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how can you tell when guppies are preg. | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Reply to HELP HELP HELP (none / 0) (#5)
by Angelee on Wed Nov 19, 2003 at 06:42:39 PM PST

Some female guppies I have found out the hard way,...ahem .. can be a little picky about where they have the babies. If you put her in the small, uncomfortable egg laying plastic doo-hickey (no, I don't prefer the technical term, that's what it looks like and that's what I call it),too soon some females will refuse or become stressed and sometimes may even have them too soon. I try to separate them into a larger tank if I have enough warning. Unfortunately, like all babies they usually like to come in the middle of a might, a blizzard preferably,..you know.. Don't worry. The female will tend to suddenly become a loner, and sometimes a once popular female will suddenly become decidedly unpopular to the males (if you have other females in the tank). Get a small fish brine net, if she has them in the large tank. Transfer them to the smaller tank, or the plastic thing until you acquire a (I use a 20 gallon, but I'm told that's overkill) small 10 gallon baby tank. If you want to leave them in the tank. Get some java moss and attach it to a plastic log or floating ornament, then you won't have to move them at all.
"The Rocky Mountain Gupster" ANGELEE

small, uncomfortable egg laying plastic doo-hickey (none / 0) (#6)
by unclescott on Wed Nov 19, 2003 at 08:01:06 PM PST

is kinder that what a lot of people call those floating chambers. "Death traps" sound harsh, but been there, mourned that.

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how can you tell when guppies are preg. | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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