You can prepare guppy food at home , or use commercial guppy food. Where did they come from I just got the females to mate with my 4 males. So one female died and then I find these bab. If the females came from a tank where they were kept together with males, then most likely they were already pregnant. The female probably died due to high stress during or after labor. It is not uncommon for female guppies to die after giving birth.
Hope you have removed the dead guppy from the tank, so it wont cause any ammonia problems. Now, for a few days, pay closer attention to your guppies, to eliminate the possibility of any disease.
Guppy fry need filter or oxezen machine for live or something yesterday I have 3 born baby guppy fry….. Can I save them aad how I keep in other bwol but take same water which are they born so I need change watter for them.
Baby guppies do not need a filter or air stone and using the aquarium water in a bowl is a great choice. You can do small water changes in the bowl every other day to keep the water clean. Once they are big enough, you can put them back with their parents. I think that in weeks you can place them back in the main aquarium.
My female guppy gave birth today and I was wondering if I could keep the fry in a container? If so can fry survive without a filter and heater? Many thanks, Josiah. You can keep the fry in a separate container.
They can survive without a heater, however they will not grow very fast. A filter is necessary if you container is really small. If you keep them in a large container and you do weekly water changes, they might get along without any filter. You can leave the gruppy fry in the breeding tank until they get large enough so their parents will not eat them.
Guppy fry of about weeks old are large and strong enough so they will be safe. They might be stressed for a few days by the adults, but once their parents will get used to them, they will not bother anymore. Hi Guppy Expert! The 10 gallon tank I purchased the Aqueon quietflow package has been set up for about 5 months and the fish store has confirmed it has cycled and things were ready to go before I added my 1 male and two female guppies.
After having problems with the pH of my tap water and then the water from the fish store well both were about 6, which likely caused the small male to pass away , I have added buffer and monitor the pH at home. Temp is set at F, pH is now 7, ammonia 0, nitrites 0, nitrates Does this mean the fluorescent light under the hood that came with the tank? The reason why I ask, is that now after almost 3 weeks of having the fry in the mesh box in the same tank, the brown algae is exploding in my tank, and the variables that have changed is the extra light, and the extra food for the fry.
If you could comment on 1 brown algae and lighting — can I get by with room light and not so much fluorescent to decrease brown algae, 2 whether or not feeding the babies is contributing to the brown algae, 3 when to change the filter if I am changing the water every weeks, 4 how to get rid of the brown algae.
Thanks so much for your time! In normal conditions you would not want to keep the aquarium lights on for more than hours a day to avoid algae growth. If you want to grow your guppy fry faster, then you should keep the lights on for hours. In facts algae is beneficial in aquariums, because algae, just like plants remove excess nutrients from the tank. Algae might look ugly, but nothing to worry about. You can find a few different choices on Amazon. Baby brine shrimp is an excellent choice for guppy fry.
When keeping baby guppies in a separate tank, you can tweak a few things to ensure that the baby fry thrive. For example,. During the first months of your baby guppies lives, good water conditions and high quality and varied food can promote healthy growth a beautiful colors depending on the guppy types.
Feed your baby guppies every hours for the first 6 weeks. Female guppies can take a few hours to drop all her fry. Care Feed your baby guppies every hours for the first 6 weeks. So why do guppies exhibit this kind of behaviour? Read on to find out. Filial cannibalism in guppies is something that has puzzled scientists for many years. Various researches have come up with dissimilar reasons on why this species of fish eat their babies.
Some scientists have concluded that cannibalism is a spill-over response caused by various stress factors. This occurs so that the fish can enhance their self-preservation instinct. A more realistic argument is that filial cannibalism occurs when parent guppies weed out their genetically weak offspring to increase the survivability of their species.
The fry that get targeted by the parent guppy are either genetically weak offspring or those lacking the necessary survival characteristics. In other words, by weeding out offspring that will take a lot of time to mature, the parent guppy can conserve their energy for subsequent, faster-developing fry.
Another explanation is that female guppies eat their own babies as a way of replenishing their fat storage. So some scientists have concluded that guppies and other species may be practising filial cannibalism as a food or energy source when other sources are scarce. This confirms that filial cannibalism is not all about getting easy meals. But many scientists believe the most probable cause is both for the perpetuation of vitalized offspring and self-preservation.
If you want to learn how to care for guppies , please read my linked guide, where I explain everything about feeding, breeding and and raising guppies. There are various methods of preventing filial cannibalism in your tank. All of them feature one tactic- separating guppy babies from guppy adults. They include:. A breeding box is a mesh or plastic container that gets installed in your main aquarium to separate the pregnant guppy from the other adults in the tank.
The duration of labor could be from several hours to several days. But once the babies are born, they will start swimming everywhere around the tank. Initially, when they are released into the water they are inactive and deformed because they were in guppies belly for around 30 days. Slowly and gradually these fries start activating themselves.
But you will always notice them that they are hiding behind some rocks. Well, guppies fry are often eaten by their parents and other adult fishes. This is what nature has decided for them. But you can give them a long life by separating them in another tank.
As soon as you came to know that your pregnant guppy female is in labor, separate it in another tank. But where the shoe pinch is, how would you came to know that female guppy is about to give birth. Well here are some signs that might help you:.
These are the signs which more or less every female guppy exhibit. Once you see anyone these signs, immediately separate the mommy guppy fish in a separate tank.
As soon as she is done with giving birth, transfer her in her own tank so that she will not be able to eat her own fry.
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