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Part 1. Select the fish you want to breed. If you choose two fish to breed who have the same color patterns, the fry will also have that color pattern. The same principle applies for fin shape. When there is a ratio of one to one, the male often becomes aggressive, chasing the female around the tank. These include Wild grey or olive coloring , Albino light colors or white with red eyes, Blonde light colors with black pigment, and Blue shimmering blue color.
Tail shape: The shape of guppy tails can range from a rounded back fin to a sword-like shape. There are many different shapes and sizes that guppy tails come in, but the most common are the Delta which is a large triangular shape, the Fantail which is shaped like a fan, and the Round tail which is a small, round shape.
Select the breeding tank. You should select a 10 to 20 gallon tank with a heater and a gentle filter. You want the filter to be gentle because otherwise the baby guppies which are called fry could be sucked up the filter and killed. If you think your filter is too strong, cover the opening of the filter with sheer tights. The tights will allow the water to be filtered, but will also protect the fry.
Set up the tank. Sadly, guppy parents can turn rather cannibalistic so you will need to provide the fry with hiding places for after they are born. Guppy fry tend to sink, so use low-floating plants for their cover. Some high cover is also required as healthy fry will swim upwards. A bare bottom tank is good for fry as it cleans easily and you can record how many fry are alive or how much they eat.
Java moss or spawning moss provides a nice hiding spot for guppy fry. Set the temperature to around degrees Fahrenheit 25 to Before you place the guppies in the breeding tank, purchase food with a higher nutritional value in order to promote healthy breeding. Place the guppies in the breeding tank.
At this point, all you can do is wait for your fish to breed. Place the male back in the regular tank when you notice that your female s are pregnant.
You can tell whether a female fish is pregnant or not by looking to see if there is a dark mark on her abdomen. This mark is called a gravid spot. All female fish will develop this when pregnant, but it becomes noticeably darker when the eggs have been fertilized.
Know when your fish is about to give birth. Generally, the gestation period will take 26 to 31 days. When your female guppy is ready to give birth, her stomach will be very large and her gravid spot will be a deep black or dark maroon if you are breeding albino or blond guppies.
Her stomach will also square off like a cardboard box rather than growing rounder. Be prepared for the fact that guppies give birth to live babies and not eggs. You will have to monitor your pregnant female closely so that you are there when she gives birth so that you can remove her from the tank immediately after she may eat her babies otherwise.
Some signs of a fish going into labor are: being very still and secluding herself, shivering contractions , hanging out near the heater, or a change in appetite including refusing to eat, or spitting her food out. The most important things will certainly be the quality of the water and a good filtration , as well as slightly increased temperature. Improving the tank conditions is essential for enabling the fry to grow quicker and healthier.
The guppy fry will be very greedy at the start, and you will have to feed them quite often. The fry will start eating a day or two after they are spawned, and the amounts of food will only increase as they grow. Initially, you will want to feed them more often and in smaller portions, which you will have to increase over time. As to what foods to feed them — pulverized flakes or pellets, baby shrimp and other similar foods will do.
Just make sure it is high in quality and that it is small so that the fry will be able to eat it. Another thing you must keep in mind is that you might want to keep the fry in a separate breeding tank until they grow up, as they might get eaten by other fish. That is important, especially if you want to keep the fry.
Guppies will become active breeders after around six to eight weeks into their lives, so you need to keep that in mind also. You can end up with an uncontrolled population if you are not careful. The number can vary significantly, and it can go from 2 baby guppies all the way to up to guppies in one spawning.
That number can change, depending on the time that the guppy spawns the fry. Sometimes, it can take a couple of hours for the female to release the fry — 4 to 6 hours is the most common number, but it can take all the way up to 12 hours if the number of fry is higher. Floating plants would be good. It gives the fry some place to hide.
Guppies are the rabbits of the aquarium world. As long as the fry have a place to hide, you will have lots and lots!! Jun 9, 2, 2 38 Ne, IN www. I have caves and floating plants, they seem to prefer to floating plants The fry that is. I had maybe 12 a month ago, there is at least 25 now. However, most breeders lose many of their fry to adult guppies, which are notorious for feeding on their youngs.
Hence separating an adult from the young is the fastest and easiest way to ensure you get the most out of your breeding guppies. To keep them from each other, consider breeding them in a breeder box.
A breeding box, also called a breeder box or a breeding net is essentially a small container that sits in a fish tank, and isolates a pregnant female guppy from the rest of your community. Usually, the female is put in the box when she is close to giving birth. This way, they will remain safe until the breeder can extract the adult guppy. Another easy and quick way to ensure success, in case you do not want to use a breeding box, is to breed your guppy fish in an aquarium with loads of hiding spots.
You can either use live or fake plants like guppy grass to create safe spaces. I also recommend having two or three females for each male guppy you have instead of a single pair. This way, while one of the females is pregnant, the male will breed with the other female. This will then give the pregnant guppy an easy time in the tank without the male chasing her trying to mate again. A sponge filter will develop healthy bacteria fast and easy, and small food pieces will stick on the sponge, and your fry can feed on it.
Typically, the gestation period of a guppy is anywhere from 21 to 36 days, with the average being 28 days. Moreover, female guppies can become pregnant again immediately after giving birth, which then means you can have a group of newborns every month, and more when you breed more than a single female.
Once you put your male and female guppy in a breeding tank, you can expect the female to get pregnant a day after, but may take up to three 3 days with a male that has not bred before. Most female guppies first produce young ones at between 10 to 20 weeks of age, while males can mate and breed at seven 7 weeks.
After the first breeding, your guppies can reproduce after every 30 days and continue reproducing up to around 20 months of age, which closely coincide with guppies average lifespan. A guppies age also correlates with its body size with males typically growing to between 0. Generally, the fishes attain this size at around 6 months, at which point, they are already fully developed adult and can breed.
The mating process in guppy fish is pretty straightforward, though it happens quite fast several times a day. While mating, the male guppy extends his reproductive organ called the gonopodium towards the female anal vent the female reproductive organ. For the male to mate, three modified fins swing forward together and make a temporary tube through which sperm are transferred.
Fertilization occurs when the male passes sperm packets into the oviduct of the female fish. Interestingly, the female guppy can store the sperm in its ovaries for up to six 6 months and use them at a later date. Guppies breeding behavior is characterized by a courtship period, which culminates with the male fertilizing the female.
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