mea_caroro
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I was totally freaked out yesterday when I found one of my guppies skinny and fry EVERYWHERE! She had been pregnant for an awful long time, 3 months about, and when it all came down to moving the fry to the nursery, I counted out 30! I was in total shock! In all that means I have 48 guppies, and no where to put them! I only have two 10 gallon tanks, and 24 in each tank is NOT going to cut it! It wouldn't matter if I separated males and females, because the females continue to hold sperm packets for later, and chances are, I'm having a large brood again from the same female! I asked on yahoo and I was told the older the guppy, the larger her brood. Well this is the first time I've had her bred, and she'd been pregnant for a VERY long time! Enough time for my first guppy to have 4, the other to have 6, and the first to have two more. What was really strange was how some of the fry looked more mature and developed, like larger and already showing gravid spots while the others look like any other newborn fry. So can a guppy hold of her first brood until later and get pregnant again so she can have all the older ones with the newer ones? I'm am really confused on why some of the fry look older. It's so strange. Now I have solved my question of what fish are going in the 55+ tank I'm getting for my pleco! I'm just going to keep breeding and selling thse guys to the pet store!