Learn how to care and feed your baby guppies. See guppy fry when newborn and one week old; raised in tubs with water lilies. Guppies are of the Sunset Micariff strain.
To Kohl Wrobleski- To your questions: (1) Yes, the follow up videos at 1, 2, 3, and 4 months are all of these fry as they grew. and (2) Actually, I purposely limit my females from breeding. I allow only a few females to breed at any one time, so that I do not become overrun with fry.
Maaz Khan You need to feed them. Here are some tips I've posted in the past: ua-cam.com/video/bi_U_y7PyZE/v-deo.html Other early videos I've posted have more tips on raising guppy fry. If you have time, they may save you a lot of grief.
Kaimuki Backyard I have two pregnant guppies and I put them in a tank with my pleco fish . If my guppy gives birth , will my pleco fish accidentally eat or suck them?
tetramin is my choice food. it always makes my fish, even the minnows, double in size and have amazing color. most of my minnows are the size of a normal betta.
I agree. I use TetraMin- it's a worthy product, and at a good price, and widely available. I can't understand why I've gotten so many comments saying TetraMin is not high quality. Some people just focus on the wrong things, I guess.
i know this is old, but so cute! my guppy had 11 babies and looks like there is still more. i don't know how many spawns shes had as ive rescued them a few months ago. they are in a heated and filtered tank, i only mananged to find 11 so far
Thanks for the video. I woke up this morning turned the tank lights on and the there were baby fry everywhere the mother had given birth over night I guess. I quickly moved the adult guppies to another tank and had to move the goramies to so thay wouldn't eat them all. After that i was panicking because I didint know what to do. this video helped
I just bought a bunch of guppies as decoration for my fish tank, and as soon as I put them in, one female started trying to squeeze out babies I scooped it up and put it in the fry net
yea, i'm kinda happy about that to, no matter what species, it's always fun to have baby animals and watch them grow into adult hood looking forward to the day I can let the little guys into the main tank as full fledged adults
I have three guppies. A endler guppy yellow and a fancy female guppy grey and a tiny pink tail and a feeder guppy i got in my bag of my 4 ghost shrimp. She was the one that got me getting guppies. Before i had one guppy a year ago. The fancy female gave birth at night i woke up only finding one guppy fry. Im rasing it in a half gallon tank the only place i have for it. Its name is Lucky.Hes two days old now. He wont wanna eat fish flakes he only want peas. I dont think u can teach how to care for guppy fry in a minute but okay.
gotta use the bottle cap for food if you touch it with your fingers it goes back in the bottle adding moisture to the flakes making them rancid also anything on your fingers will be spread and it can mess with the gas exchange by adding a film ontop of the water
+gravedigr12 I have very dry hands, so very little moisture gets onto the food. Nevertheless, you bring up a very good point. What's unsaid in my video is that I keep the old canisters so that whenever I purchase a new canister, I apportion about a month's supply out, and feed the fish from that apportioned canister. I also keep the new portion closed and in a cool dry place in the house. Also, if it's raining heavily, and the air is rather humid, I don't open the container. And if my hands are wet, I either return later, when my hands are dry before pinching food out of the container. I've been to friend's houses and watch them feed their fish. From this, I know that there is very little regard for keeping fish food as fresh as possible. For me raising guppies, using the bottle cap will simply not work, I need to crush the flakes fine for feeding fry, and even adults. I actually talk about this in another video of mine specifically on feeding guppies. Great comment!
fair enough thanks for the very informative and friendly reply. by the way I am impressed with your guppy breeding setup its awesome how many you have got going at a time and that you are doing it in a way that is the exact same as there native homeland. I think when people breed fish like you are they have a much stronger immune system and live longer to.
I don't use filters. The reason I can get away without filters is that I do not stock too many fish per tub. I limit number of fish to approximately 1 guppy per gallon of tub size. And I do frequent partial to full water changes. I have a past video on cleaning tubs.
I keep my guppy fry in small container, they love it! I am raising 5 right now, but you have so many!!!! How do you have that happen? And do you have any tips to breeding guppies faster? Thanks!
As the females get older and larger, they give birth to more fry. But it's better to raise a few well, then many not so well. I don't have any tips for breeding them faster. I purposely try to slow it down, and breed only a few females at a time. All my tips are in my earliest videos on this channel.
+sirarcticwolf ajvids (sirarcticwolf93995) My opinion: you should really check on this. It's a matter of semantics. Guppies can survive in water in the high 60 ºF for while. But it is not ideal, and the guppies will not do well.
Hi what water do you reccomend to raise them in? Tap water? Purified? Distilled? It's my first time having a baby fish that actually lives longer than a day, and I'm excited to watch it grow.
I can never seem to get all the baby guppies in time :( my largest "batch" of fry is still standing strong at 14. My smallest was one! I feel so terrible! I feel like there were more that gotten eaten. :(( i know sometimes it can just be that they have small "batches" of fry too... but how can I make sure that I am collecting as many as I can? I have plenty of plants and hiding spots!
@@kaimukibackyard148 I crushed flakes into powder and tried egg yolk mixed with water too. They're so small I couldn't tell if they ate any or even if they looked fatter. My brine shrimp hatchery fell over last nite so it's flake food again for 24 hours. Thank you for your help.
+Rel Joshua Tutor Bummer. At least you have some guppies left. All you need is few. Because they give birth to so many fry, it's very easy to rebound your numbers.
+Matthew Guest I do not run filters for any tubs, I do now own a single filter or air pump. I do partial water changes, say 15 to 20 %. It really depends on how many fish are in each tub.
Your question is very common. My thoughts as to reasons are really simple. Other fish are eating the fry before you ever get to see them, or your females are really small (body plus tail fin combined length 1-1/4 inches long or shorter.
air pump connected to a box filter? or just an airstone? you may as well run a box filter, or at least a sponge filter, if you're already running an air pump.
one of my guppies just gave birth yesterday. Unfortunately, we didn't get a separate tank for the fry, so most got eaten by my gouramis :( only two are still alive but they hide in the plants, so i think they will be ok.
Do you ever have problems with guppy fry coming to a pin tail and dying? Also, have you had problems with adult guppies becoming emancipated due to mycrobacterium marinum aka "fish tuberlosis" ?
I haven't had experience with either of those ailments. Other than the gouramis (shown in a couple of recent videos), I haven't purchased any fish from a pet store since 2009. Therefore, there were no fish disease that came into my population. Even the gouramis, I quarantined them for a week. In one of my sales videos, I show how I sterilize the bucket used to bring the my fish to the pet store. I do this because the pet stores will sometimes dip their net into my bucket. I do what I can to minimize a fish pathogen from infecting my population. So far, so good.
Hello! My guppy gave birth about 3 months about and I decided to keep 2 fry, and I sold the rest to a local store. Currently, they're kept in my 20g tank in a breeder net to keep them away from the adult fish, I'm afraid that my black skirt tetras will try to eat them. My problem is that they're not growing fast at all, even though it's been about 3 months. Do you know if the small breeder net (~.5g) is hindering their growth at all?
Adults emit hormones that inhibit the growth of fry. I raise my fry in their own tubs. They grow way faster in their own tubs. I don't even mix broods, because even fry slightly older will make younger fry not grow. Once juveniles are about 2 months, then they can be kept with slightly older juveniles without slowing their growth.
If you have say 30 to 40 fry, you could get by with a 10 gallon tank... this way the fry can find the food easily. BUT... do partial water changes at least twice a week, about 20% to 30% changes. It really does make a ton of difference on their growth. Within a month, you'll need to move them to a larger tank, say 20 gallons. Continue with the water changes.
***** These tubs have much larger surface areas than glass-sided aquariums of similar gallon volume. Therefore, it's enough so accomplish the oxygen absorption and carbon dioxide excessing that is needed, for the amount of fish I have in each of the tubs. The water does get quite warm in the Sun, especially now with Summer approaching when the air temperature is already warm. The surface of the water is around mid-80's °F, but if I put my hand down deeper into the water, the water near the bottom is noticeably cooler, and the fish will hang out there. My tubs receive about 4 to 5 hours of direct sunlight, outside of this 4 to 5 hours, the tubs are shaded by my house, and some trees. In the Summer, I wouldn't position the tubs in locations where they'd receive more sunlight than this.
how long can u keep the guppies in tubs untill they eventually need filter ? i been watching ur videos and since then i been putting my newborns un tubs... but jst need to know how long i can keep them without a filter or any airation??? KAIMUKI backyard
If you avoid overcrowding your fish, and don't allow your fish to multiply uncontrollably, you can keep them in tubs without a filter indefinitely. Allow one gallon for every adult guppy.
Thanks for the info !!! You are a legend to me!!! my name is Anil from england from now i will be following your methods :) i ill definetly keep in contact with you mate, using my wife's account atm so when i open mine, i will keep in contact... thanks for the info and the videos, keep up the good work bro
Kaimuki Backyard Is a 1.5 gallon ok for while they are growing (Only thing I could afford) and then its into my 10 gallon tank, all I need is for them to grow to be big enough to mate with adult males. ( I have 5 adult males and no females) what size would that be. Also how fast would they grow in the 1.5 gallon tank, it has shelter for them. _lh3.googleusercontent.com/DlozZqKv68SoIZ2rsp12HD4F0DFGg6WsH5M5fFAhdtLPkMFAvmqtY_cXFK6FEY6phZ8Qfg3Fsg_
1.5 gallon will not house fry for very long, and unless you change water nearly every day, the fry will grow slowly. I personally wouldn't attempt to raise fry in a tank or other container that small. Here's another approach you might consider: Find a another home for your 5 adult males, and use your 10 gallon tank for the fry you have. I cyclically do this. I sell off all my adult guppies and keep only the fry. At the moment, I personally have 12 adult guppies. I'm waiting for fry to be born, then I'll be getting rid of all adults, so that I can devote all my tub space to growing fry. I am working on a new video on this to be finished in a couple weeks. Also, I have a past video where I got rid of all adult guppies: ua-cam.com/video/vHr3tDVOg7I/v-deo.html
Kaimuki Backyard I cant afford another tank as well, because this is for my science experiment where I breed male guppies and female endlers but I could only buy them (Endlers) at 30 days old. And I went over my budget already so maybe could I get a male endler and a female guppy and if my endler fry arent grown uet could I put those fry in the same tank? Or would that be overcrowded?
I have a high fry mortality rate due to dragon fly larvae in my grow out pond :( should i add in a a grown up guppy the with the fry? I tried putting a net but somehow their is still some dragonfly larvae that get in
Adult guppies cannot eat the dragonfly larvae after the larvae grow large. You need to break the system down, OR just wait it out. The larvae will morph into adults and fly away.
I've been wondering when my guppy had her fry, it appears they are about a week. We saw them 6 days ago, we weren't sure if it was the day they were born or not. Thanks!
Hard to advise you given the limited information. But one clue would be if you seen one of your female guppies become slimmer. You'll need to have noticed this during the first day or two though, because females guppies have a way of becoming plump again, within one or two days after giving birth.
alex chuck Yes, once the fry are about a month old, I will be using the steps in this video: ua-cam.com/video/D-MwNzGMjU0/v-deo.html to siphon debris from these two nursery tubs, say every week or so. I do not run any filters on these tubs. I don't siphon at this stage because since the fry are small, I may accidentally suck them up in the siphon. Because the fry are small, and they are in relatively large tubs, the water easily stays at a very good quality for at least the first month. Your question is a VERY good one, and I was hoping someone would ask it. I wanted to address this in a comment (exactly like this), rather than make the video any longer.
+TruckzAreBeazt Yes, if you don't overload the tubs with fish. For guppies, this works out to about a fish per gallon. Stock tubs with even less guppies if you want your fish to grow faster and bigger.
hey.so my guppy gave birth to 6 fry about 10 days ago and now she looks so fat and almost squared shape so is that possibile that she is pregnant again and might give birth soon?
Oh and one more thing. Do you sell water Lilly's? I see that you have a lot of baby ones! I'm trying to breed Guppies as well and I would love to have some water Lilly's in my tub! :) I probably live far away from you so i think it's going to be done by shipping.
alex chuck I sell them infrequently, and only in my local area. I've never shipped plants because agricultural rules here make it quite an involved process. You are much better off purchasing water lilies from any on of numerous sources that regularly ship water lilies. And because water lilies are climate specific, these companies websites' advise you to which types will thrive in your temperature zone. Good luck.
+Jax Vue Also, in the comments section under this other video: ua-cam.com/video/dlJQ8Ral_I8/v-deo.html, there is great back and forth dialog with Adrian Tam. In this dialog, I describe the how I clean my tubs. Good Luck.
Dear kaimuki, Please tell me how to avoid guppy fry having a spine problem...coz at store, the guppy fry that they keep does not have spine problem( I guess )... So tell me how to avoid guppy fry from having a spine problem... P.S. I was wondering how all of your guppy fry have normal body shape
Emelda Hanim I believe most spine problems are the result of inherited genes-- a trip to any pet store reveals many guppies with crooked spines. I would definitely avoid purchasing these if your intent is keep and raise their fry. My original Sunset Micariff guppies, back in 2009, had straight spines when viewed from the top, and nicely tapered shape when viewed from the side. With every generation, I carefully select which ones to breed.
Emelda Hanim You'll need to scrutinize the fish you purchase. When selecting fish in the pet store, look at them from the sides, and also from the top. Avoid guppies with any sign of crookedness in their spine. The females will probably come already pregnant, so with first few births, examine the fry carefully. If any show signs of spine crookedness, keep them separate and do not use for breeding.
i raised mine in a plastic lunch box xD their beatiful now
Lol
U should post a video on them now xD
If their still alive
Can u post it on UA-cam? I wanna see
Waan yeah
You posted this comment a year ago but if you do see this what type of food do you feed the fry?
The water lilies are beautiful :)
+Annie Blank Thanks!
To Kohl Wrobleski- To your questions: (1) Yes, the follow up videos at 1, 2, 3, and 4 months are all of these fry as they grew. and (2) Actually, I purposely limit my females from breeding. I allow only a few females to breed at any one time, so that I do not become overrun with fry.
what do I feed them?or should I feed them?
Maaz Khan You need to feed them. Here are some tips I've posted in the past: ua-cam.com/video/bi_U_y7PyZE/v-deo.html Other early videos I've posted have more tips on raising guppy fry. If you have time, they may save you a lot of grief.
+Kaimuki Backyard can u send me some please
Paul Slowley Sorry, I don't ship. I don't want to stock shipping materials, and have this hobby be too complicated.
Kaimuki Backyard I have two pregnant guppies and I put them in a tank with my pleco fish . If my guppy gives birth , will my pleco fish accidentally eat or suck them?
So many pretty guppies and Fry's!!
Thanks!
Thanks for this info! My guppies has babies and there were like 50 fri! This was my first experience and I was freaking out! Lol
:-)
tetramin is my choice food. it always makes my fish, even the minnows, double in size and have amazing color. most of my minnows are the size of a normal betta.
I agree. I use TetraMin- it's a worthy product, and at a good price, and widely available. I can't understand why I've gotten so many comments saying TetraMin is not high quality. Some people just focus on the wrong things, I guess.
Your so cool. I can't raise my fry before but now thanks to you I can now make sure that they will surviveMore videos to come😀
cool, good to hear!
i like your video! direct to the point! no drama!
Okay, I'll keep them short and to the point.
Kaimuki, you are like a guppy God. I am learnt so much from you
coachcollin Thank you for your kind compliment. I'm glad you find my videos helpful.
Great video! Guppy fry are so cute!
I love raising guppies💜especially fry
Cool
i know this is old, but so cute! my guppy had 11 babies and looks like there is still more. i don't know how many spawns shes had as ive rescued them a few months ago. they are in a heated and filtered tank, i only mananged to find 11 so far
Hopefully you've improved your rate of fry recovery since you sent this comment 6 months ago.
Dam I wish I live in a tropical country it's more easies to raises guppies
Yeah, guppies are easy here. Lots of road traffic here though. LOL
Thanks for the video. I woke up this morning turned the tank lights on and the there were baby fry everywhere the mother had given birth over night I guess. I quickly moved the adult guppies to another tank and had to move the goramies to so thay wouldn't eat them all. After that i was panicking because I didint know what to do. this video helped
Thanks much!
I just bought a bunch of guppies as decoration for my fish tank, and as soon as I put them in, one female started trying to squeeze out babies
I scooped it up and put it in the fry net
Cool
yea, i'm kinda happy about that to, no matter what species, it's always fun to have baby animals and watch them grow into adult hood
looking forward to the day I can let the little guys into the main tank as full fledged adults
I was like I don’t want pregnant guppies well my sister wanted this guppie when I got home I found out one was pregnant
I have three guppies. A endler guppy yellow and a fancy female guppy grey and a tiny pink tail and a feeder guppy i got in my bag of my 4 ghost shrimp. She was the one that got me getting guppies. Before i had one guppy a year ago. The fancy female gave birth at night i woke up only finding one guppy fry. Im rasing it in a half gallon tank the only place i have for it. Its name is Lucky.Hes two days old now. He wont wanna eat fish flakes he only want peas. I dont think u can teach how to care for guppy fry in a minute but okay.
interesting
One of my females just gave birth to 20 something dry!
cool
Mine just gave birth last night ...and oh my we have about 100..but im keeping them inside as i dont have enough water lillies to protect them
ok
gotta use the bottle cap for food if you touch it with your fingers it goes back in the bottle adding moisture to the flakes making them rancid also anything on your fingers will be spread and it can mess with the gas exchange by adding a film ontop of the water
+gravedigr12 I have very dry hands, so very little moisture gets onto the food. Nevertheless, you bring up a very good point. What's unsaid in my video is that I keep the old canisters so that whenever I purchase a new canister, I apportion about a month's supply out, and feed the fish from that apportioned canister. I also keep the new portion closed and in a cool dry place in the house. Also, if it's raining heavily, and the air is rather humid, I don't open the container. And if my hands are wet, I either return later, when my hands are dry before pinching food out of the container. I've been to friend's houses and watch them feed their fish. From this, I know that there is very little regard for keeping fish food as fresh as possible. For me raising guppies, using the bottle cap will simply not work, I need to crush the flakes fine for feeding fry, and even adults. I actually talk about this in another video of mine specifically on feeding guppies. Great comment!
fair enough thanks for the very informative and friendly reply. by the way I am impressed with your guppy breeding setup its awesome how many you have got going at a time and that you are doing it in a way that is the exact same as there native homeland. I think when people breed fish like you are they have a much stronger immune system and live longer to.
Thanks for information
You're very welcome
Hi! Great ideas . Good video. Question :Do the tubs need a filter or do you use a filter in the tubs?
I don't use filters. The reason I can get away without filters is that I do not stock too many fish per tub. I limit number of fish to approximately 1 guppy per gallon of tub size. And I do frequent partial to full water changes. I have a past video on cleaning tubs.
Thanks for the vid my guppy had baby fry 3 days ago
Nice job there! You keep them outside all the time? In the winter is not to cold for them? And when is raining you cover them? Thank you!
Here not too cold. I share exact temperatures in a recent past video, say a year ago.
@@kaimukibackyard148 in my country is too cold in the winter, is like -10°C but could reach -25 or even -30°C, so is no way to keep the 🎏 outside. :)
you really like fish
I like raising guppies for now.
I keep my guppy fry in small container, they love it! I am raising 5 right now, but you have so many!!!! How do you have that happen? And do you have any tips to breeding guppies faster? Thanks!
As the females get older and larger, they give birth to more fry. But it's better to raise a few well, then many not so well. I don't have any tips for breeding them faster. I purposely try to slow it down, and breed only a few females at a time. All my tips are in my earliest videos on this channel.
is there an oxygen supply in the tub?
Yes, for explanation, see one of my more recent video: Outdoor "Fishroom" Tour. The part on the Oxygen is near the end. It's a short video anyway.
Yeah at my pet store there are cold water guppies and warm water guppies
+sirarcticwolf ajvids (sirarcticwolf93995) My opinion: you should really check on this. It's a matter of semantics. Guppies can survive in water in the high 60 ºF for while. But it is not ideal, and the guppies will not do well.
Very helpful thank you, also random question, will regular orange guppies mate with fancy gupies?
thanks and yes they'll mate with each other
Hi what water do you reccomend to raise them in? Tap water? Purified? Distilled? It's my first time having a baby fish that actually lives longer than a day, and I'm excited to watch it grow.
Tap water, but you'll need to allow chlorine and fluorine to dissipate, if you're municipal water supply contains it.
i love your videos 😉
Thanks!
Does it have to have a filter supply of can I just put them in a big bucket
Whatever container you use, width matters more than height.
I can never seem to get all the baby guppies in time :( my largest "batch" of fry is still standing strong at 14. My smallest was one! I feel so terrible! I feel like there were more that gotten eaten. :(( i know sometimes it can just be that they have small "batches" of fry too... but how can I make sure that I am collecting as many as I can? I have plenty of plants and hiding spots!
I don't know what you can do other than give plenty of plants for hiding spots.
your are great
Thanks for compliment. Thanks for your viewership.
When you set up your tubs, do you conditions your water as well or do you just leave it as it is?
I use as is.
So much information left out
I chose what's most important and edited for brevity. I'm sure you can find more detail via other's channels.
Thanks dude
You're welcome
Wow great video this will help me lots
Fish Master I'm glad you find it helpful. Good luck and thanks for viewing!
so I put the food into the breeder and they still have not eaten, its been a few days, should I worry?
Yes
I was looking for how soon after birth do the fry need fed.
And do you feed flake food for the new born fry?
I'll keep looking.
Fry feed immediately if food is available. I do feed crushed/powdered flake food to newborn fry.
@@kaimukibackyard148 I crushed flakes into powder and tried egg yolk mixed with water too.
They're so small I couldn't tell if they ate any or even if they looked fatter.
My brine shrimp hatchery fell over last nite so it's flake food again for 24 hours.
Thank you for your help.
what should i do after my female guppy gift birth give the baby eat or what
+Chin Soon Ng As soon as babies are born, I feed them finely crushed flakes. The fry eat immediately.
Hey my guppy to gave birth today what do you recommend me to do
Sorry, your question is too general. Please narrow down your question to something more specific.
plss respond is it ok if i just put the fires in a bucket without pump?
You can, but limit the numbers to say 20 or so in a five gallon bucket. And change the water every other day or more frequently.
Hi, how many gallons do you think about 10 baby guppies need?
5-1/2 gallons for now. Eventually, they'll need a 10 gallon tank as adults, and there is nothing wrong with putting them into a 10 gallon tank now.
Great video!
+BlueRiolu Thank you!
im raising them in a tank what and how often should i feed them? also do they need a heater
There are no absolute rules on how often to feed. I feed crushed flakes.
If your temperatures fall lower than the temperature ranges I cite in the video "temperatures for guppies," then you should use a heater.
a frog jumped to my tub with fry and most of them eated by the frog
+Rel Joshua Tutor Bummer. At least you have some guppies left. All you need is few. Because they give birth to so many fry, it's very easy to rebound your numbers.
Kill the frog, dry it, and give it to the adult guppies. An eye for an eye! Bastard frog! 🐸
Bhaichung Sonam Tsheringla lmao
Do you have a filter for any of these? If not, do you just do major water changes?
+Matthew Guest I do not run filters for any tubs, I do now own a single filter or air pump. I do partial water changes, say 15 to 20 %. It really depends on how many fish are in each tub.
Oh, how often do you do water changes?
+Matthew Guest Every week or two. You may find my video on cleaning with partial water changes interesting: ua-cam.com/video/D-MwNzGMjU0/v-deo.html
How come 3 of my guppy females had babies, and they only had about 15 guppy fry each? Is there a reason for that?
Your question is very common. My thoughts as to reasons are really simple. Other fish are eating the fry before you ever get to see them, or your females are really small (body plus tail fin combined length 1-1/4 inches long or shorter.
@@kaimukibackyard148 Ok, thanks.
will 50 fry grow healtly in a 30 gallon aquarium
yes, if you filter well, keep water clean, and do partial water changes.
i do not have a filter in it but i have a air pump and i do water change
air pump connected to a box filter? or just an airstone? you may as well run a box filter, or at least a sponge filter, if you're already running an air pump.
just air stone
They do nothing for filtration, but you can get a sponge or ugf filter
Is a 5 gallon tank enough for a batch of fry because my feeder guppies are breeding like crazy
yes, but eventually, you'll need more space.
Is it normal for a guppy to give birth to only 2 babies? Mine did
Nope. My guess is that there was more fry but they got eaten before you saw them.
Kaimuki Backyard that was my first thought too
hi nice vid
thanks
no prob it really helped me out
Hi sir I want to know my fishes just had babies and it's like 2 days old can u tell me what to feed because theyr not eating the fish food
are you crushing into a fine powder? if they still don't eat your foods, you may want to try Hikari First Bites.
@@kaimukibackyard148 ok thank u sir
hi, a few days old guppy fries, can they eat baby brine shrimp....???
They can eat baby brine shrimp even as new borns.
@@kaimukibackyard148 great, thanks
one of my guppies just gave birth yesterday. Unfortunately, we didn't get a separate tank for the fry, so most got eaten by my gouramis :( only two are still alive but they hide in the plants, so i think they will be ok.
+sara “Shammeh” skeath Thanks for sharing and finding my channel.
+Kaimuki Backyard np :)
Do you ever have problems with guppy fry coming to a pin tail and dying? Also, have you had problems with adult guppies becoming emancipated due to mycrobacterium marinum aka "fish tuberlosis" ?
I haven't had experience with either of those ailments. Other than the gouramis (shown in a couple of recent videos), I haven't purchased any fish from a pet store since 2009. Therefore, there were no fish disease that came into my population. Even the gouramis, I quarantined them for a week. In one of my sales videos, I show how I sterilize the bucket used to bring the my fish to the pet store. I do this because the pet stores will sometimes dip their net into my bucket. I do what I can to minimize a fish pathogen from infecting my population. So far, so good.
İ ve about 20 fries, that approx. 1 month old. But they are still too small, is there any formula to grow them up faster.
Just the tips that I shared in this video.
Have you posted any videos of what they look like now?
And how to you get your females to breed so much
I looked to my left to see tons of these in my tank
Hello! My guppy gave birth about 3 months about and I decided to keep 2 fry, and I sold the rest to a local store. Currently, they're kept in my 20g tank in a breeder net to keep them away from the adult fish, I'm afraid that my black skirt tetras will try to eat them. My problem is that they're not growing fast at all, even though it's been about 3 months. Do you know if the small breeder net (~.5g) is hindering their growth at all?
Adults emit hormones that inhibit the growth of fry. I raise my fry in their own tubs. They grow way faster in their own tubs. I don't even mix broods, because even fry slightly older will make younger fry not grow. Once juveniles are about 2 months, then they can be kept with slightly older juveniles without slowing their growth.
What size tank is good to keep them in
If you have say 30 to 40 fry, you could get by with a 10 gallon tank... this way the fry can find the food easily. BUT... do partial water changes at least twice a week, about 20% to 30% changes. It really does make a ton of difference on their growth. Within a month, you'll need to move them to a larger tank, say 20 gallons. Continue with the water changes.
Hi, what has been the lowest temperature you have kept guppies or any other tropical livebearer outside during the winter season?
Around 59 F. But only for a day or two.
How much guppies are left with you when you sell the others to the pet store..how do you restock them?....thanks
I wait until I get fry, then I sell all the adults, keeping only the fry. I restock by growing out the fry.
Hi do you feed them live food?
No. Although it would be better, I don't have time to feed live foods.
Guppy fish's baby just Bron on my fish tank. Gold fish is good for them or not???? Pls sir reply me
I don't know.
No thay will eat them you must put them in a separate tenk not with guppie adults or gold fish totally separate till thay are bigger
how does the guppy fry get oxygen inside the tub ? Also is it water too hot for the guppy fry leaving out of the sun?
***** These tubs have much larger surface areas than glass-sided aquariums of similar gallon volume. Therefore, it's enough so accomplish the oxygen absorption and carbon dioxide excessing that is needed, for the amount of fish I have in each of the tubs.
The water does get quite warm in the Sun, especially now with Summer approaching when the air temperature is already warm. The surface of the water is around mid-80's °F, but if I put my hand down deeper into the water, the water near the bottom is noticeably cooler, and the fish will hang out there. My tubs receive about 4 to 5 hours of direct sunlight, outside of this 4 to 5 hours, the tubs are shaded by my house, and some trees. In the Summer, I wouldn't position the tubs in locations where they'd receive more sunlight than this.
You have very great videos and ideas please where are you from ?
+Katarína Šaušová Thanks! I try to keep videos simple and to the point. I'm from Hawaii. What about you?
+Kaimuki Backyard I am from Slovakia
how many days before u feed your fry after birth??
no wait time at all, I feed them right away.
how long can u keep the guppies in tubs untill they eventually need filter ? i been watching ur videos and since then i been putting my newborns un tubs... but jst need to know how long i can keep them without a filter or any airation??? KAIMUKI backyard
If you avoid overcrowding your fish, and don't allow your fish to multiply uncontrollably, you can keep them in tubs without a filter indefinitely. Allow one gallon for every adult guppy.
Thanks for the info !!! You are a legend to me!!! my name is Anil from england from now i will be following your methods :) i ill definetly keep in contact with you mate, using my wife's account atm so when i open mine, i will keep in contact... thanks for the info and the videos, keep up the good work bro
great...
1 gallon = 3.7 liters ...just hate the imperial measures
What if I cant use a tub?
same concepts with a glass aquarium.
Kaimuki Backyard Is a 1.5 gallon ok for while they are growing (Only thing I could afford) and then its into my 10 gallon tank, all I need is for them to grow to be big enough to mate with adult males. ( I have 5 adult males and no females) what size would that be. Also how fast would they grow in the 1.5 gallon tank, it has shelter for them.
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1.5 gallon will not house fry for very long, and unless you change water nearly every day, the fry will grow slowly. I personally wouldn't attempt to raise fry in a tank or other container that small. Here's another approach you might consider: Find a another home for your 5 adult males, and use your 10 gallon tank for the fry you have. I cyclically do this. I sell off all my adult guppies and keep only the fry. At the moment, I personally have 12 adult guppies. I'm waiting for fry to be born, then I'll be getting rid of all adults, so that I can devote all my tub space to growing fry. I am working on a new video on this to be finished in a couple weeks. Also, I have a past video where I got rid of all adult guppies: ua-cam.com/video/vHr3tDVOg7I/v-deo.html
Kaimuki Backyard I got a divider but the fry still got in with the guppies somehow
Kaimuki Backyard I cant afford another tank as well, because this is for my science experiment where I breed male guppies and female endlers but I could only buy them (Endlers) at 30 days old. And I went over my budget already so maybe could I get a male endler and a female guppy and if my endler fry arent grown uet could I put those fry in the same tank? Or would that be overcrowded?
I have a high fry mortality rate due to dragon fly larvae in my grow out pond :(
should i add in a a grown up guppy the with the fry?
I tried putting a net but somehow their is still some dragonfly larvae that get in
Adult guppies cannot eat the dragonfly larvae after the larvae grow large. You need to break the system down, OR just wait it out. The larvae will morph into adults and fly away.
What kind of plants are in those bins?
Lychee fruit tree
No Lilly pads
Can we feed them wheat powder to the babies
Baby guppies need more protein that I believe wheat powder will provide.
I've been wondering when my guppy had her fry, it appears they are about a week. We saw them 6 days ago, we weren't sure if it was the day they were born or not. Thanks!
Hard to advise you given the limited information. But one clue would be if you seen one of your female guppies become slimmer. You'll need to have noticed this during the first day or two though, because females guppies have a way of becoming plump again, within one or two days after giving birth.
Should i feed the fry after they are born?
Absolutely
Do you ever do water changes in those tubs or you just leave them be? Any filters etc?
alex chuck Yes, once the fry are about a month old, I will be using the steps in this video: ua-cam.com/video/D-MwNzGMjU0/v-deo.html to siphon debris from these two nursery tubs, say every week or so. I do not run any filters on these tubs. I don't siphon at this stage because since the fry are small, I may accidentally suck them up in the siphon. Because the fry are small, and they are in relatively large tubs, the water easily stays at a very good quality for at least the first month. Your question is a VERY good one, and I was hoping someone would ask it. I wanted to address this in a comment (exactly like this), rather than make the video any longer.
How does he or how do u maintain the temperature of the tub guppy need warm water
I don't do anything special because I live in a warm climate. I have a video called "Temperatures for Guppies", posted sort of recently.
How do I cover the filter, so the fry won't get sucked up?
I don't know what kind of filter you are trying to cover up. But a good choice for fry are sponge filters.
How to your fry grow quickly
the tub make the difference or the food
Outdoor tubs make more difference than the food.
Should I feed them when they are just born
Yes
@@kaimukibackyard148 oh good because I did I wasn't sure
Ok thx
Mine gave birth one hour ago
Great
How is the algae grow
It just grows. I don't do anything.
So you could put them in tubs without a filter? I'm just wondering
+TruckzAreBeazt Yes, if you don't overload the tubs with fish. For guppies, this works out to about a fish per gallon. Stock tubs with even less guppies if you want your fish to grow faster and bigger.
+Kaimuki Backyard Ok thx for the help :)
do i have to use a tub or not?
Tub or aquarium are fine
How long do you keep the Guppys separated from adult guppy
All you need 1 Week
hey.so my guppy gave birth to 6 fry about 10 days ago and now she looks so fat and almost squared shape so is that possibile that she is pregnant again and might give birth soon?
Yes, look for more fry 23 to 33 days after she last gave birth.
Oh and one more thing. Do you sell water Lilly's? I see that you have a lot of baby ones! I'm trying to breed Guppies as well and I would love to have some water Lilly's in my tub! :) I probably live far away from you so i think it's going to be done by shipping.
alex chuck I sell them infrequently, and only in my local area. I've never shipped plants because agricultural rules here make it quite an involved process. You are much better off purchasing water lilies from any on of numerous sources that regularly ship water lilies. And because water lilies are climate specific, these companies websites' advise you to which types will thrive in your temperature zone. Good luck.
hey for ur tub that u keep ur guppie in do u use a felter to keep it clean or do u just leave it and refill it with water
+Jax Vue I don't use a filter. I do partial water changes. See: ua-cam.com/video/D-MwNzGMjU0H/v-deo.htmlope this helps.
+Jax Vue Also, in the comments section under this other video: ua-cam.com/video/dlJQ8Ral_I8/v-deo.html, there is great back and forth dialog with Adrian Tam. In this dialog, I describe the how I clean my tubs. Good Luck.
Are you suppose to put warm water or cold water for fry guppies
+Madara EPIC Warm water- same conditions as the adults.
How do u catch all your fish in black tubs
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These guppy fry are of a golden bodied strain, so they stand out against the black tub (unlike grey bodied guppies).
I have 30-40 silver molly fry, how do I sell them? Or atleast maintain them?
start by raising them in a separate tank...
Can I feed Frozen Artemia (Brine Shrimp) to Guppy Fry?
Frozen brine shrimp are adults which are too large for guppy fry.
What will feed the fry
I feed TetraMin flakes by crushing it fine
What will graze the guppy
how will this grow
i'm sorry, I don't understand your question
I got 2 iridiscent shark in my guppy tub... Is there a prblm in tat, would they eat fry.
Probably, but not a problem, guppies have lots of fry.
Kaimuki Backyard kkk
I had one HAD cuz its adult
Great
do you change the water of the 50g tanks?
yes, partial water changes.
Dear kaimuki,
Please tell me how to avoid guppy fry having a spine problem...coz at store, the guppy fry that they keep does not have spine problem( I guess )... So tell me how to avoid guppy fry from having a spine problem... P.S. I was wondering how all of your guppy fry have normal body shape
Emelda Hanim I believe most spine problems are the result of inherited genes-- a trip to any pet store reveals many guppies with crooked spines. I would definitely avoid purchasing these if your intent is keep and raise their fry. My original Sunset Micariff guppies, back in 2009, had straight spines when viewed from the top, and nicely tapered shape when viewed from the side. With every generation, I carefully select which ones to breed.
Inherited genes?
Kaimuki Backyard so how how to avoid it?
Emelda Hanim You'll need to scrutinize the fish you purchase. When selecting fish in the pet store, look at them from the sides, and also from the top. Avoid guppies with any sign of crookedness in their spine. The females will probably come already pregnant, so with first few births, examine the fry carefully. If any show signs of spine crookedness, keep them separate and do not use for breeding.
Can I have some please
How old are they when u sale them?
+kiki feo I discuss the age and why here: ua-cam.com/video/QvBv9GNgB_Q/v-deo.html. Thanks for question.