Saved Some Guppies...and This Is How They Repay Me?

[Linear]

Visited a new FS that opened near me today, saw they had a main show tank and looked awesome..
 
It was dreadful.
 
Some of their guppies were obviously heavily, heavily pregnant, when i told the manager this - he denied it, and said 'h doesn't matter it's a free supper to them'.
 
So i bought them.
 
I get home, acclimatise them, all seem happy, it's now 6 hours later and i can see them saying 'i want my babies now' - they've squared up and found some quiet places, breathing slightly heavier.
 
Looks like i'm going to have a late night, can't sleep worrying about them.
 
Will post pics tomorrow!

 

[TallTree01]

If you're interested in keeping the fry alive, you're going to need to seperate them at birth from their mothers and fathers or they will be munched on.
Guppies are one of those fish that will eventually breed out of control unfortunately. All you need is one pregnant female and you'll end up with 100s in a few months.

I will enjoy watching to see you get on.
What are you going to do with fry food wise?

 

[LyraGuppi]

Just don't do much with their tank and hopefully they'll have a good healthy lot of babies.
I say, a fish store owner that didn't know how to tell a heavily pregnant guppy from a normal one shouldn't even have a lfs.

 

[sawickib]

My endlers are having trouble doing that lol only one female and fry seems to mysteriously disappear 

 its not the fire eel or anything.

 

[daizeUK]

Most female livebearers in fish shops are pregnant.  They give birth and the fry get eaten all the time.  I'm actually a tad confused about why you felt you had to rescue these ones.
 
If the fish were in a really dreadful state, I simply would never buy from a shop that sells fish in poor condition.  You're asking for diseases and sickly fish.  Then the fish shop buys more stock to replace the ones you rescued and the cycle repeats.

 

[fluttermoth]

How many female guppies do you have, OP? What size is their tank, and does it have a cycled filter?

 

[AeonMapa]

Yeah guppy fry get eaten all the time, its a reality of life In my community tank my guppies are always pregnant but I'm lucky if I see any fry. Sometimes I see 1-3 and put them in my invertebrate tank to grow out. I keep several guppy strains so its always fun guessing which parents they came from

 

[WILDER]

At least you have a heart.
Good Luck.

 

[Linear]

Most female livebearers in fish shops are pregnant.  They give birth and the fry get eaten all the time.  I'm actually a tad confused about why you felt you had to rescue these ones.
 
If the fish were in a really dreadful state, I simply would never buy from a shop that sells fish in poor condition.  You're asking for diseases and sickly fish.  Then the fish shop buys more stock to replace the ones you rescued and the cycle repeats.

They just looked super unhappy, barely any movement at all, even the males.
 
They're currently in a tank around 95 litres at my brothers, happy - these are his first livebarers so he's chuffed to have some.
 
He's got a breeding net as some of them looked like they were squaring off (i kept those who already were near time of purchase - they gave birth successfully).
 
 
Happy ending, hopefully the new fish store was just unlucky with some orders etc - hope they do well in the future too.