Suprise! Fry!

[Fish Sticks]

Just last night I found 2 fry in my tank. Either the others have been eaten or are still hiding.

I don't have another tank I can put them in though. I was going to make a breeders net out of plattic canvas, but the holes are larger than the fry. I also have a 1 gallon with an underground finter and lights, but of course it isn't cycled and doesn't have a heater (can you even get them that small?).

I've seen them try to eat some of the crushed flake food already. Are they fine eating that? Or do I need something else for them? I have some freeze-dried blood worms too


I'm not sure what to do with them right now

Any advice is appreciated

 

[chelbel]

You can leave them in your community tank it'll be a survival of the fitest though, they may grow to adult hood, they may die or they may get eatten

You can give liqui fry food, I did for the first few weeks but a few people on here said just to give very finelt crushed flake food

HTH

If you want to keep them buy a cheep breeding net (mine was £3) to keep them in till larger but thats if you can catch them

 

[Fish Sticks]

Thanks

I think I'll try and find a nice alrge net for them


Good news there are now 3 of them, one is smaller than the other two though.

I wonder what color they'll be. I have mostly neon blue tuxedos, but one orange wag and who knows what they bred with at the store

 

[Fish Sticks]

Well I got a breeders net and put the 3 fry that I could find in it They seem to be doing well so far, but my females that looked pregnant are still very large

 

[kuraiza]

My female guppy gave birth to about 15 babies over several weeks, popping out just a few at a time. I found it weird, but decided it was probably normal.

However, her gravid spot never went away. All my female guppies have had large dark gravid spots for many months now.

One is shaped like a box.

I swear they are storing their babies and not giving birth. Maybe this is a genetic mutation as the other females are all babies of the original female I mentioned at the top of this post.

I don't know, I'm just saying this because my female guppies have not conformed to the guppy breeding laws as depicted on this forum.