How Easy is Guppy Breeding? | 30 Day Experiment

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[burakcetav]

Albio guppy breeder here. I want to add some suggestions. Baby guppies tend to hang around at the surface of the tank first before they go down. You will lose many fry if you have a bare top without plants and cover. Floating plants like pistia stratiotes and hornworth are ideal for fry. They will stay close to the plant without the adults even seeing them or coming near them. You also need plants to cover the mid section and bottom of the tank for the fry. They will stay close to the plants and come out slowly as they age. I just farmed about 150 baby albino guppies in 1 month from my breeding group. Also you need to keep the adult fed at all times. So you feed them atleast 5/6 times a day to keep them happy and keep the fry alive. Eventually they will ignore the fry completely.

[SpeikobraRote]

Usually you dont put the hiding spots at the bottom but at the top. the females usually give birth more at the top and if the baby has to swim all the way down to hide.. of course its going to get eaten before it can hide :) Guppygras is the key. put alot of guppygras in and the results will be better.

[leihilton]

I have heavily planted tanks and I still remove fry the second I see them, hunt out the rest and I've even spent hours waiting and watching the girls give birth so I can catch them bc I've found no matter how many hiding spots you give them, the adults will eat anything that moves that can fit in their mouths. I put the fry in my shrimp tanks to grow them out, its the only thing that's worked for me to get maximum saves

[redfaux]

When I was young my mother loved guppies. And mini catfish.
She would cry when the adult guppies would eat their babies. She tried the floating nets to separate guppies and plastic mini floating tanks with a removable 'V' shape in the bottom with just enough of a crack the babies would sink and momma guppy couldn't get to them fast enough (most of the time). But this still bothered my mother as many would still be eaten.
So she had several tanks and separated mother guppies when they became dark gravid. This satisfied my mother because she could fill the tank with leafy plastic plants for the babies to immediately hide. It wasn't very long and we had several hundred guppies. So many beautiful colors. My mother is gone but I still love them to this day.

[leafystreet]

Im not much of a fish guy, but the amount of variety is sick. really cool to see

[hjc]

It was such an honour to come to your store and meet you yesterday. The quality of your fish are seriously next level. I especially liked your blue grass guppy. Will definitely be back for a ram :)

[abhishekdatta]

Guppies prefer living and feeding near the surface, and so do their babies. Rather than a spawning mop, floating plants would have been better hiding places for the newborn. In my experience, Hornworth, Cabomba and Guppy Grass are the best options. Also, roots of floating plants like Water Lettuce provide very good cover to small fry.

[Dylamos]

Guppies are amazing and easy to breed, I highly reccomend getting an autofeeder to keep the females healthy and constantly churning out babies. Also LOTS of nice plants for cover will make your population explode. Wisteria, guppy grass, and similar plants are a good type of plant to keep the fry safe.

[Mostaism]

For under $20, you can head down to Petbarn and grab an isolation floater. When you notice the females becoming gravid, you pop them in. It gives the fry somewhere safe to get to a size they won't be eaten. Great way to build up population

[australianbiotopes]

I almost missed this video, one of my favourite little fish, my favourite thing with these is experimenting with different strains and creating your own, I found the best way in a smaller tank like this is to divide the tank or make plastic mesh baskets and fill them with plants, the females know to drop next to them and the young will scoot for cover as a natural instinct, another good way is to load the tank with finer leaf plants Ambulia or Guppy Grass but the females are pretty smart and can still hunt them down so the mesh has been the best for me in the past, another great video Nick.

[talonsfishshrimpchannel]

Ngl, my dream is to have a shop like yours one day ! Keep up the good work and thank you for being great!

[tonydeleeuw]

I love when you do these kinds over time experimental grow out videos. So awesome man, thanks!

[pbpretzel]

Just received a bag of your Bug buffet food and wow. What amazing stuff. All the fish get their share of food and honestly I have never seen them happier. Thankyou so much 😊😊

[ronlafond]

I like hornwort as fast-growing cover as well. As a floater or planted. Once again, great stuff, Nick. Thanks for the share.

[doomsdayadams]

I had a trio of galaxy guppies (2 female, one male) in a community tank for several months. Last week I put them in an outdoor porch pond. Within three days of removing them from the threat od all possible fry-eaters, they exploded a huge batch of babies!

[earthangelavatar]

Hey Nick, I hope you had a nice vacation, and congratulations on the Bug Buffet!!

[ameliasmallbones]

I love this guy Man he has his own Fishtank shop he has his own breathing set up and he thought of spawn Mark would make a hiding space for loads of pairs of guppies I’m so happy you’re doing well mate but you do make me laugh ha ha ha ha😂

[reslider]

I've had excellent luck with various size marbles on the bottom of the tank. It only takes about 2 layers and allowed plenty of hiding places and escapes routes and the parents couldn't get down in there. Then the babies had plenty of food that got down in there with time to eat it with no predation. The best luck I've had is just watching the tank every day or two and separating out the females that look like they were about to burst. They birthed in a floating net cage with a bottom of plastic grass plants, cheap and I usually had15-20 babies make it to adulthood.

[toyboi]

Great videos and he explains it in a way even novices can understand. Well done!

[jacquesx]

Hi Nick
Lots of Java Mos and Guppy Grass will fix the baby predation.