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Guppy Babies
Hi!
Recently I've rescued 12 babies from mummy Guppy. They were well for about a week. I kept them in a cut open mineral water bottle.
Then 1.
Then I (itchy hand) changed them to a nice vase bought from a sales.
Gradually, one
Then, one
Last up to date, one
I'm now left with 8.
I had observed that they were very quiet and slowly they sink downwards. Then they'll lie at the bottom and then die.
What could be the cause? Need help as I think my other Guppy will be giving birth very soon. Thanks.
Frys are very fragile. Slight change in the water conditions (chemistry or temperature wise) stresses them and they die easily.
Best is to put the pregnant mother fish in a separate breeding tank with water from the main tank. When mother has given birth, remove and put her back to the main tank. Take care of the young in this tank. Do not overfeed. Do not change large amounts of water. Siphon out excess food or debris and replace with preferably old tank water slowly.
koah fong
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Wa! I did a total water change twice.Over a day (yesterday) few more died. I'm now left with 02 survivors... Next time round, if I manage to save the fries, I'd know how to better care for them. Thanks.
Been there, done that.
Water change daily, 30% if the tank is small, alternate days if tank is bigger. They will eat crushed flakes. But feed minimally as, with their tiny stomachs, they may already be half-full eating algae or whatever on surfaces of bogwood, gravel, glass, etc.
You don't need to change water daily, just once every two or three days, about 30% will do. If there are too much uneaten food, use an airline to siphon them out.
I rear mine in tanks filled with algae on it's sides. Babies will peck on them. Also put some plants or moss for them to hide/rest.
I keep guppies in my 2 planted 10G tanks, with hairgrass for foreground and carolina bacopa as the background foliage. approx 10 guppies in each tank, 3 males, 7 females. They gave birth recently, around 10 guppy fries - initially they would hide in the foliage and occasionally get chased by the guppies. But after a week or so, somehow, they are openly swimming around the tank bravely and yet strangely the adult guppies are not even bothering to chase them anymore.
I think it is safe to keep the fry in the same tank - just provide dense foliage or driftwood for them to hide in, feed the fish adequately with finely ground up flake food for both fish and fry, never let them go hungry, and I think they will do just fine.
And by the way, I never change the water, since last year.
Originally Posted by jacquetlc
Recently I've rescued 12 babies from mummy Guppy. They were well for about a week. I kept them in a cut open mineral water bottle.
Then 1
Then I (itchy hand) changed them to a nice vase bought from a sales.
Gradually, one
Then, one
Last up to date, one
I'm now left with 8.
I had observed that they were very quiet and slowly they sink downwards. Then they'll lie at the bottom and then die.
What could be the cause? Need help as I think my other Guppy will be giving birth very soon. Thanks.
Maybe you need to add bubble for their oxygen.
And don't change too much water like juggler said.
Depends on what strain your guppies are.
If you keep albino strain, you have to separate the fries from the adults.
what did you feed em?
Aeration is not a must (since guppies are supposed to be hardy fishes) but if there is none, the next best option would be to place them in a container with larger surface area together with abit of plants, be it some moss or a stalk of something.
Agree with the 30% water change routine and becareful not to overfeed.
you haven't done as much wrong as you think! i'd only question maybe what your source of change water was or how often you were feeding them, or if they were too hot or cold.
i've had my tank for 4 months and i've done two batches of guppy babies from a pair of yellow fancy guppies. the good thing about a normal set of guppy fry is they're pretty tough fish. i had to raise up both batches in less than optimal conditions - a 20 oz container. what i most advise is using tank water to replace their water. i did 30% water changes every 2 days and i used a turkey baster to siphon food waste off the bottom. i only used tank water from the big community tank to replace water. i fed them 3-5 times a day and that was based more on when i'd remember. i'd drop a little bit of a tank plant into the container, and a pond snail or two to help clean up the extra food. i had no extra aeration systems to contribute. with the first batch i lost 0 out of 3 fish and with the second batch i lost about 2 out of 25 fish.
the first time around, i didn't notice the babies in the community tank until there were only 3 left. i promptly fished them out, although i had no backup tank, i put them in a deep wine glass, then later transferred them to a small pitcher that held only about 20 ounces. i started off feeding them flakes as fine as i could grind, but they'd still only eat the smallest of those and i had a lot of extra food waste cleanup. if their water looked grimier than usual or i slipped up, i'd do up to 80% water changes by slowly siphoning water out with a turkey baster until they had barely enough to swim in. the only thing i was religious about was making sure they got only tank water, and once i thought the water too cold so i slid them up against an outside heat source.
the second batch was the same conditions. i happen to walk by the tank and notice my guppy mother was in labor in the community tank, so every fry she dropped i swiped out with a net. she had a staggering 25 fry, and i put them all in one 20 oz container! of course the water fouled more often due to more fish. i held off with the plant too because there were too many babies to manuever around for water changes. after they were born they all seemed to be in shock from the birth, for most of them sank straight to the bottom and mostly stayed there over the next 10 hours. i thought i'd lose a lot, but i only ended up with 2 dying within the first 48 hours, and no more did. by this time i'd found Baby Food on the local market that was powder fine ground up fish food, and i'd drop little clouds of food in 3-5 times a day. water changes were still about every 2 days. halfway through their development i found a small breeder net that would fit in my modest 10 gallon community tank, and i transferred them back into the big tank and let them live in the net for a couple weeks. it was a cold transfer - no water adjustments, just dumped them in!
seriously, unless you know you have a delicate breed of guppy, guppies are damn hard to kill and their babies can be even more so. this is my first community tank in about 10 years and when that first batch of babies came, i was shooting in the dark, so to speak.
fyi, if you're wondering what i treat my tank water with, i add 2 drops of Tetra Aqua's Contra Chlorine and 2 drops of Aqua Safe with Bio Extract per average 1 quart of tap water. Those are the names on the local japanese market, i couldn't tell you how good they are because the bottles are in japanese!
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