs today and noticed around it, out of the water, i noticed was loads of tiny red...

hi all im the new owner again of some more babies to my mickey mouse platty, was doing my weekly water change when the filter tipped my baby box over with my mollies in (opps) managed to collect about 5 back and rescue them, but then i noticed my platty was dropping some fry out so have managed...