I have purchased a tank for breeding guppies. The tank is only 1.17 us gal. (insert critisism here). The only purpose for them is to breed and get eaten. I have a heater, filter, and everything. The water i used is from my 33 gal tank. Doing this, i thought i could outsmart nature and avoid cycling altogether. Since then, i have succesfully lost 6 of the 10 guppies, leaving me with 3 female and 1 male. The one female (dead) had babies the first night i got them (last night). The 5 fry that she had, are still alive in the 1.17 gal tank, along with the other soul survivers, excluding one big ass female. I need advice on as to why i am loosing fish. Did i not cycle properly. There is gravel in the new tank from the larger one. I also have 3 real plants in there floating on top. Did i screw up?
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Guppy Breeding How To
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David
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Basically you have 10 fish in a 1 gallon tank. It's as simple as that. Imagine 10 people being stuffed into a closet, and you'll get an idea of how they feel.
copeina
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David said:
I'd be sure to feel some of them, and maybe even breed with one or two... but I don't think I would like to live there very long.
/Kris
David
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copeina said:David said:
/Kris
I'm sorry but that was hilarious. Scary mental picture, but hilarious nonetheless.NinjaSmurf
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That is the most disgusting thing I have ever.... ah hell, even I can't keep a straight face on that one!!!!
But seriously FishGuru, I know what you mean, as I'm currently trying to breed feeders (well, actually fancy hehe). I have mine in the thirty gallon, and yet for three and a half months I have just now managed to have fry at all! And then, it's only been two at a time. I think they wait till I go away, and then drop the fry and quickly eat them!
I'd get a bigger tank, and use that little one for the babies as a grow out tank. May I ask how what kind of fish this will be used as dinner for? Cause if it's something big, (I'd get fancy guppies if it is, though feeders are cheaper most store take better care of the fancy) you'll need a bigger growout tank if they need to be full grown. Also, to conserve your food supply and as to get as many babies out of them as you can, buy only one or two males to occasionally 'serve' the females, because all the males really do is eat and poop and screw, so you don't need near as many as you do girls. Also, another trick I do is buy females that are already looking like they could drop any day, more babies faster right?
ah hell, even I can't keep a straight face on that one!!!! But seriously FishGuru, I know what you mean, as I'm currently trying to breed feeders (well, actually fancy hehe). I have mine in the thirty gallon, and yet for three and a half months I have just now managed to have fry at all! And then, it's only been two at a time. I think they wait till I go away, and then drop the fry and quickly eat them!
I'd get a bigger tank, and use that little one for the babies as a grow out tank. May I ask how what kind of fish this will be used as dinner for? Cause if it's something big, (I'd get fancy guppies if it is, though feeders are cheaper most store take better care of the fancy) you'll need a bigger growout tank if they need to be full grown. Also, to conserve your food supply and as to get as many babies out of them as you can, buy only one or two males to occasionally 'serve' the females, because all the males really do is eat and poop and screw, so you don't need near as many as you do girls. Also, another trick I do is buy females that are already looking like they could drop any day, more babies faster right?
Da_Oz
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Best method get a 20g long tank. Put in a filter, lots of fake plants, heater. Throw in 10 females and 3 males. Feed every day and set a timer for 1 month when it dings dig out fish to be eaten.
Thanks, is there any chance that the guppies would breed in such a size of a tank. I was also recommended by our LFS to cut the top off of a water jug (5 gal) and cycle it, throw gravel, filter, heater, and alot of plants in it. Then the guppies would breed like wild fire. Would this work? I think it would as I trust the LFS alot, since she knows me by name. I was just offered a job there! WOOT!
Since i am only 17 years old, am living off of a 40$/week budget from parents, money is definately an issue. I don't also think that mother would alow a larger tank, other than the 1.17 since i allready have a 33 with cichlids, oscars.
ferrikins
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to be honest I think your 33G is over stocked, going by what you said else where.
Poor oscars, all 3 at 11 inchs are gonna be a tight.
as for money I get about £60 as diserbility alowance, I don't life with my perents, my money goes on my large dog, my 4 ferrets and my 2 fish tanks, my fist fish tank cost me £94 I saved for it, my other cost £55 I saved for it. They only a 20g and a 6g. My b/f pays for food and the bills like I'm shore your perents do so shorely if I can manage a desent size breeding tank, witch I in the prosess of saving to get a bigger breeding tank, from a 6 to a 20g as I feel the 6 is to small. You can afford it, I mean what do you spend $40 a week on??
Why I being so mean,
1, ya tanks are way to small
2, I understand from another post you Want your fish to beat each other up??
and
3, you asked if your fish where retareded on another post.
Being I have a mentle illness, I find that word very very very offences, and out dated.
Poor oscars, all 3 at 11 inchs are gonna be a tight.
as for money I get about £60 as diserbility alowance, I don't life with my perents, my money goes on my large dog, my 4 ferrets and my 2 fish tanks, my fist fish tank cost me £94 I saved for it, my other cost £55 I saved for it. They only a 20g and a 6g. My b/f pays for food and the bills like I'm shore your perents do so shorely if I can manage a desent size breeding tank, witch I in the prosess of saving to get a bigger breeding tank, from a 6 to a 20g as I feel the 6 is to small. You can afford it, I mean what do you spend $40 a week on??
Why I being so mean,
1, ya tanks are way to small
2, I understand from another post you Want your fish to beat each other up??
and
3, you asked if your fish where retareded on another post.
Being I have a mentle illness, I find that word very very very offences, and out dated.
PaintballFan07
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lol.copeina said:David said:
/Kris
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Not to be snarky, but FORTY DOLLARS A WEEK?!?!?!?!?! Holy ####, I'm going on nineteen in less than a month, live with my mom (who doesn't give me money by the way unless it's really important) the only money I have is about sixteen bucks left out of twenty five that I earned from babysitting for three days last week, for a total of 24 hours. That's 1.04$ an hour. I'll be lucky to see another job like this for a good couple of months, and regular jobs are not easy to come by around here. I'm saving up to buy a dog from a rescue, fish for my tank, a truck and keeping the money in my hands instead of going to help pay the rent and bills.
And you have 3 oscars in a 30 gallon? Save up, buy a huge tank for the oscars, then use the thirty for breeding feeder, which, by the way, will not be good for the oscars if that's all you feed them, as they like more of a bug diet.
Until then get the guppies some kind of home, temporary plastic tub or someones tank until you get the oscars taken care of...
That's what I wrote till I decided, maybe I was getting wrong info about your tank FishGURU, until I looked for myself and found this....
All in a thirty gallon (excuse me, 33 gallon)
First of all, way too many F@&$ING FISH! Second, the goldfish is coldwater and even if you did have a big enough tank it still shouldn't be in with them, and third, 'why don't my fish fight each other' you asked, well maybe because they don't have enough room to move, let alone fight!!!!
Don't even bother with feeders, as I don't see how long your other fish are even going to last.
I quit. Very very few people get on my #### list, but somehow you've manage to do that.
P.S. Ferrikins, I used to have ferrets, I loved those guys!
And you have 3 oscars in a 30 gallon? Save up, buy a huge tank for the oscars, then use the thirty for breeding feeder, which, by the way, will not be good for the oscars if that's all you feed them, as they like more of a bug diet.
Until then get the guppies some kind of home, temporary plastic tub or someones tank until you get the oscars taken care of...
That's what I wrote till I decided, maybe I was getting wrong info about your tank FishGURU, until I looked for myself and found this....
All in a thirty gallon (excuse me, 33 gallon)
First of all, way too many F@&$ING FISH! Second, the goldfish is coldwater and even if you did have a big enough tank it still shouldn't be in with them, and third, 'why don't my fish fight each other' you asked, well maybe because they don't have enough room to move, let alone fight!!!!
Don't even bother with feeders, as I don't see how long your other fish are even going to last.
I quit. Very very few people get on my #### list, but somehow you've manage to do that.
P.S. Ferrikins, I used to have ferrets, I loved those guys!
pnyklr3
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Whew! I think any smurfs around ninja would have gone from blue to RED! I agree that if all of those fish are in the same 33 gallon tank, it blows that whole "1 inch of fish per gallon" right out of the water. I know that if you're exceptional at keeping fish you can budge the ratio, but that is insane! 
Edited to add: FISHGURU's post in another room was locked for trolling.
I think any smurfs around ninja would have gone from blue to RED! I agree that if all of those fish are in the same 33 gallon tank, it blows that whole "1 inch of fish per gallon" right out of the water. I know that if you're exceptional at keeping fish you can budge the ratio, but that is insane! Edited to add: FISHGURU's post in another room was locked for trolling.
Vip
Smily this!
hang on a sec, you have 3 oscars in a 33g tank?
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ALL OF THOSE FISH I QUOTED ARE IN THAT TANK!!!!!
In a matter of a week, three people have been added to my $h!t list. One because he's telling his mother how to live her life and making her feel bad by being a spoiled thirtysomething baby while threatening to kill some male friend of hers and then kill himself.
The other because she took my friends cat who I raised from birth (the cat, not my friend) to the shelter after putting my friend (her own little sister) in foster care (after her mother was put in a home to die of brain cancer), no one could take the cat because it started spraying so my friend said okay to her sister, then she found someone who would take him, tried to track him down to get him back only to find out that her sister had told them he was a STRAY and they put him to sleep. He was less than a year old, and they don't put strays to sleep, so the sister had to have told them to!
And now FishGURU, who should not have the word guru in his name at all, considering.
This is pretty bad, considering there are maybe 4 total people on my list now, and one town (but that's a different story all together).
People are not put on my list for no reason as you can see, and they never, ever get off. Consider yourself fully warned.
In a matter of a week, three people have been added to my $h!t list. One because he's telling his mother how to live her life and making her feel bad by being a spoiled thirtysomething baby while threatening to kill some male friend of hers and then kill himself.
The other because she took my friends cat who I raised from birth (the cat, not my friend) to the shelter after putting my friend (her own little sister) in foster care (after her mother was put in a home to die of brain cancer), no one could take the cat because it started spraying so my friend said okay to her sister, then she found someone who would take him, tried to track him down to get him back only to find out that her sister had told them he was a STRAY and they put him to sleep. He was less than a year old, and they don't put strays to sleep, so the sister had to have told them to!
And now FishGURU, who should not have the word guru in his name at all, considering.
This is pretty bad, considering there are maybe 4 total people on my list now, and one town (but that's a different story all together).
People are not put on my list for no reason as you can see, and they never, ever get off. Consider yourself fully warned.
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