Fed the fish last night, and spotted some fry at the top of the tank! They look like guppy fry. Maybe platy, but likely guppy. Problem is, there really shouldn't be any in there, and I don't know who had them..!
I've been gradually winding down livebearer breeding for months now, wanting to move on and keep different fish, and having grown tired of the constant rounds of bagging young fish and taking them to the store. I also soon need to tear down and move the 57g tank most of them were in, so that was an incentive.
Recently, the LFS that's close to me closed down. I really really don't want to have to be selling the offspring 2-3 at a time via Gumtree or something, so that forced my hand. In the days before they closed, they agreed to take my females and young, including 100 odd fry, to sell. I bagged everything, determined that there won't be anymore fry to deal with!
Livebearers I've kept are;
Some guppy males in a different tank
Two MALE blue platies (and they're definitely male)
A pair of black mollies. The only ones I wanted to keep breeding, but low key/in a community. So that some fry will make it, but not an overwhelming amount. So surely she's the mom, right? Nope, because right now, she's in a different tank, cleaning up some suspected planaria. So she definitely can't be the source.
I also found two fry (a blur platy and a guppy) that had evaded my net, but they're still way to small even to sex them, let alone for them to breed.
I did keep three female guppies. But I kept them because they're deformed, and they've been separated from males since they were pretty young, with no signs of ever looking gravid.
One is shaped like a V. I don't think she could successfully give birth even if she tried.
Another was born with a prolapse and remains very skinny, I don't think she could successfully give birth either.
The one I worried about has swim bladder problems. She's generally fine unless she gets in high flow, or is netted, and she sleeps at an odd angle. She could possibly give birth, if she were around males, which she isn't. And she's never looked remotely gravid.
So who has been popping out fry?? GGAAHAHAHHH I thought I was done!
I've been gradually winding down livebearer breeding for months now, wanting to move on and keep different fish, and having grown tired of the constant rounds of bagging young fish and taking them to the store. I also soon need to tear down and move the 57g tank most of them were in, so that was an incentive.
Recently, the LFS that's close to me closed down. I really really don't want to have to be selling the offspring 2-3 at a time via Gumtree or something, so that forced my hand. In the days before they closed, they agreed to take my females and young, including 100 odd fry, to sell. I bagged everything, determined that there won't be anymore fry to deal with!
Livebearers I've kept are;
Some guppy males in a different tank
Two MALE blue platies (and they're definitely male)
A pair of black mollies. The only ones I wanted to keep breeding, but low key/in a community. So that some fry will make it, but not an overwhelming amount. So surely she's the mom, right? Nope, because right now, she's in a different tank, cleaning up some suspected planaria. So she definitely can't be the source.
I also found two fry (a blur platy and a guppy) that had evaded my net, but they're still way to small even to sex them, let alone for them to breed.
I did keep three female guppies. But I kept them because they're deformed, and they've been separated from males since they were pretty young, with no signs of ever looking gravid.
One is shaped like a V. I don't think she could successfully give birth even if she tried.
Another was born with a prolapse and remains very skinny, I don't think she could successfully give birth either.
The one I worried about has swim bladder problems. She's generally fine unless she gets in high flow, or is netted, and she sleeps at an odd angle. She could possibly give birth, if she were around males, which she isn't. And she's never looked remotely gravid.
So who has been popping out fry?? GGAAHAHAHHH I thought I was done!
lol. But then one day I came across some really beautiful blue grass guppies so I picked up 9 boys only. $3 a piece..ikr…like neon tetra’s price lol Very pretty. He was trying to go up in price when I came back. He was sold out by end of day and wish he had jacked the price up but no females. 
