Guppy Pests

[omega59]

No babies yet but she does act weird. She scoots alon up and down the corner of the tank and doesn't eat and hides. She hasn't gotten any bigger though

 

[omega59]

Just an update. My platy gave birth but since i was late at finding, i was only able to find 5 fry and 1 died in the trap over night. awww needless to say the fish looked nice and plumped lol. I hope next month i will be able to catch them fry babies. Mom is doing well so are the fry. I feed them a mixture of crushed down flakes and dried brine shrimp.

 

[the biffster]

welldone hope you catch
more next time it might
if you put some floating
plant in just to give them
a sporting chance

 

[omega59]

Oh i have plants and rocks.

 

[OldMan47]

I'm going to suggest that you get some java moss or "guppy grass" as shelter for your fry. I use mostly java moss in livebearer tanks and have more fry than I can easily dispose of. I take several bags of fish to every local club auction and never have any trouble selling some of my surplus but I also never seem to run out of fry or even adults to sell. We are talking about cleaning out many of the adults in my tanks 4 or 5 times each year to supply those auctions.
This is a clump of java moss that I use in a 10 gallon guppy tank to give me an unlimited supply of young adults for my auctions.

 

[omega59]

Thank you, I will get some next time. I also got rid of the two male guppies ( was siblings) to prevent inbreeding. I got a new orange-red guppy male just one in place. So i have 1 female platy, two female guppies, and 1 male guppy. Also the lfs owner was nice enough to give me a baby black mollie it is so tiny and cute! next time he may give me more ha ha!