Hi Everyone In Need Of Guppy Help!

[Cuppcake]

Ok so tropical flakes, not a lot of light time, java moss or long leaved and broad leaves plants, changing the water and I should have a pretty good tank??

 

[fish48]

[SIZE=medium]Guppies should be fed on good quality flake/ variety  of foods and should have some live foods in there diet . They can tolerate a wide temperature rang They do very well  at 70f – 74f[/SIZE]

 

[Cuppcake]

I have one tiny baby in my tank!!!

 

[antoniolee]

what, you mean you have only 1 tiny fry left? 

 

[LK555]

It is INCREDIBLY hard to get fry to survive to adulthood in the same tank as the parents with any great success. If you add lots of hiding places like plants, gravel, sponges and breeding mops you will have more fry surviving, but this works better in bigger tanks. You certainly have to block the intake on your filter. Have you checked inside the filter? if they aren't getting eaten by the parents they are probably being killed by the filter. You can block the intake on the filter with a sponge to prevent this from happening. you can use any kind of filter sponge found at the pet store (NOTE: this will reduce the flow of the filter and make it not work as well & you'll have to clean the sponge regularly) I've found that the best way is to remove the fry as soon as you find them, put them in a small tank of their own (making sure the filter intake is blocked) and let them grow in there until they are just big enough to not fit into the mouths of the parents. then its safe to throw them back in with the parents. otherwise good luck preventing them from becoming dinner for the parents when their tiny. I used a 2.5 gallon hex tank as my fry nursery. they only have to be in there for a month or two. I fed them any kind of tropical flake food that i would crush into a powder a few times a day. Give them TINY amounts of food. They dont eat much and because you have the filter intake blocked the tank will get dirty quick. Regular water changes are ESSENTIAL to proper growth. Its fun to have them in their own little tank for a while and watch the little grains of rice grow into little fishes.

 

[SarahR]

I have no trouble keeping tons of guppy fry alive in the parents tank with spawning mops on the bottom (bare bottom tank) and floating plants - lots of them.  Mostly hornwort as well as duckweed on the surface which helps make the fry less visible.  Fry spend a great deal of time searching for food at the surface and without floating plants they probably look a lot like tasty little bugs up there.  
I think it's imperative to keep the adults well fed and to remove any really big old females (which are generally past their prime anyway).  Those older ladies do sometimes become dedicated fry eaters.  
Feeding live foods also makes a world of difference.  Adults and fry adore newly hatched baby brine shrimp.  Fry do well with feedings of microworms, which survive long periods in water so there is none left uneaten, and fry can eat throughout the day from one feeding.  Many adults will eat them also.  Microworms head straight to the bottom however, so bare bottom tanks are needed to keep them within reach. 
 
Once the fry are old enough to sex I place them in segregated tanks to grow out.    I usually keep a nice male or two in the female fry tank so they are pre-hit when I sell them.  
 

 

[guppy2002]

I think you guys have covered it all very well for cuppcake! and by the way Sarah, that is a beautiful blue guppy in your pic

 

[SarahR]

I think you guys have covered it all very well for cuppcake! and by the way Sarah, that is a beautiful blue guppy in your pic

Thank you very much, love the boy in your avatar too.  The moscow guppy in the pic is actually a dark purple but the flash makes them appear blue.  

 

[cameronpalte]

Have you ever seen your guppy as being pregnant. I have found guppies to be very easy to breed but the fry could be getting eaten. Do you have another 10 gallon tank where you could put the mom. Then as soon as you see their are babies you could take her out. Or you could also use a breeder net inside of the tank you have.

 

[Cuppcake]

Ok so I went and got lots of plants and y'all have provided me with a lot of great advice!!! So I put a piece of pantyhose on my filter intake thing. I have 3 babies!!! I'm so excited!!!

 

[cameronpalte]

Ok so I went and got lots of plants and y'all have provided me with a lot of great advice!!! So I put a piece of pantyhose on my filter intake thing. I have 3 babies!!! I'm so excited!!!

 
Congratz - I hope they do very well and are healthy! That means your fish were probably giving birth, but they were all being eaten up by other fish.