Heavily Pregnant Guppies

[guppyboy24]

My female guppies are heavily pregnant been waiting for them to lay for a few days, is it advisable to place them gently into the breeding pen or wait let them give birth then move the babies in to stop them being eaten?

 

[helterskelter]

What other fish do u keep with them. I rear all my guppie along side the adults as traps and rearing nets are very stressful to the mum to be!

 

[mattbleasby]

I would put her in the breeder as late as possible. IE: When you see babies popping out. OR once shes very square. Thats just me though, But i dont separate my livebearer fry. They fend for themselves as my tank is HEAVILY planted. And they can hide.

 

[guppyboy24]

in the tank at the moment is just guppies, but ive had them give birth before and i was at work came home they'd all been eaten by the parents.

 

[mattbleasby]

Yeah they will get eaten if just left in an open tank, But my tank has that much dence plants. They can hide, But if you dont have that then id use a breeder.

 

[helterskelter]

If they are well feed they will not eat all the babies. i have 10 tanks of guppies that I'm breeding and I don't trap a single female. Ok the weakest of the fry are eaten yes but this leaves many other fry.

If you dont have any young already then the adults will not be use to them and may try to eat more, but once you have some and they are use to them being around then your get many more surive.

 

[This Old Spouse]

I'd get enough plants in your tank so the fry have somewhere to hide when they're born. The more you move around the mom or babies, the more you'll stress them and the bigger the chance some will die.

One "trick" I learned is that while the female is giving birth, feed her small amounts of flake food. She'll become ravenous while giving birth which is why she'll eat the babies if she can.