baby guppies

[highnshy]

when do the babies get colour???

 

[bigfish]

males 3 to 4 months and females at 6 months i believe but i think it depends on water conditions and diet. my females are 3.5 months old and have developed their colours in they tail, resemble bumble bee

 

[highnshy]

wow that long ... but i can sex them at 5 weeks? lol

 

[Dogsby]

Mine started at about 2 months (born march 15 at 5 am, dont ask what i was doing up at 5 am on a saturday, i have no idea LOL), they are 83 days old now and looking awesome!

Shawn

 

[Lipreader]

Here's another question relating to this topic.....do all babies get different color tails or does it depend on who was the father and mother? I have two guppies, male and female. I'm hoping to have some baby guppies myself someday soon. I was wondering how they get their color. It would be cool if most of the baby guppies have different colors.

 

[bigfish]

most of the time the females you buy are always pregnant but eventually after a few batches you should see the colours come through.

So far i have had all yellow guppies, 1 with white, orange and 5 dots in a vertical line on her tail (shes my fav) i had a male baby guppy that was a red in his tail but decided that the filter was a better place to be and died so far i have only had female guppies survive which is strange.

I wonder if anyone could explain this?

 

[PJGuppies]

Bigfish...

I have had the same problem in the past with my female baby guppies survivng (sp), and no males living, It is really weird, and right now I have 2 batches of babies one batch is 3 weeks (4) and the other batch is 2 weeks (7) Now I am having a problem, I am losing some babies I have lost 3!!! 2 of them had no signs what so ever, and one had something white on its head, I thought maybe it was ich, I am hoping I dont lose anymore I have a Guppy that should be having another batch any day now, so I am on the look out

 

[bigfish]

Could of been a fungal infection, i had a baby that had some on her tail which i treated with Metherlyne Blue (Which stains everything!!!!) but it sorted her out in 2 days. Some babies do just die out i've had batches of 13 to 21 babies and only 4-6 survive.

 

[Lipreader]

Well I read somewhere that it is common for fry to die and only about 20 - 25 % will survive. Not sure why. Good luck with your new babies.