Just thought I would share with you all that today when i got up and put our fish tank light on I saw that two of our fish had died, :( , but to my surprise I counted 9 new guppy babies :) so im very happy for the new arrivals.

they breed like wild fire :D, do you have a breeding trap that you can put them in just so they can mature abit and the other fish dont eat them? i used to have tropical fish and was forever giving babies back to the fish farm, i now have a marine tank, my male seahorse is pregnant at the moment :D,

no we have 2 tanks we have a big one in the living room with a mix of fish, the babies are in the tank in my bed room it small all that is in there is 1 female guppy a sucking louch(not sure of the spelling) and the babies

has the female stopped giving birth? if she has if i was you i'd put her back in the tank down stairs, they do have the habit of eating their young, the loach will be ok, hope you dont mind me posting this, breeding fish is the one thing i have experience in :D

Guppies you'll be shovelling them out the door soon as stephanieohara says they breed like wild fire. You can tell when the females are pregnant because they show a large "gravid spot" dark area on their under bellies. A breeding trap will save the fry being eaten by the other fish but expect to see lots more of them in future they are one of the easiest fish to breed !

Now sea horses they facinate ! :) 

I always wanted to set up a marine tank..... maybe one day.:)

I remember when we had tropical fish when i lived at home . Loved seeing all the little babies swimming about but not when the bigger fish pick them off one by one :rolleyes:

I only just brought the fish a week ago we dont have any male!! So she was all ready pregnant I dont know if i sould move her to my other tank as she is looking poorly :(

LOL !....The female guppies can store sperm so they don't need a male fish around all the time!

She will look a lot thinner because she has given birth if you have another tank I would move the fry if you don't want them to be eaten. The male guppies are far more colourful than the females and hopefully you will get some nice colours from some of the male fry. :)

Is the tank set up new or just the fish ? Tanks need to be set up for a couple of weeks before any fish are introduced, even then, it often takes several months before the tank settles down and fish loses stop :(  (Sorry if you know all this :D )

Daisy

thanx Daisy it a tank that has been set up for a long time (1 year)

How are you feeding them? When I had them I set up a Brine Shrimp hatchery. Two hatcheries, one set up a few days after the other would supply all the brine shrimp i needed for food. I used to sit beside the tank watching the guppies and as they were born catch them in a tea strainer and pop them into the spare tank. It beat watching TV!

Best wishes, John

John so did I when I was a young teenager (dad's fish) and kept putting them in the "baby cradle" with the tea strainer. Did get fed up in the end though - found boys were more interesting instead :) :) :)

Gina

the male seahorse went into labour this morining at around six ish, have put him in a seperate tank, he can have upto 350 plus babies, so i have to choose which ones are the strongest and keep them whilst getting rid of the rest :( , he can be in labour anything upto 12 hours , going to go home this afternoon and see if anythings happened :D

I would love to have seahorse's. They are absolutely fascinating and if I could only get my husband to get rid of the boring aquarium we have now (gone right off tropical fish as I have got older) I would love a marine tank.

Gina

I only have Oscars (well, AN Oscar) now. They are so intelligent, I'm sure it would be possible to lead train them. Just imagine, a retrieving Oscar! Go fishing and take him with me and he could retrieve the fish I catch!

Best wishes, John

We used to have two Oscars :D Fantastic fish ! I also had a guppy tank , a tank with Plattys and other tropical fish and another with Pirhana :D :D

I trust that Pirhana in the Thames the other day was not one of yours Mel

Noooo John ..we had to sell ours (about 12 year ago) as they creeped me out ..they would all congregate at the end of the tank nearest to where I was sitting and then they would all WATCH me :D :D :D

I had an Oscar too. He was fab. He'd recognise me and always splash me or bite my finger when I fed him.

Cool experienced fish folk, congrats on the guppy babies and hope you've got a nice local store who'll have them off you to sell on.

I have a question, in my 3ft tank, I have Platy's who bred so I lowered the water temp to stop them, started with 6 now have 11!  Thing is since I lowered the temp my Apple snails have started laying all over the top of the tank, you know that plastic thing that protects the lights and the damn things are hatching all over the place, started with 3 now upto 25 with another 5 clutches to go!  So you can imagine I've not cleaned the front of the tank for a week and it looks horrible but that's feeding the youngsters and they are interesting to watch I just don't want another 25 plus when you think they get upto 2 inches in diameter.

A few years ago now, so I can't remember well - but when we had a problem with snails, we bought some clown loach (I think) and they ate the snails - I think that it is the loach  - someone else should know :) Clown loch are fantastic fish, well worth getting a pair anyway :)

Daisy

Clown loaches are great for getting rid of snails - provided you don't want any snails at all!

I don't want to get rid of the snails well until I sell them back to stapeley I just don't want to get over run with them - they are large Apple snails the yellow variety in my case Pomacea bridgesii (effusa).

Before putting the guppy back you should give her a couple of days to recouperate...Thats what I was told when I was breeding them for a hobby....Take her away from her babies or she will be having them for lunch

SeaHorses OOoh I love them...I would love to have them some day...Whar do you do with the poorly ones that you don't think are strong enough? Our petstores don't sell them anymore here :( They were real fascinating to watch :)

i tend to just put them back in the main reef tank and let the fish eat them :( , can keep all 350 plus babies really, usual keep 20 -25 rear them and sell them back to the fishfarm, nice little money earner seen as he'll probably be pregnant again by monday :D