help. on breeding guppies

[masterfishes]

ive always had trouble breeding guppies....once the female has had the babies then they usually die within a few weeks and the fry never live...if i leave them in the tank the r eaten in a few days and if/once i sepperate them they start dropping after a week or so

edit: can i feed the fry to my dwarf puffer so thati dont get too over run with guppies if im sucessesful

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Well tell us on how you have gone about breeding them and raising the fry so far and the tank conditions they were in and how you maintained the tank and everything else you can posibly think of

 

[masterfishes]

i didnt do anything special really.....ive always had males around so when i wanted to breed them id just go and get a female.....when the female looked like she was about to have babies id but her in to this 2-way breeder thing that seperates her from the babies and after she was done id realese her....a few times ive let the female have the babies in the tank and then id fish them out....once when i had over 30 fry(due to a gold molly unexpectedly have babies) i put them into a 5 gal with a filter, pump, and a few floating live plants....every few days id find a few dead ones untill they were all gone....when i kept them in a breeder they would live for a week or 2 and then start dying.....as far as the female guppies a few days after she had babies they would start shimmying and soon after stop eating....this lasted a few days to a few weeks untill they finally died

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Did you cycle the fry tank before hand and do you know about cycling tanks?

 

[Ddraig Goch]

When you have fry they need to be fed often but this in turn makes the tank very dirty so the tank needs cleaning often, if they are kept in a trap then the water doesn’t flow through very easily and quickly gets too polluted for the fry to survive.
Whether the fry survive in your main tank will depend on what other fish you have and how many hiding places there are.
From your post it sounds like you have more male guppies than female? If this is the case it could explain the death of females who have just given birth, guppies should be kept with two or three females for every one male in the tank because the males constantly harass the females, this is causing them stress and they are particularly vulnerable when they have just given birth.

 

[masterfishes]

well on the females....i did have more males....i have only males and 5 at that right now(1 tequila sunrise, 1 metalic baby blu, 1 black tux, 1 with a brownish blacvk body and red orange tail with a fork it...like a flame, and one with a white body with several spots if different colors and the tail is black with blueish purple center...all r fancy gups with normal tails except the red orange tailed one)

as for the fry....i didnt cycle the tank so that probably y....when they were in the trap i would take them out and rinse it out every few days...i guess the stree of being caught killed them......when they were in the tank i had a mass of live plants floating on top(camboa on hornwort i beilive) and my white cloud, danio, and adf would slowly pic them off if they left safty of the plants....the adf would hide in there and ambush them

RIP my zebra danio who recently died of ich a month ago and my adf u died of unknow causes...he got real skinny no matter how much i fed him and he was just dead one day

 

[masterfishes]

i have another question......quite often at my lfs they have female gupys that appear like they could have babies any sec......would it be ok to get one of these once in a while and feed the fry to my dwarf puffer as it will only eat live foods

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

i have another question......quite often at my lfs they have female gupys that appear like they could have babies any sec......would it be ok to get one of these once in a while and feed the fry to my dwarf puffer as it will only eat live foods

I wouldn't advice that, the stress of been moved and re-acclimatised and having to fit into a completely different enviroment often kills heavily pregnant females and raises their chances of having birthing complications alot- guppys are one of the easiest fish to breed and you have to figure out how to breed them normally instead of "cheating" otherwise you are never going to be a successful breeder.

 

[darkstar22]

yeah!!! i have had mine for only 2 weeks and shes totally knocked up fry coming soon!!!!