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haaris

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My pregnant guppy has gotten a squarish stomach
she's about to blow!
I arranged a thick bundle of live plants in a corner
so it will be more natural.
I have a snail in the aquarium who goes in there
can snails eat fry?
this is my first birth

p.s there also are guppies and
a swordtail in it
 
hmm your fish would eat the fry and it would be best to transfer the pregnant female to another seperate tank to give birth
 
Absolutely your fish are most definetly the eaters (In fact its also the parents and the mother). All fish eat fry because its a good free (so to speak) soruce of nutrition. So they have nothing against it. If you can I would recomend a breeding tank...or at least a divider or a breeding net. If none of these are options then your best hope would be to heavily vegitate the aqaruium so the fry have somewhere to hide. GOOD LUCK!!! ;)
 
:blink: ohhh how sweet your first birth, nothing to worry about! Youve started off on the right footby adding some plants though, and its good that you have made a positive observation about your pregnant female. Water snails are absolutely harmless!!! They only eat alge and vegetation, so they keep you tank clean of dying plants. The best way to have a healthy tank is to have a small rounded community. When i say rounded, i mean a tank which has different links in a food chain. I.e plants for fry to hide away in, and fish to get oxygen from, snails to do the clearing up, and fish to look great and provide entertainment, which is free! I dont use breeding nets, or seperate pregnant fish, its far to stressfull, and stress can result in the female aborting the pregnancy, and even dying! I keep my tank natural as possible, natural is good! treat the fish as if they were in the wild, and let them get on with living happily.
On the other hand, the swordtails, and the other guppies including the mother herself will happily eat up the babies... This is not only as someone said before, becuase it is a free source of nutrition, but more so becuase, by eliminating the young, it is also eliminating the competition in the tank that more fish will bring. Competiton for feeding, and breeding. Another small fact that id like to share with you is that, fry growing up in the tank with the adults will take a little longer to mature. This is becuase the adults produce a chemical that is excreted in their pooh which slows down growth. Again going back to the reducing the competition! hope that helps, if it does, get in touch, ive got loads more knowledge to add! lark.xx
 
Spanky said some good things.... Don't move your guppy when she's just about ready to give birth. It's a really good way to kill your female guppy. She'll live to give birth, but afterwards the stress from it all will leave her too weak to recover. I also leave my guppies alone, for the most part. I occasionally separate a female who is particularly large and beautiful if I want to specifically save some of her fry. Otherwise, I allow the females to give birth in the tank. Most of the fry get eaten (which helps keep the other guppies in the tank very strong and healthy), but there are always one, two, or several who survive from each brood. These are the strongest, healthiest fry. However, you may find that eventually more fry are being born than can be eaten, and your tank reaches stages of over population. Nature's way of dealing with that is to reduce the population. If your fry are very strong, the older adults (particularly females who've bred more than once) will start to lose the battle for space and resources, and you will lose guppies rapidly.
 
Hi haaris

You take notice of Aquanut and Spanky . That's the best bit of advise you are going to get on keeping guppies in a community tank.

Well done guys


Colin

:thumbs:
 
haaris said:
but if one of my fish dies my snail wipes the it to its bone
-_- :blink: -_- i can see what your getting at, but trust me!... snails will only eat dead decomposing protein! (Fish) they will never ever honestly take a chunk out of any living thing apart from a plant maybe! heh.
Thats why they are usefull to have in a tank because they are constantly cleaning stuff up for you ok. hope that helps.
 
spanky_pp_ said:
haaris said:
but if one of my fish dies my snail wipes the it to its bone
-_- :blink: -_- i can see what your getting at, but trust me!... snails will only eat dead decomposing protein! (Fish) they will never ever honestly take a chunk out of any living thing apart from a plant maybe! heh.
Thats why they are usefull to have in a tank because they are constantly cleaning stuff up for you ok. hope that helps.
I definitely have killer snails - in fact that's what I blame on my missing chain loach. I think he got slimed to death.

OTOH, he could be just hiding. I'll leave it to you to decide what is more likely.
 
Alien Anna said:
spanky_pp_ said:
haaris said:
but if one of my fish dies my snail wipes the it to its bone
-_- :blink: -_- i can see what your getting at, but trust me!... snails will only eat dead decomposing protein! (Fish) they will never ever honestly take a chunk out of any living thing apart from a plant maybe! heh.
Thats why they are usefull to have in a tank because they are constantly cleaning stuff up for you ok. hope that helps.
I definitely have killer snails - in fact that's what I blame on my missing chain loach. I think he got slimed to death.

OTOH, he could be just hiding. I'll leave it to you to decide what is more likely.
:sick: :fish: :fish: :fish: :sick: id really love to meet these killer snails.. what do they look like?
and what does OTOH???
 
spanky_pp_ said:
:sick: :fish: :fish: :fish: :sick: id really love to meet these killer snails.. what do they look like?
and what does OTOH???
OTOH = On the other hand.

And I lied about the snails. B)
 
infant340 said:
i have 2 floating plastic plants in my tank and anothr female guppy in there will that work for a breeding tank?
could do. If you want a breeding tank to be really successfull, dont have any gravel, its not ideal for rearing baby fry in as they swim down between it, and then get wedged down there! You should have some natural plants, and a breeding net or divider for fry to escape into. Seperate pregnant females into your breeding tank away from the other fish who are fry predators to get the best fry crop.. hope that helps.
 

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