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From:Marysville, CA
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posted 02-18-2004 01:02 PM         

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Hello all! I'm excited, I think my guppy is about to have her children. She is huge, Wow! Also, I have noticed her hiding lately in the cave with my pictus cat. Is this a sign that she is close to having them or is she just being weird? Thanks!

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From:smithtown, ny, usa
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posted 02-18-2004 01:13 PM         

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sounds like shes pregnent do you have any idea of who the father is she might actually have internal parasites but i dought it

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posted 02-18-2004 02:06 PM         

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Yes, the father is my surviving red guppy I think. He always stayed very close to her and I think he murdered the yellow male I had with them. The female is purple in color so I wonder what color combos I'll get? Also do you think I unplug my filter for the first few days after they are born? I don't want them to get sucked in. Thanks!

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posted 02-18-2004 02:13 PM         

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i would move the parents or move the babies and whatever tank the babies are in get a little sponge filter there also called foam filters

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posted 02-18-2004 02:55 PM         

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I don't have a place to move them to... the only other tank I have is an African cichlids home. And although she probably would like a snack, I'd feel a little guilty. I put some live plants floating on the top of my tank and there are also 12 other live plants and two caves in the tank. Hopefully they'll be able to snack on some of the plants too. I've tried raising guppy fry several times before using seperate tanks, breeding boxes and nets and special fry foods. This time I think I'm going to go a little more naturally. I've never been able to keep any of the fry alive before so maybe this time they'll be ok because of the heavy cover and plant food. I'm keeping my fingers crossed this time. Thanks for the advice!

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posted 02-18-2004 02:58 PM         

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get a seperator and place it in the tank with the babies on one side and the other fish on another or get a breeder trap and put the babies in it

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posted 02-18-2004 03:02 PM         

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I do have a plastic breeding trap. It has a slot in it so that when the female has the kids they fall through and she can't eat them. However, the other times I have used this trap my fry have never eaten any food and have died quickly. Do you think I should try this again or get one of the sponge filters instead? If I put them in the box it would save them from my pictus cat but he zones out most of the time anyway so I doubt they are in much danger. Do you have any suggestions concerning when I should put the female in the trap. Or should I just gather the fry into it after they have been born? Thanks again!

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posted 02-19-2004 02:35 AM         

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I would gather the fry after they are born. We lost a female after putting her in a fry trap box. I guess she got real scared in the small box and died.
The plant cover idea would also work. Babies naturally start to seek hiding places right after they are born.

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posted 02-22-2004 11:16 PM         

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I have had several successful guppies deliver a LOT of babies. What I have found to work the best is I bought a 10 gallon tank that I have set up as a breeding tank. The only fish I put in there are the mommies when they are about to have babies. I then move the mommies back to the other tank so she doesn't eat the babies. When the babies are big enough I move them in the bigger tank with the rest of my fish. I also use a sponge filter for the baby tank. Make sure that the baby tank had plenty of algae to keep the babies healthy!! I used stones, water, and plants from an existing tank, not cleaning them. This gives the babies the food they need to eat when they are so little. Plus I take the regular fish food, smash it up to tiny pieces and feed that to the babies. Good luck and enjoy, we have been able to actually watch the babies being born, they just swim right out.

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posted 02-23-2004 11:20 AM         

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Thanks everybody, but unfortunately the momma fish had them last night and none of them made it as far as I can see. I checked on her at about midnight and she was still swimming happily I woke up at 6:30 to go to work and she was so slim that she must have had them in that time frame. However I cannot find any babies in the tank at all. My evil catfish probably had a nice breakfast before I woke up!

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posted 02-23-2004 11:51 AM         

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They're pretty good at hiding, especially if you have a lot of plants. I wouldn't be surprised if a couple months from now you find a couple of them.

One time I put my female yellow lab in a divided section of one of my tanks so she could have her fry there. The next day she wasn't holding any more and was eating food so I figured she had released the fry and eaten them all. So, I put her back with the adults and put my other, older fry in that section. A month later, I found one little baby yellow lab hiding in some plants.

-Chelle

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posted 02-23-2004 12:42 PM         

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My friends neons and guppies had babies and we didn't find any of the babies for almost a month. Then all the sudden we found 3 of them swimming, then a couple more hiding in the rocks, and plants!

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