BABY GUPPIES

[lindac]

I have 2 female guppies who were pregnant. One has given birth yesterday and I only managed to save 9 babies, the other is still pregnant and I was wondering that when she has them can I still let them into the tank with the other babies. The females are in a breeding tank and the babies in a larger one on their own.
How big are they when the babies start to eat other babies?
This is the first time I have managed to breed the guppies and everything is new to me.

Thanks for any help

Lindac

 

[Dogsby]

You shouldnt have a problem putting your babys in the same tank. At the most they will be 30 days apart, and will be close to the same size all the time. I would guess that when they are about 2-3 months old to not put any new babys in with them, as they might get eaten. my oldest are 4 months old, and look like they could chow down on some tiny fry.

Shawn

 

[PJGuppies]

I breed guppies and black mollies...In my tank I have 7 1 month babies, 11 1 week olds, and 8 3 day olds, and everyone seems to be doing very well!! When I first put the youngest in there, the older ones investigated them and sorta picked on them but nothing real major!!

I have my 25 baby Black Mollies in a seperate tank for those were WAY to big to put them in the tank with my Guppies!!

Good Luck with your babies!!

 

[impur]

Don't guppies have like 100 babies? Maybe this needs to be explained to me, cuz i don't see how you can only save 9 out of 100. Other fish in the tank? Had babies at night and parents munched on em all night? Or i guess they just have smaller broods than i thought.

Oh yah anyways, as long as the first batch isn't big enought to fit the second batch in their mouths i wouldn't worry.

 

[Ace Rimmer]

impur I think the number of baby's can vary

i'm no expert but I have read most of the recent fry threads and everyone seems to get somewhere between 5 and 30