Guppy Has Given Birth To 141 Fry

[lilfishie]

Congrats on the huge drop, love seeing there little fat tummies after stuffing themselves it looks so cute

keep the pics coming

 

[biokid101]

thats not bad thats alot if u think about it compared to drops of 25 like i have

 

[fish48]

thats not bad thats alot if u think about it compared to drops of 25 like i have

think about a drop of 25 fry is more easily to manage lol.

 

[fish48]

Congrats on the huge drop, love seeing there little fat tummies after stuffing themselves it looks so cute

keep the pics coming

i like watching them feeding on live foods some baby dahnia and cyclops being sivd through a net for the small fish / mosquito larvae and adult dahnia will then be feed to the largar fish.
http/s818.photobucket.com/albums/zz101/fish48_photos/?action=view&current=MVI_6044.flv

 

[biokid101]

lol my biggest is 28 but 25 lived but now i have 8 out of them cause i culled some and some died and some got eaten. i have 14 left in all.but its alright 126 is 9 times bigger than mine

 

[BettaCrazy7]

Woah! That's a lot!

 

[OldMan47]

A drop with that many survivors is indeed noteworthy. I have plenty of livebearers, it is my main focus, and I find that unless I take extraordinary precautions I can only expect about 30 fry from any typical drop and more like 20 from my goodeids. I almost never do anything except provide some cover when it comes to my livebearers, but in general I can find around 30 fry after about 2 days from a drop. That means I will never be able to record a drop that big, even if a female dropped that many in her primary tank. The predation would immediately reduce total survivor numbers to a much lower number than what she dropped. What does this mean? It means that each of us has different priorities when it comes to fry drops. My personal priority is keeping my fry within my ability to care for them. That means that I allow predation of fry with only decent cover to protect them. Other people focus on having large survival rates but then face problems with what to do with all those survivors after a few weeks or months. Each of us have our own approach that works for us. I raise mostly endangered and threatened species of goodeids and find that a positive survival rate that allows me to share my fry with other hobbyists is a perfect combination. Other people have fish that are purpose bred and demand a high price in the market place. For those fish, every survivor is a potential income producer. Those take on an economic value that my fish simply do not have. Again, each of us must find our own balance between fry survival, cost of rearing fry and space available for fry growth.