Looking After Guppies

This is a site that pertains to the Fancy Tail Guppies, guppy fry and breeding guppies.

get more females b/c the males are horny creatures lol and alot of stress would be piled on the female.. buy fake plants and have a net and a breeder ...

fancy guppy brings you all information about fancy guppies or show guppies. read about guppy behavior, feeding, breeding, setting guppy tank, taking guppy care.

wikiHow article about How to Breed Guppies. ... tank after the female or females get pregnant. You can tell whether the female is pregnant or not by looking ...

Learn about Guppy fish. Feeding habits, fish tank set-up, breeding information enclosed with pictures.

A site for guppy lovers - tips, breeding, pictures, message board, etc. ... After a day, remove the female so that she can enjoy some R & R and the best food you ...

are looking for? Getting New Guppies? Some tips to keep your new guppy, and the fish you ... Sometimes guppies seem to die soon after purchase with no apparent ...

Freshwater Aquariums question: Why would the female guppies keep dying after giving birth? AnswerDying can be caused by a few different things. Young guppies that ...

In a 10 gallon tank, Guppies would be immensely better. Livebearers do best when kept with more females than males (at least 1:2), so in a 10 ...

Once you have a few healthy guppies all you have to do is partial water changes, feed ... 9. Look after your guppies. If you spot some fry, try to remove them as fast as you can. ...

Guppy fish care for one of the popular freshwater aquarium fish. ... Breeding and caring for guppies is a great hobby that can be very rewarding. ...

Oct 7, 2006 ... I've heard guppies are fairly easy to take care of, and they are also .... and that's hard compared to looking after some small little fish ...

The day after I got my guppies, neon tetra, and algae eaters, ... Fish usually swim at the top and "look like looking for something" if there's something ...

Share This Site More. Not the site you are looking for? .... Therefore, do not separate the female from the male after this first drop, even if she seems ...

Buy NO MORE than 5 very hardy fish (i.e. Guppies or Platies). ... After reading your article regards looking after the tank I seem to be using the light too ...

Caring, breeding and looking after guppy fish is easy and not much is required to be done. They are quite a hardy lot and adjust well to changing conditions ...

Jan 8, 2008 ... Breeding and caring for guppies is a great hobby that can be very rewarding. ... After the new tank has cycled when levels are ammonia zero, ...

After the female appears empty of her fry she can be returned to her original tank. Now you have your first drop of guppies. Make certain you label them and ...

Aug 2, 2010 ... I have been looking for fish to put in the other two. ... I ... bought 3 male fancy tail guppies. After putting them in the tank, ...

The guppy, or Poecilia Reticulata as he is known scientifically, has been available to the aquarium hobby for over one hundred years. ...

Hey everybody Ok, well i bought a Dwarf Gourami about a week ago and it is still so shy whenever someone will go near the tank or make any sudden movements, he will dash in his little rock and only come out after everyone has stoped moving or has left the room. even when i feed them he dashes in the rock and i have to wait till he comes out so i can drop food down the back and make sure he has food. I have a 100L tank and it is quite busy, in it i have 2 red eyes, 6 guppies (male+female) and quite a lot of guppy fry in weed, 3 rummy noses, 4 Neon tetra, 2 Black neon, 3 Glowlight Tetra, zebra and leopard Danio ( 4 of each) and thas it. it sounds a lot but my Gourami has plenty of swimming space. so please can anybody help because he is so beautiful and i want to look at him all the time. Oh yes and the thing is that in the pet shop i got him from he was in a community tank much like mine and he was not shy at all.

STOCKING FOR GOLDFISH 75 gal. minimum, 20 gal. for each added after. Best suited for ponds-- Common, Comet, Shubunkin, Butterfly Tail, Jikin, Oranda, Ryukin. 55 gal. minimum, 20 gal. for each added after-- Black Moor, Fantail, Veiltail, Pearlscale. 30 gal. minimum, 10 gal. for each added after-- Bubble Eye, Celestial Eye, Lionchu, Ranchu, Lionhead, Pompon. Find out what kind you have, and get the proper tank size. They should have double filtering (a 60 gal. filter on a 30 gal. tank), they should have a ton of aeration. 25% water changes should be done bi-weekly via replacing what was taken out when vacuuming the gravel. There should be no live plants. There should be no other fish (particularly small ones) other than your goldfish. They should only be fed as much as they can eat in five minutes every other day, and flakes should be avoided. Goldifish, however, prefer to have no substrate in the tank. STOCKING FOR A BETTA Betta are tropical fish. They need a 5 gallon space without other fish. Males are to be kept alone, and females can be kept in soroities. Shrimp may be kept provided there is an ample amount of hiding places, as well as Mystery snails. They prefer to have an under gravel filter, though a low current filter will do. They are not very messy, and do not require any kind of extra filtering. They do, however, require a weekly 25% water change. This is best done by vacuuming the gravel and replacing the water that is taken out in the process. They need a heater set to a constant 78F, and a thermometer to make sure the temperature is right. Gravel, sand, or frosted glass stones are all acceptable substrate, though it's best to use sand if you're putting live plants in the tank. A tank hood with a light that can be turned on and off on a 12 hour schedule will do a lot of good with health and activity. Lights shouldn't, obviously, be turned on and off rapidly. Silk or real plants are prefered because plastic plants will tear up their fins pretty fast. Real plants are best because they aerate the tank. You should have a few plants that break the surface of the water, as well as a few medium and short plants as well. They like to swim through and nestle down into the plants. A small cave should be provided, though care should be taken when selecting any decorations. Take a pantyhose with you and run it over the decorations you're thinking of. If it snags, so will your bettas fins. In my opinion, for a planted tank, small halved terracotta pots look the best. They should be fed small betta pellets (3-5 per day) for 5 days (these can be swapped with blood worms to days), half a shelled pea the 6th day, and nothing on the 7th day so that they can digest correctly. oscars? STOCKING FOR A TEN GALLON 1 male betta, 4 mystery snails 1 male betta, 5-10 ghost shrimp 1 male betta, 2-3 african dwarf frogs 1 butterfly fish 1 Male Kenyi cichlid (sand substrate, no live plants) 2 tanganyikan shell-dwelling cichlids (1m/1f) 2 honey gouramis (1m/1f) 2 blue killifish (1m/1f) 2 pygmy killifish (1m/1f) 3 dwarf oto cats 3 DWARF puffers (1m/2f) 3 pygmy gouramis (1m/2f) 3 sparkling gouramis (1m/2f) 3-5 platies 5 female bettas 4-6 male guppies 4-6 male endlers livebearers 4-6 dwarf rasbora 6 emerald dwarf rasbora 6 pygmy hatchetfish 6-8 white cloud mountain minnows (these are coldwater) 15-30 cherry shrimp 15-30 crystal red shrimp 15-30 bamboo shrimp 15-35 ghost shrimp 4-6 pygmy/dwarf/albino/Julii corys may be kept as bottom dwellers with: gouramis, platies, guppies, endlers livebearers, rasboras, hatchetfish. 3 fiddler crabs. 1 male and 2 female. These are best kept alone in their group, as fish are part of their natural diet. They need a half land half water setup that consists of brackish water and sand. They eat shrimp pellets. No barbs, no danios, no neon tetras (or any kind of tetras), no blue/gold/opaline gouramis, no goldfish, no parrot fish, no oscars, no angelfish, no piranhas, no plecos. PLEASE ANSWER ONLY IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE HELPFUL IN SOME WAY. Dear DanielC. All of your info is wrong. Goodbye.

A couple or several days ago, I noticed one of my female guppies was tinted a bit more greener or yellowish than the rest of the guppies. She also had light red stretch mark-looking stripes vertically where the tail is connected to the body. She looked like she had a disease so I kept her in a separate bowl from all the other guppies. She stopped eating and then died in about 2 days. THEN this morning another female guppy looked exactly like the one that had died of the weird red stripes on her and the weird color change, so I put her by herself in a bowl away from others. I was just hoping no one else would get this disease after her, but then just now, after a few hours of taking the diseased female from this morning, another female from the aquarium died all of a sudden in the tank. She had a dark green spot on the side of her neck... It did not look like what the other two had. I don't know what to do.. Should I clean out the entire aquarium? Is buying a cure to put in the water from a pet store my only choice to stop the disease from killing all? Thank you very much.

Hi!! :) I have a 20g tank that's cycling right now. I want to have 5 Male Guppies, 4 Julii Cory, and a school of 6 Tetras. I love the bright colors of Glofish, but after looking up Zebra Danios, I found put they get 2 inches big, which would be too large to add 6? Anyway, so I want either Neons or Cardinals. Here are the Pros and Cons I've hears about: NEONS- PROS: Slightly smaller Less Expensive Bit hardier than Cardnals, though Tetras are sensitive in general CONS: Less coloration Doesn't school at tightly CARDINALS- PROS: More coloration Schools Tightly CONS: Less hardy, more delicate More expensive Bit bigger As for my tank: It's a 20H and has sand as substrate. Lighty planted with all fake plants except for a bamboo stalk. There's a few decor pieces here an there, and basically that's it. Thanks!!! Sorry if it was too long! The pros and cons took up a lot of room.

Just recently my crab died and my fish got sick. 2 Guppies died, and 6 Platties died after the crab died. And looks like one of my Koi fish is getting sick cuz he is starting to swim sideways. I'm very scared for my fish. Any suggestions on what i should do? I changed the water and they still seem to be very weak. Thank you for your time.

First off, it's not my fault. My boyfriend is like a 5 year old when we go into the lfs. "Oh, look at this one, he's AWESOME!" Nevermind the fact that it will out-grow our tank and eat all MY fish in the process.... I have a 55 gallon freshwater, 3 guppies, 2 dojo loaches, 1 blue lobster (crayfish, full-grown, 5inches), 1 betta, 5 neon tetras, 3 serpae tetras and 1 green spotted scat.... And he decided to bring home a Dinosaur Bichir. (Eel) Which can get up to 20" and will eat everything it can fit in its mouth! Should I just take it to the lf guy I always go to, (he's been in business in my area for over 40 years, he knows his stuff) and just tell my boyfriend it died? Again, with his 5 year old complex, he never takes care of the fish after he buys one, anyway, so he wouldn't know. Yeah, he was the cause of the scat as well, but I named him and love him. :( Tank has been slightly brackish since it was established about a year ago, and the guppies have been the longest survivors, so I think they're cool with it. And yes, I WILL be keeping an eye on the scat...

ive had what i thought were male guppies for a yr,2day ive seen about 16 babies in the tank,there nearly 1cm long, could someone please tell me about what age r they and what i should do to look after them, i cant get to my local fish shop till monday as i havent got my car this weekend, thankyou

We've lost 7 fish since mid-April, most of which died in the first couple of hours of being added to the tank. First we had a 1 gallon beta fish tank, which we lost 2 Beta and 1 Gold fish. We traded it in for a 2,5 gallon tank thinking the 1 gallon was a killing field. We only looked to add 2 fish total to the tank, knowing we had the size per gallon constraints. We've had the water tested, and while some of the elements were considered on the high end, all were within tolerance according to the shop. The latest two to die have been an Angel Fish and a Dalmation Molly. OK, the angel fish was a mistake in purchase long term, so it really doesn't count - but because it was small it wasn't a size issue when added. I didn't realize how fragile the fish was because I use to have them when growing up and never had an issue. But the Molly was a shocker last night. We did everything we thought we were suppose to do: 1) floated the bag to adjust the temperature, 2) bled off some of the water before adding the fish, 3) added the fish. We added water stabilizer with the stress enzyme to ensure the water was acceptable to the fish's transition. The Molly is suppose to be a hearty fish, which was what we discussed with the shop helper. The tank has one fish alive in it, which psychologically must be mess now that all these fish die around it. It looks like it is stressed - breathing fast, jittery. It is a fancy guppy and has been the only fish to take to the tank. This has to be a shock in transition issue, doesn't it? My kid is really getting a negative experience on this, and I am tempted to pull the plug. But I am also trying to balance the quitting issue as well. Any help is appreciated.

i have 15 platies and 30 guppy fry in 20 gallon . i found a white patch on one guppy so i add 1 table spoon salt per gallon slowly .according to me it was ick . so next day white patch has gone .keep salt for ten days and then slowly chage the water in 3 days . in spite of that my guppies are rubbing their bodies on gravel . and some of them remain surface of the aquarium with clamped fins. after adding salt my platies stop eating . they are not eating any thing i also use garlic in the feead egg yolk but they dont eat anything . some platies changed their colour some yellow or whitish cloudy . they standing in the corner of the aquarium or stay still in the bottom . and looking stress . now i seperate them but they are still same and not eating any thing . now i bought methylen blue for them . Can methylen blue cure the disease and how to use methylen blue .And how many days i should have to keep the medicine in the water . and the patch on guppy can be fungus or it was ick . Thanks

So I am looking to add a snail to my tank of guppies 29 gal but I want a snail that won't reproduce. We had an apple snail and had baby snails for up to 2 years after it died! :( So what kind of snail won't reproduce on it's own? I was thinking a mystery snail...? Please help thanks!