Babies

[davellew69]

Help, I bought some guppies the other day, and one or two seem to have been pregnant, I now have little one swimming around. Do I just leave them?

 

[mattyouk]

Help, I bought some guppies the other day, and one or two seem to have been pregnant, I now have little one swimming around. Do I just leave them?

You can try and catch the babies (they normaly give birth to about 30+) but be warned they are extremely fast! If you have lots of plants in your tank it may stand some chance of surviving. You can also buy a breeder net from any fish store, they're pretty cheap and will keep the babies safe from your fish while they grow. Best option though is to get a bare 10 litre tank with a sponge filter and put the pregnant females in there just before they give birth. You'll get much better growth rates this way and have a lot more chance of increasing the number of fry you raise, alternativley put the female in the breeder net when she looks like shes ready to burst. Good luck

 

[OldMan47]

Welcome to the forum Davellew.
A single guppy fry will probably not make it very long unless you have good cover in your tank. I use java moss or najas grass in tanks where I have livebearers dropping fry. Either plant provides a nice dense mass that the adults have trouble merely swimming through. The fry move through it as if it were the open highway. This is some java moss in one of my tanks.

Najas grass forms a similarly dense hiding place but has different shaped leaves than the java moss.