Big Mama Gave Birth!

[OldMan47]

Guppy fry will start to be sexable before you see much of their final color. When a male guppy only has a spot or two on its tail, it will be showing a gonopodium. We are probably talking about 4 weeks to be able to sex them and 2 or more months before you can get a good idea of what they will end up looking like.

 

[TheSims3Dude]

Ok! Thank-You very much!

 

[Jdubz]

The 4 fry i just had 2 are males and have some lovely red in their tails and the 2 females are still yellow.

 

[TheSims3Dude]

Here's some pics of the fry at a week and one day old! (they were born on St. Patricks Day) hehe

What do ya think?

 

[TheSims3Dude]

They're getting even bigger everyday! Boy, baby fish sure do grow fast! lol

 

[TheSims3Dude]

Hmm, When can I let the babies out? They're about 2 weeks old and this big:

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Is that big enough or not yet?

 

[HCpetraitis]

Probably not yet. I mean if you have little gravel and the fish are all relatively the same size, then yes, but if you have big gravel, big fish and a powerful filter then I'd say leave them in the box for a little longer.

 

[TheSims3Dude]

Ya, I have big gravel and the fish are medium to big size
So I shall leave them in for another couple weeks! Thanks!

 

[nosoup4you]

As long as they don't fit into the mouths of your largest fish you should let them out. They will be getting quite cramped in their breeder.

 

[TheSims3Dude]

There's 6 of em, and they're about this big

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is that to small still?
the breeder is quite big, I got a 3 way trap one, (but I removed the 3 way part) so they have quite some room in it,

 

[Rexx0rz]

you should try and get a seperate tank for them, they need space to swim around, and grow big and strong, a breeders trap is just to small ):

i hope you'd be able to D:

 

[TheSims3Dude]

Oh No! I don't have any room in my house, it's just to small! I have a breeder net, it's about a quarter of the tank size almost, it's pretty big! I could put them in that?

 

[TheSims3Dude]

Here's some pics of them 3 weeks old:

 

[OldMan47]

With the swordtails I saw in one of your pictures, I would wait another week or so before releasing the molly fry. They look to be coming along nicely but swordtails are awesomely fast predators for the fry to deal with.

 

[HCpetraitis]

Are you sure the sqords aren't just behind the breeder and it looks like they're in it...