Lovely looking tank
Your hard work is paying dividends here with nice plant growth.
39 fry ! What do you plan to do with all these?
Sell them? Keep them? Give them away?
Think I can see more tanks coming your way
Thank you so much!
I might keep a couple, you never know! Depends how they turn out and how I'm feeling in 2-3 months time
The plan was to move away from guppies, so really they should all go to LFS, but we'll see, lol. I still haven't decided what I'm going to do with the two yellow female fry from her last batch. They'll probably go to the LFS when they're big enough, now I have a large batch to pick from.
Luckily, my LFS is happy to take my fry, even when I had some pretty plain looking ones. I checked he'd be willing to take fry before I ever bought a guppy, knowing that they've earned the name 'The Million Fish' for a reason! I didn't want to be stuck with hundreds of guppies.
No more tanks, no! LOL. I'm at my current limit in terms of time with the four I have. I'll rear these in the breeder box for a week or two, by which time I'll hopefully have been able to move the cories out of the 12 gallon QT tank, and that can be the grow out tank as planned. Or they can room together for a while, since I don't think the cories are contagious. Once they're old enough to sex, I'll keep all females in the main tank (moving the one adult male, dad of this batch, out) then all males in the QT tank.
This ain't my first guppy rodeo
When I set up my first tank, and had five breeding females popping out fry, I expected most of the fry would get eaten, but I guess the adults were eating too well with four times a day feedings, and the fry would swim right past them, unharmed. I soon realised it wasn't going to happen like that and that I'd need another tank, so bought another 15.5 gallon. I had to move the first tank so I could set up the new larger cabinet for both tanks, so caught all the fish so I could empty it. I'd guessed I might have around 40 fry in there, was hard to count, you know.
But I just kept catching more. Turned out to be 83 fry
That's when I learned I was rubbish at estimating numbers, lol. The most I've had at one time was 150 or so, from different batches. I'm glad I've reduced the number of breeding females I keep now, that was getting ridiculous, although I miss those five breeding girls who've sadly passed. Pet shop guppies don't seem to last too long, but had most of those five for a year. This will be a nice sized batch to have. Enough to be fun, not so many as to be overwhelming.
This was when they were split into male/female tanks. And the light on the left one was a rubbish old style tube, have changed that now. Now one is the oto tank, so the 12 gallon will be the male only tank.
I'm extra excited about this batch, not entirely sure why, maybe just because it's been rough lately with treating worms for a month, shrimp being poisoned by plants, lots of mini cycles to deal with as I set up new tanks to deal with all that... and this is the first batch of fry born since that all started. New fresh hope, you know. Plus I'll be rearing these in the breeder box and then the grow out tank, so more closely involved than when I just let them mature in the main tank.
Don't know how they're getting out, it's a new net and I checked it for holes, but they're getting out! I spent waaay to long netting and counting before double checking the box. Doh!!
