A Good Day For The Guppydude

[GuppyDude]

Came home today and found out that my third generation guppy momma was haveing babys! She is a year and five months old, and for the longest time i could never get her to have fry. I assumed that because she was spawning with her brothers, that purhaps the inbreeding had finally taken its toll on my strain and made pulling off this one last 4th generation impossible. With one surviveing fry from her over her entire life time, i was sure it was time to move on and add new fish to the strain. But today i came home to about two dozen of the little guys, and they are huge considering that they are new borns. Iv moved her over to teh 10g with my corys and pleco, as well as the fry. Had to box her thogh because she seemed quite intent on munching on them ... i hate restorting to the breeder box, but iv added a couple drops of stress coat to put her at ease and tossed in some munchies, so hopefully she's as content as she can be...

Ill post some pics later, have the lights off now, dont wanna stress her out.

 

[Sasha]

Congratulations GuppyDude!

Good luck with the fry.

 

[guppymommy]

Congrats! I can't wait to see pictures!

 

[Annastasia]

I'm confused as to why she is in the breeder trap in the 10g, when she could just be in the original tank...?


Oh, and congratulations.

 

[GuppyDude]

Yea i know anna, still feel bad about it, but the fry weren't hideing very well at all (as they userally do), and the mamma was quite hungry These particular fry are quite important to me and my strain, and i wanted to minimize the day 1 casualties. I only had her in the for about 2 hours, and she behaved very well considering the circumstances.

Thanks for the congrats guys, total fry count is roughly 2 dozen, and all are doing great. Their difficult to get pictures of because of their size, speed, and my crappy camera, but i promise you guys pictures at some point tonight

 

[ezrock]

I was rather surprised to read the original posting here. I have been having the exact same problem. I have just one male and one female betta left in my strain after 4 generations. I've only ever been able to save two fry over the last 3 months of expecting her to give birth every 28 days. One never grew past 1.5 centimeters, despite it being old enough to be at least twice that size. The other has a severely bent spine, but I am keeping her nonetheless.

I'm getting worried and frustrated at the same time as she does not seem like she'll ever swell up with a bunch of babies...She's just always the same size week after week after week.

Is this a known concern/problem of guppy enthusiasts? I know some of her sisters were mated to her brothers (by the people I gave them to several months ago) and they recently had a bunch of babies...but mine seems reluctant despite the fact that she, and her mate are both healthy!

Frustrating eh??? Congrats though...I'll have to hope for some similar success

-Ian

 

[Annastasia]

Yea i know anna, still feel bad about it, but the fry weren't hideing very well at all (as they userally do), and the mamma was quite hungry

But why couldn't you just leave the mother in the tank she was in, and then just move the fry?

Sorry, I don't mean to be picky, I just can't wrap my brain around this.

 

[GuppyDude]

Well, i could have done alot of things, but the breeder box crossed my mind first i guess. i was in a hurry to catch the little guys before my males got to em, get them to teh safety of another tank, and then the female started chaseing them.

The fry are doing great thogh, no casualties and they eat like pigs. Have noticed a select few being incredibly aggressive thogh, nipping at their siblings and being quite annoying to all forms of life around them. even saw one nipping the side of a cory, really tryed to get it on camera, but i seem to have misplaced it...

 

[jonny-5]

EZROCK

i do belive this is something to do with breeding 4 generations of the same fish...i read it up somewhere cant for the life of me remember where though, wonder if a few more fishy friends can verify this but anyway i read that if you breed more than 3 generations of the same family that the fry become less hardy and can be born deformed

 

[ezrock]

HI Jonny..Yes I've heard of that before too. I didn't ever really get many deformed fry, but the ones I did get were able to grow to maturity still (though I didn't use them for any further breeding purposes). So, I wasn't concerned with any inbreeding problems in terms of deformities (as I was fully expecting them).

I am concerned about the apparent lack of much fertility though. I've tried reading up on it online, but haven't had much luck finding out yet.

-Ian

 

[jonny-5]

i would try and introduce a new bloodline if your looking to breed EZROCK you may have better luck,sorry for hijacking the thread btw At the minute im not really trying to breed guppys or anything but its just happening,must be the weather or something

 

[Spader]

pics !?!??! where are they!

 

[GuppyDude]

Yea iv heard that too, but these fry are beyond hardy, i couldn't kill them if i wanted too And as far as i know there are no deformed fry, if there were they have died or been eaten.

And iv located my camera, ill take pictures right now, ill be back in like an hour

EDIT: Got some decent shots, but the photo bucket is broken again, ill upload them tonight some time.

 

[GuppyDude]

!FINALLY PHOTO TIME!

Grandma and grandpa guppy, (taken 2 years ago, they have since died)

Horny grandpa guppy, loved the ladys

Mother and father guppy with oldest first generation survivor

The forth generation male, this is wat the fry will look like as young adults

Day 1, it was hectic, their all in the corner huddled up

Day 6, a little bigger, and quite happy in thier safe environment

Mmmm... munching alge

Enjoy the pictures guys, sry for the blurry-ness, the water was less than clear and my camera sucks

 

[Spader]

nice! is it hard going down generations?