@@MrVintagecyclist breeding box and a breeding tank are different things. Typically a breeding tank is a 10 gallon tank or more used specifically for breeding fish or housing pregant fish to keep them safe. A breeding box is a small box that hangs inside a tank to keep the pregnant fish and their babies once born safe for short periods of time
Remember when she’s getting ready to give birth her behaviour will change, she will stay lower to the ground, she will be contracting up to a few weeks before, it will look a little like spasms, when it’s closer to the time she will also look like ahead stander so her back will be up in the air and her head down, she may stay in place like this for a while and it’s likleu she may also go off her food
I have no idea if mines is pregnant but ive moved her awag from the other fish i own so if she does give birth i dont have to worry aboit the babies getting eaten
The mother will also eat her fry, you Can also give al loth of hidingplace for the fry bcs seperating the mother gives a loth of stress. Bush On this way you cant save a loth of fry
Thank you this was very helpful as I've owned several platys over the last last three years and I went to buys some guppies for the first time with the intention to breed them ( I got 1 male and 2 females) and as soon as I had released them into the tank I realised that the to females were already pregnant. Thankfully I already have a breeder box
I had a female guppy that developed dropsy and she became pregnant, she ended up dying a week after giving birth to the guppy fry, her fry are 2 months old now! Can dropsy be passed onto the guppy fry if the mother had it?
I’ve had one molly and one guppy since they were very small, several months. Woke up two weeks ago and there were fry in my tank. I counted 4 at first but now there are only two. I was shocked to learn that my molly and guppy mated. The fry stay hidden for the most part at the bottom of my tank ( I have a nice amount of plants in my tank). Can’t wait until they are bigger so I can see what they will look like.
You have some pretty guppies!!! I am in a live-bearers breeding sorta place and just wanted to know the last thing I needed, was when my females would be ready to give birth. Thanks for the tips! My females look like the will EXPLODE !!! I'll catch them to put I'm my breeding/hatchery box! Then I'll have guppy fry to take care of. Yay!
My guppie mum died yesterday because she was so heavily pregnant 😰 We started of with 6 guppies now we have 70 😊 Also I have some of the exact same guppies as you 😃
My female is pregnant and I found 4 fry extremely early in my tank and I got the baby out but 1 of my serpae tetras at the last one so I’m waiting for the proper batch
I have 3 female guppy’s there all pregnant I put one of them in the breeding tank she has had 7 but she has stopped but she still looks pregnant and she is not finished how do I know when she is finished
I’m new to tropical fish an just seen half a dozen baby’s in my tank , So I looked for advice an found your vid , I’ll look out for the squared look cheers 👍😁
Yes and no. Yes because the mother will eat the babies. If you want 100% survival rate then yes but if you have plenty of hiding spots and your okay with losing some of the fry then no.
The breeder isn’t to stop other guppies from bothering each other it’s to stop the fry from being eaten so like the previous person said if you have lots of hiding places and are okay with losing a few babies leave them in the tank with the others otherwise separate the mom until she gives birth
Hey so I don't know if you will ever see this comment but I have a pregnant guppy that has given birth once to two babies and after that has been pregnant again for going on a month now I have isolated her in a different tank before and nothing came out of that so is it possible that the babies might be just "stuck" for lack of a better word
Thank you so much for this I’ve had guppies before when and it was so hard to determine when they were gonna give birth. I now have a new aquarium with guppies and Now I know how to tell if they are about to give birth
I just got guppies, I don't have a breeder box so idk what to do with my prego fish. 3 of them look like they are about to pop but haven't yet. Will they give birth in the regular tank?
Yay an Aussie. Thanks for the video. Just bought my first pair of guppies. Cichlid owner here. Looking forward to the proliferation of more guppies! Good tip. Squared off abdomen.
My 2 female guppies bred with endlers and one gave birth to 10 fry already but the second female has been squared off for almost a week now, and i can't tell when she with give birth. Im hoping its not a bad batch because of the hybridization. She's already isolated in a 10 gallon. Any tips?
I have a question, because im new to this? Do the females like, always die after birth!? Or is there ways to prevent that by keeping her in a birthing unit ? Unless shes sick of course?
Hi, nice info, please guide me regarding guppies, as to why they die soon, I hv around 14 guppies, but daily one dies, please let me know how to take care of them
i think 2 of my guppies are pregnant but i'm not sure about the smaller one. i rescued a few 2 weeks ago and the girl didnt say. lol. i am looking for more tanks. where did you get the light behind your tank?
So I have 3 females and a male one had babies we lost all but 1 as we didn't know they were pregnant now I have 2 pregnant females and one is on her own in a separate tank as I can see fry eyes on the belly of mama I was wondering if she is separate will I be able to save some babies ???
Hi Lisa, First, Congratulations! I would recommend you remove the female from the original tank with the male and females. The female guppy will feel safer and less stressed. If you can put the female in a small box with some plants in it so that the female won’t eat her own fry. If she looks thinner then take her out so she won’t eat the fry. I hope this helps!
After the video we checked and it seems our two females are both pregnant! We have a lot of plants for fry to hide, what if we leave them in the tank? We worry they might get weakened if we keep them separated for too long. We are just 2 months in the business in case you wonder about our ignorance :)
Plenty of food was also our idea. thank you. we will try to remember to report the outcome when we know it (let's hope the pregnancy is not imaginary :)
Thank you for your advice. It seems we recognized the pregnancy 19 days in advance. So it was pretty early if pregnancies are just 30 days long. Our mom guppy delivered yesterday. One slow baby was instantly eaten by its daddy (less than 1 sec. after delivery). After a night of darkness, only 8-10 fry were in the tank. One of the unpregnant females was on a prowl and we took it away to a separate tank. A few hours later, we had 44 babies of which we took around 15 to a separate small tank. By the evening, there was no evidence of babies being eaten. We had lots of plants, strong light, heater on, and the filter on. The adults like to frolic in the filter stream, and the babies grouped above the leaves of hygrophila in a large school. We fed the adult more than usual 3-4 times in a single day. Now we are not sure if the strategy is right. The babies in the tank have stagnant and colder water, few plants and no entertainment. The babies in the fish tank are seemingly happy, like to swim in the water flow, stay in a group, are agile, and they are ready for the first night of darkness (no filter in the night). Which group do you think will do better? I worry that if I miss any feeding window for adults, they will discover a bonanza and the fry will have to fight for their lives. At the moment, we plan to watch babies grow, bring back the prowling female in a day or two (if she is ok on her own). And hope for early reunification in proportion to fry growth. Thank you again for spotting our pregnancy early ... we got time to prepare!!! :)
Peter BeginnerDad why are you keeping the fry in colder water? 1. these are tropical fish they like warm water 74 at the lowest 2. The warmer the water the faster they grow so if you’re trying to quickly grow them to a size where you no longer need to worry about them being eaten turn the temp up to 76-80 and feed lots of baby brine shrimp and cyclops
My guppies live with a pearl gourami, phantom tetras and neon tetras, do you think fi I seperate the mum from the rest of the guppies and the fish and if the fry live with the other fish, do you think they would get eaten? And also if I do seperate the fry from the tank, do they need a filter/air pump
I think you should buy or make a breeder box or set up a smaller tank for the guppy to give birth, then feed and grow the fry until they’re big enough to not fit into the mouth of the other fishes in your community tank
Can females pass away after too many pregnancies? I rather separate my females and males if that will happen. Both females have not become pregnant though they always run away which comes to my second question. Do females become too stressed if being chased constantly and can it cause them to die?
Thank you for the info I had to remove 2 very pregnant females from the tank and put them into a feeder box, the males were harassing them. Then, they began to harrass each other...so, 2 breeder boxes. They were calm for a few now frantic up and down in the boxes, I guess this is go time!
Mine has a naturally black spot all over her abdomen but she's getting bigger like pregnant big. How can I know if she really is pregnant or if she's ready to give birth?
Put mine in breader box as she was squared of i turned the light, of and checked in her a hour later and she was dead and no babies have u any idea why this happened
How long does it take from start to finish?? I just spend two hours fishing up two babies from the back where the filter works. I’m not about to save anymore
Hey! Thanks for this video! Best video I’ve seen. I’m trying to breed my guppies and I have one lady who is pregnant but she gravid spot goes dark and then some days I can’t see it at all, I really want to catch her before she gives birth but i also don’t want to put her in the box to early! I’d love some help! Thanks claudia. X
I bought 3 females from a pet shop, I don’t have any males but I think they are very pregnant. They all have pretty big bodies and they all have pretty black gravid spots but their bellies aren’t square, they are just very circular. When do you think they will give birth?
No smh female guppies store sperm they do not need a male to give birth. If the conditions are right in the tank she will become pregnant and she can get pregnant many more times as well due to the fact that they store sperm. The gennady give birth 21 to 30 days. The minnows will eat the babies the mother could to have lots of hiding spots like plants and such. This is probably too late but wth for future reference now you know if you didnt find out.
Pretty cool its wild caught you will have some authentic guppies if you do decide to keep any babies. The ones sold in stores genetically speaking are prob mixed with all kinds of different types of guppies
I just got 3 female guppies and two males , today , the day after I got them, I found one of the females dead(they are in a ten gallon with my betta ,my betta isn’t usually aggressive and is acting fine now but he killed her )so now I have 2males and 2 females , one of which is pregnant from when I got her , so I dolnt know which type of guppy she bred with before I got her. I’m hoping for blue guppies but it’s not likely, as long as they look nice
I literally have only 1 female guppy with 5 female gouramis and 2 tetras and then just a few days ago I found a baby fish I'm so confused can guppies give birth by themself or hold sperm from older fish I'm literally so confused how I have a baby fish
Hey keeping fish simple do you need to put aquarium salt in your tank ? Because i dont have any i want to know if its worth me buying it and not sure qhat its for
Mine didn’t increase in size so I just assumed she wasn’t pregnant til one of my other fishes started chasing her round and I had to hurry and put her in a breeder box before they ate the fry. So far she’s only had one and it’s not moving and it’s probably been around 30mins. This is my first time keeping guppies so I’m not sure what to do at this point.
I have 2 heavily pregnant female guppies (sadly I have no timescale as they were already pregnant when bought from the aquarium shop),the largest has been swimming still with back arched and even twitching her tail so I put her in a breeding pod (like the one you showed but has a fry trap and a partition) after 3days still no fry so I put her back,it’s been 2days since I put her back and today I noticed both heavily pregnant females gravid spots (that were both black before) have now turned pink/red/brown kinda colour with black spots ,any idea what’s happening here please? Please note I’ve just completed a fish-in cycle and my tank is currently in bacterial bloom and slightly cloudy (considering a 50% water change but don’t want to stress my pregnant females,so any advice given is appreciated. Also,awesome video with great details,thank you so much!
My guppy has a boxy belly but always is hidding 98% of the time behind the water filter box thing and just stay there and barely moves I can't tell if she's sick or pregnant
Thank you! My guppy is looking square so hope all goes well, but you didnt go into what to do after the babies start to come out. Do I take her out? Etc...
Ilene Snyder-Lippincott mother guppies usually take a while, sometimes even up to an hour just giving birth, so it’s good if you notice her giving birth and leave her to it for a day, then remove her to avoid her eating her fry. But make sure where she’s giving birth,the fry has lots of hiding space to avoid being eaten. Hope this helps!
You can buy guppy or gold fish breeder tank, it floats inside your fish tank, just put the mum to be in there. When she has her baby’s they will go to the bottom of it through a false floor separated from the mother , they don’t get eaten that way, take mum out the next day and leave the baby’s in there till they get bigger. It’s very nice to see when you get the baby’s for the first time .
Ik this is a very late comment... I just watched the vid. 2 of my guppy’s were pregnant and 1 already gave birth to 13 babies. Some might’ve been eatin when they came out. My other guppy did not give birth yet but how do I tell when she is gonna give birth. I’d it normal for her body to get more color? She is getting some blue in her now.......
Hi I've been raising guppies for over two year's when I know when she about to give birth I put her in the box and she has her small fries my question is having the same fish in the tank I have all guppies raised from birth in the same tank there all drifrent sizes can they be to closely related can that affect there health
You're right, it all depends on their genetic diversity! Just like humans or any other animal, a brother and sister, father/daughter, mother/son, whatever... mating can cause any number of genetic problems, most probably sterility... but I'm not an expert, that's just common sense! If you have a number of tanks with different families of Guppies, that would probably be your best bet! :-)
Every so often take out some of your guppies and add in some new guppies it’ll help to add new genetics to your tank. You can probably trade guppies with a local fish store or sell them for a credit
I have a guppy and she always stays at the bottom so I dont know if she is sick or in labor or ready to give birth while watching this Is know what to do Thankyou!!
If I were you, I'd get another tank, specifically for breeding, and have the female in that one, then transfer whichever male you want to mate with her from your display tank into that tank. Once she's pregnant, transfer that male back into your display tank.
I have a male and female guppy in a 16-17g planted tank and for some reason I see A fry but my female guppy doesn't have a gravid spot and a big stomach. There is no way the person who work in the pet store scooped it up because the male and female guppies are seperated. Can anybody explain how the fry got there?
The female could have given birth. They can store the males genetic material for up to a few months and impregnate themselves without any males present. So it mostly depends on how long the females had been separated, and how accurate the pet store was in sexing them.
Most pet stores order their fish from suppliers out of the country and when they’re shipped usually a male or 2 end up in the bag with the females. The babies were probably eaten depending on how much you’re feeding doesn’t matter how many hiding spots you have hungry guppies will hunt down the fry to eat them.
@ thanks I swear my guppies have been pregnant for awhile now but they are in tank with feeder goldfish and fancy tail gold's and 1 algae eater wondering if they are too stressed with these fish to have their babies
@ o man I forgot the kind someone told me the kind that will eventually need meat in their diet as the get older he's black and picks on my fancy tails
Megan Newland the babies are probably being eaten or the mom is aborting the fry. If she doesn’t think the environment is a good environment she’ll abort the fry.
I had gotten a bunch of guppies and mollies last Friday as a surprise gift but you could imagine my shock when the next day a molly and a guppy were giving birth at the same time. I was absolutely shocked since I had no idea they were pregnant... and sadly was not prepared enough so 2/3's of the babies had died in the process It turns out that 4 of the 8 female I have are pregnant, just my luck ... as a first-time owner this is going to be tough so thanks for the video!
I've bred guppies years ago, I only had guppies in the tank and used to just fish out the babies and put them in another tank when they dropped. I have a new tank now with a few guppies and have bought a breeder box. I'm hoping I can catch them in time because I'd love to have some more, I also have a pair of platys, mollys and sword tails. Your tip on the squared off look is a good tip. I'll keep an eye out. I'm hoping I get babies from the others too.
My guppy is pregnant, I thought she was about to give birth so I kept my eye on her until I realized she was pooping *sigh*
SAME
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same here! lol
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Same i was thinking it was a misscariage
My two guppies were heavily pregnant so I put them in a breeding tank, 2 days later and I came home today to 28 babies. ❤️
that is AWESOME
Wow so cute
Sounds like Inbreeding lesbianism 😋
Is it safe to leave 'any' fish in a breeding tank that long?. I was advised by my aquatics centre, only to leave fish in for a few hours!!.
@@MrVintagecyclist breeding box and a breeding tank are different things. Typically a breeding tank is a 10 gallon tank or more used specifically for breeding fish or housing pregant fish to keep them safe. A breeding box is a small box that hangs inside a tank to keep the pregnant fish and their babies once born safe for short periods of time
You keep looking back at these aquariums like you've stolen them 😉
Lmao rofl That hilarious
So annoying
same thing that bothered me watching the video
Remember when she’s getting ready to give birth her behaviour will change, she will stay lower to the ground, she will be contracting up to a few weeks before, it will look a little like spasms, when it’s closer to the time she will also look like ahead stander so her back will be up in the air and her head down, she may stay in place like this for a while and it’s likleu she may also go off her food
I have no idea if mines is pregnant but ive moved her awag from the other fish i own so if she does give birth i dont have to worry aboit the babies getting eaten
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The mother will also eat her fry, you Can also give al loth of hidingplace for the fry bcs seperating the mother gives a loth of stress. Bush On this way you cant save a loth of fry
@@gamer_tag3884 yeah i typed up stuff and it said like guppy gras moss balls and frog bit thank u tho
Gamer_tag yeah you need to feed it when it gets hungry or after food
@@KeepingFishSimple hy my guppies Gravid spot is orange is she pregnant
if he don't stop looking back at those guppies
I seperate when she is squared up and is at least 21 days into gestation. The average is 24 days but has gone as long as 30.
Thank you this was very helpful as I've owned several platys over the last last three years and I went to buys some guppies for the first time with the intention to breed them ( I got 1 male and 2 females) and as soon as I had released them into the tank I realised that the to females were already pregnant. Thankfully I already have a breeder box
Nice background lights 🖒
Can you link the LED cycling color seperate from the main tank light?
Best,informative video and advice seen/given,Thank You!!
Thank you so much
That helped a lot we have a guppie and we are keeping an eye on her.
I had a female guppy that developed dropsy and she became pregnant, she ended up dying a week after giving birth to the guppy fry, her fry are 2 months old now! Can dropsy be passed onto the guppy fry if the mother had it?
Hey KFS, what did you use to change the back light of the tank in this video?
I’ve had one molly and one guppy since they were very small, several months. Woke up two weeks ago and there were fry in my tank. I counted 4 at first but now there are only two. I was shocked to learn that my molly and guppy mated. The fry stay hidden for the most part at the bottom of my tank ( I have a nice amount of plants in my tank). Can’t wait until they are bigger so I can see what they will look like.
I bet they’re beautiful now how sweet
What do they look like?
@kia dent what do the babies look like
Hi. Any update?
What happens if you are in quarantine and you do not have a breeding box??
You can put them in a separate tank
Can you order one online?
Awesome video man! You covered a lot of great points here!
Thanks man!
I find it comical how he keeps looking at the tank every 3 seconds 🤣 aint gunna run off mate
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I always put the pregnant fish alone when i feel like her belly is half big because its really hard to know when would it get birth
You have some pretty guppies!!! I am in a live-bearers breeding sorta place and just wanted to know the last thing I needed, was when my females would be ready to give birth. Thanks for the tips! My females look like the will EXPLODE !!! I'll catch them to put I'm my breeding/hatchery box! Then I'll have guppy fry to take care of. Yay!
My guppie mum died yesterday because she was so heavily pregnant 😰
We started of with 6 guppies now we have 70 😊
Also I have some of the exact same guppies as you 😃
Mine has had that shape for the past few months but I'm not seeing any fry. Could it be they are dead and stuck inside?
So beautiful and useful informations 🤗 I love to see young people like me, to do videos about animals , thank you 😍
just wanna know if breeding wild betta and a halfmoon dumbo ear is possible?
My female is pregnant and I found 4 fry extremely early in my tank and I got the baby out but 1 of my serpae tetras at the last one so I’m waiting for the proper batch
I have 3 female guppy’s there all pregnant I put one of them in the breeding tank she has had 7 but she has stopped but she still looks pregnant and she is not finished how do I know when she is finished
Mine only had 9 I think it really depends
I’m new to tropical fish an just seen half a dozen baby’s in my tank , So I looked for advice an found your vid , I’ll look out for the squared look cheers 👍😁
I only have 3 fish in my tank and they don’t bother eachother, do I still need a breaker box?
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Yes and no. Yes because the mother will eat the babies. If you want 100% survival rate then yes but if you have plenty of hiding spots and your okay with losing some of the fry then no.
The breeder isn’t to stop other guppies from bothering each other it’s to stop the fry from being eaten so like the previous person said if you have lots of hiding places and are okay with losing a few babies leave them in the tank with the others otherwise separate the mom until she gives birth
Hey so I don't know if you will ever see this comment but I have a pregnant guppy that has given birth once to two babies and after that has been pregnant again for going on a month now I have isolated her in a different tank before and nothing came out of that so is it possible that the babies might be just "stuck" for lack of a better word
My dumbo Mosaic has not had baby since last three months....Her belly is very huge but she's not yet given birth. Can you please help me with this?
Thank you so much for this I’ve had guppies before when and it was so hard to determine when they were gonna give birth.
I now have a new aquarium with guppies and Now I know how to tell if they are about to give birth
I just got guppies, I don't have a breeder box so idk what to do with my prego fish. 3 of them look like they are about to pop but haven't yet. Will they give birth in the regular tank?
What if my guppy is quite big but there is no gravid spot??
Yay an Aussie. Thanks for the video. Just bought my first pair of guppies. Cichlid owner here. Looking forward to the proliferation of more guppies! Good tip. Squared off abdomen.
My 2 female guppies bred with endlers and one gave birth to 10 fry already but the second female has been squared off for almost a week now, and i can't tell when she with give birth. Im hoping its not a bad batch because of the hybridization. She's already isolated in a 10 gallon. Any tips?
I have a question, because im new to this? Do the females like, always die after birth!? Or is there ways to prevent that by keeping her in a birthing unit ? Unless shes sick of course?
I bought 3 male guppies and got sent 6 fish. 2 are females and i dont have a breeding tank.. wish me luck as i try to help them..
Hi, nice info, please guide me regarding guppies, as to why they die soon, I hv around 14 guppies, but daily one dies, please let me know how to take care of them
i think 2 of my guppies are pregnant but i'm not sure about the smaller one. i rescued a few 2 weeks ago and the girl didnt say. lol. i am looking for more tanks. where did you get the light behind your tank?
Hey, thank you so much for the informative videos! Very helpful!
So I have 3 females and a male one had babies we lost all but 1 as we didn't know they were pregnant now I have 2 pregnant females and one is on her own in a separate tank as I can see fry eyes on the belly of mama I was wondering if she is separate will I be able to save some babies ???
Hi Lisa, First, Congratulations! I would recommend you remove the female from the original tank with the male and females. The female guppy will feel safer and less stressed. If you can put the female in a small box with some plants in it so that the female won’t eat her own fry. If she looks thinner then take her out so she won’t eat the fry. I hope this helps!
Hi what the brand of your aquarium lights
After the video we checked and it seems our two females are both pregnant! We have a lot of plants for fry to hide, what if we leave them in the tank? We worry they might get weakened if we keep them separated for too long. We are just 2 months in the business in case you wonder about our ignorance :)
Yes just leave them in there and they will be fine! Make sure the parents eat plenty of food
Plenty of food was also our idea. thank you. we will try to remember to report the outcome when we know it (let's hope the pregnancy is not imaginary :)
Thank you for your advice. It seems we recognized the pregnancy 19 days in advance. So it was pretty early if pregnancies are just 30 days long. Our mom guppy delivered yesterday. One slow baby was instantly eaten by its daddy (less than 1 sec. after delivery). After a night of darkness, only 8-10 fry were in the tank. One of the unpregnant females was on a prowl and we took it away to a separate tank. A few hours later, we had 44 babies of which we took around 15 to a separate small tank. By the evening, there was no evidence of babies being eaten. We had lots of plants, strong light, heater on, and the filter on. The adults like to frolic in the filter stream, and the babies grouped above the leaves of hygrophila in a large school. We fed the adult more than usual 3-4 times in a single day. Now we are not sure if the strategy is right. The babies in the tank have stagnant and colder water, few plants and no entertainment. The babies in the fish tank are seemingly happy, like to swim in the water flow, stay in a group, are agile, and they are ready for the first night of darkness (no filter in the night). Which group do you think will do better? I worry that if I miss any feeding window for adults, they will discover a bonanza and the fry will have to fight for their lives. At the moment, we plan to watch babies grow, bring back the prowling female in a day or two (if she is ok on her own). And hope for early reunification in proportion to fry growth. Thank you again for spotting our pregnancy early ... we got time to prepare!!! :)
Peter BeginnerDad why are you keeping the fry in colder water? 1. these are tropical fish they like warm water 74 at the lowest 2. The warmer the water the faster they grow so if you’re trying to quickly grow them to a size where you no longer need to worry about them being eaten turn the temp up to 76-80 and feed lots of baby brine shrimp and cyclops
My guppies live with a pearl gourami, phantom tetras and neon tetras, do you think fi I seperate the mum from the rest of the guppies and the fish and if the fry live with the other fish, do you think they would get eaten? And also if I do seperate the fry from the tank, do they need a filter/air pump
I think you should buy or make a breeder box or set up a smaller tank for the guppy to give birth, then feed and grow the fry until they’re big enough to not fit into the mouth of the other fishes in your community tank
My guppys looks pregnant but its been 4 weeks I'm confused about that
Thanks for the tips my fish is about to give birth soon
Can u tell me what the sighs of a elder fish labour is like
cool info, thanks for reminding everyone of the basics
Can females pass away after too many pregnancies? I rather separate my females and males if that will happen. Both females have not become pregnant though they always run away which comes to my second question. Do females become too stressed if being chased constantly and can it cause them to die?
@JoybuzzahzTV LOL Yeah, who wants a Guppy when you can have a Molly?! lol :-)
Thank you for the info I had to remove 2 very pregnant females from the tank and put them into a feeder box, the males were harassing them. Then, they began to harrass each other...so, 2 breeder boxes. They were calm for a few now frantic up and down in the boxes, I guess this is go time!
Mine has a naturally black spot all over her abdomen but she's getting bigger like pregnant big. How can I know if she really is pregnant or if she's ready to give birth?
My guppy and I’m wondering why she’s hiding between the pebbles. Is that normal?
Put mine in breader box as she was squared of i turned the light, of and checked in her a hour later and she was dead and no babies have u any idea why this happened
breeder boxes can stress a fish out
Ok mate thanks i had a nother ine in a dif tank she gave birth to lots of fry but 2 days later she was dead, is this due to her giving birth
My tank is 11-12 gallons (54 Litres). I currently have 20 small guppies🥶 i dont know how im going to deal with the new borns when they come
How long does it take from start to finish?? I just spend two hours fishing up two babies from the back where the filter works. I’m not about to save anymore
Hey! Thanks for this video! Best video I’ve seen. I’m trying to breed my guppies and I have one lady who is pregnant but she gravid spot goes dark and then some days I can’t see it at all, I really want to catch her before she gives birth but i also don’t want to put her in the box to early! I’d love some help! Thanks claudia. X
I bought 3 females from a pet shop, I don’t have any males but I think they are very pregnant. They all have pretty big bodies and they all have pretty black gravid spots but their bellies aren’t square, they are just very circular. When do you think they will give birth?
Not sure
Wow. Just wow. Bro
Very informative video. Thank u..!!
Should the mother be moved back from the breeder box after the babies are out?
Yes or she will eat the Fry and be stressed
Can the fry be kept with another male/female guppies including the mother.
What is the orange fish name that is with your guppy?
This was very informative, thank you so much xxx
HELP! I have 3 pregnant guppies seperate from the rest and one is huge and the others aren’t any where near as big. How to I seperate them now?
How long are they pregnant for would help
Weird question can guppies be impregnated by minnows? Cause I have a wild caught guppy in a tank with minniows an it's gotten fat like its pregnant
No smh female guppies store sperm they do not need a male to give birth. If the conditions are right in the tank she will become pregnant and she can get pregnant many more times as well due to the fact that they store sperm. The gennady give birth 21 to 30 days. The minnows will eat the babies the mother could to have lots of hiding spots like plants and such. This is probably too late but wth for future reference now you know if you didnt find out.
Pretty cool its wild caught you will have some authentic guppies if you do decide to keep any babies. The ones sold in stores genetically speaking are prob mixed with all kinds of different types of guppies
Thanks, my guppy is definitely near giving birth. Had em for 2 weeks now. 1 male 2 females.
I just got endlers thanks for the help
I just got 3 female guppies and two males , today , the day after I got them, I found one of the females dead(they are in a ten gallon with my betta ,my betta isn’t usually aggressive and is acting fine now but he killed her )so now I have 2males and 2 females , one of which is pregnant from when I got her , so I dolnt know which type of guppy she bred with before I got her. I’m hoping for blue guppies but it’s not likely, as long as they look nice
Sarah Nefflen you might want to get a bigger tank or separate the beta
I literally have only 1 female guppy with 5 female gouramis and 2 tetras and then just a few days ago I found a baby fish I'm so confused can guppies give birth by themself or hold sperm from older fish I'm literally so confused how I have a baby fish
Hey keeping fish simple do you need to put aquarium salt in your tank ? Because i dont have any i want to know if its worth me buying it and not sure qhat its for
Not for guppy’s
Guppies are freshwater fish
Mine didn’t increase in size so I just assumed she wasn’t pregnant til one of my other fishes started chasing her round and I had to hurry and put her in a breeder box before they ate the fry. So far she’s only had one and it’s not moving and it’s probably been around 30mins. This is my first time keeping guppies so I’m not sure what to do at this point.
I have 2 heavily pregnant female guppies (sadly I have no timescale as they were already pregnant when bought from the aquarium shop),the largest has been swimming still with back arched and even twitching her tail so I put her in a breeding pod (like the one you showed but has a fry trap and a partition) after 3days still no fry so I put her back,it’s been 2days since I put her back and today I noticed both heavily pregnant females gravid spots (that were both black before) have now turned pink/red/brown kinda colour with black spots ,any idea what’s happening here please?
Please note I’ve just completed a fish-in cycle and my tank is currently in bacterial bloom and slightly cloudy (considering a 50% water change but don’t want to stress my pregnant females,so any advice given is appreciated.
Also,awesome video with great details,thank you so much!
My guppy has a boxy belly but always is hidding 98% of the time behind the water filter box thing and just stay there and barely moves I can't tell if she's sick or pregnant
Pregnany
Thank you! My guppy is looking square so hope all goes well, but you didnt go into what to do after the babies start to come out. Do I take her out? Etc...
Ilene Snyder-Lippincott mother guppies usually take a while, sometimes even up to an hour just giving birth, so it’s good if you notice her giving birth and leave her to it for a day, then remove her to avoid her eating her fry. But make sure where she’s giving birth,the fry has lots of hiding space to avoid being eaten. Hope this helps!
You can buy guppy or gold fish breeder tank, it floats inside your fish tank, just put the mum to be in there. When she has her baby’s they will go to the bottom of it through a false floor separated from the mother , they don’t get eaten that way, take mum out the next day and leave the baby’s in there till they get bigger. It’s very nice to see when you get the baby’s for the first time .
Ik this is a very late comment... I just watched the vid. 2 of my guppy’s were pregnant and 1 already gave birth to 13 babies. Some might’ve been eatin when they came out. My other guppy did not give birth yet but how do I tell when she is gonna give birth. I’d it normal for her body to get more color? She is getting some blue in her now.......
I have a swordtail female I think shes pregnant but not sure and a molly
I had 2 baby frys and one died how can I get my swordtails and mollies to breed
Hi I've been raising guppies for over two year's when I know when she about to give birth I put her in the box and she has her small fries my question is having the same fish in the tank I have all guppies raised from birth in the same tank there all drifrent sizes can they be to closely related can that affect there health
You're right, it all depends on their genetic diversity! Just like humans or any other animal,
a brother and sister, father/daughter, mother/son, whatever... mating can cause any number
of genetic problems, most probably sterility... but I'm not an expert, that's just common sense!
If you have a number of tanks with different families of Guppies, that would probably be your best bet! :-)
Every so often take out some of your guppies and add in some new guppies it’ll help to add new genetics to your tank. You can probably trade guppies with a local fish store or sell them for a credit
Can you breed a male guppy with a swordtail
Great video!! Thanks! Definitely subscribing!
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I have a guppy and she always stays at the bottom so I dont know if she is sick or in labor or ready to give birth while watching this Is know what to do Thankyou!!
What happens if you only have one tank and have 7 males and 1 female please tell me your video was awsome thanks so much i love your tank
She is gona be raped to death.
@@dimitris.4484 LMAO :-)
If I were you, I'd get another tank, specifically for breeding, and have the female in that one,
then transfer whichever male you want to mate with her from your display tank into that tank.
Once she's pregnant, transfer that male back into your display tank.
Buy more females
How long does a guppy remain pregnant
RealtroN About 21 to 30 days!
What if the frys are born in a tank with different kinds of fish
@@Bella-wh7yu oh I have lots of hiding places in my tank
I have a male and female guppy in a 16-17g planted tank and for some reason I see A fry but my female guppy doesn't have a gravid spot and a big stomach. There is no way the person who work in the pet store scooped it up because the male and female guppies are seperated. Can anybody explain how the fry got there?
The female could have given birth. They can store the males genetic material for up to a few months and impregnate themselves without any males present. So it mostly depends on how long the females had been separated, and how accurate the pet store was in sexing them.
Most pet stores order their fish from suppliers out of the country and when they’re shipped usually a male or 2 end up in the bag with the females. The babies were probably eaten depending on how much you’re feeding doesn’t matter how many hiding spots you have hungry guppies will hunt down the fry to eat them.
Thanks! I have 2 female guppies and hoping they get pregnant thanks again
thanks you helped me a lot dude
What if my female guppy is extremely big but the gravid spot isn't really dark
So I have a male n female guppy in a bowl (1week), the female is pregnant , so should I remove the male
Niveet Bandu the mom will eat the babies too if there’s no hiding spots for the fry
What if my guppy was pregnant than wasn't pregnant anymore like didnt give birth?? But def was squared off??
@ thanks I swear my guppies have been pregnant for awhile now but they are in tank with feeder goldfish and fancy tail gold's and 1 algae eater wondering if they are too stressed with these fish to have their babies
@ o man I forgot the kind someone told me the kind that will eventually need meat in their diet as the get older he's black and picks on my fancy tails
Megan Newland the babies are probably being eaten or the mom is aborting the fry. If she doesn’t think the environment is a good environment she’ll abort the fry.
I had guppies like years. This is the first time I've herd about the square mom
My female guppies give birth to 2 babies each 3 months. I don't know if it's considered being prestigious among guppies or not
She is probably giving birth to way more that are getting eaten. Mine births on average, 30 each month.
How long are they pregnant?
His tank is litteraly jellyfish jam with those colors
Very helpful tips thank you 😁👍🏻
You explain very well
help!!! my guppy is at the top nose up? and she sinks down
@Peyton Bellenie if fish had a bladder disease, the fish that has it wont be able to swim down
@Peyton Bellenie or it could be a bladder disease
I had gotten a bunch of guppies and mollies last Friday as a surprise gift but you could imagine my shock when the next day a molly and a guppy were giving birth at the same time. I was absolutely shocked since I had no idea they were pregnant... and sadly was not prepared enough so 2/3's of the babies had died in the process
It turns out that 4 of the 8 female I have are pregnant, just my luck ... as a first-time owner this is going to be tough so thanks for the video!
What size tank is that?
Ty for posting this!
I've bred guppies years ago, I only had guppies in the tank and used to just fish out the babies and put them in another tank when they dropped. I have a new tank now with a few guppies and have bought a breeder box. I'm hoping I can catch them in time because I'd love to have some more, I also have a pair of platys, mollys and sword tails. Your tip on the squared off look is a good tip. I'll keep an eye out. I'm hoping I get babies from the others too.
I m trying to breed guppy can u suggest some things