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Congrats Billaney!!! did you try my beef heart recipe?

if you keep guppies in a big community tank. you might end up losing some as the bigger might eat them as snack. sorry to hear tat

6 or more to keep them schooling and feeling secure.

give him some more females to keep him company!

Feed well to the livebearers. try variety of food to yield more frys. General up the protein yield more fries. platy and guppies will drop once in 28days to a month. record the dropping date, next drop will be around the same date next month!! hope this helps!

could be short of aeration problem. also, do you have lots of other fish ie bigger fish in the community tank? is the air current too high that them hard to swim around? sometimes guppies feel insecure and stay on top as a group. best to keep a guppies tank itself.

welcome to wellington from the wellingtonians

however there is blue coral platy instead

and you have collect 60 eggs today rite TEK? congrats!!!

great newsletter!! like it already!!!!

great info!! thanks for sharing!

thanks billaney, i bought the beef heart n liver tucker for $9.95 at animates. or you prepare yourself, the recipe is in livebearer section if you want to refer it. i have 5 females in the tank and feed them a little each time, so i can do more feedings each day. i just do random feeding for the food or particular other. nothing special just make sure all of them being feed well.

this female could have 40+ babies with no problem if feed right.

okiez....so what time you free tommorrow? TEK my fren wanna get some your killies.

aww...man....where did you get the doublesword strain from?

PENEJANE said: i kept a record on the drops date and fry amounts for each of my females. most female guppies will drop every month or 28 days. however this might not be case, some might hold back if you stress it too much with putting her into the breeding traps. so with my recording, i know exactly when the female were about to drop. thus you wont stress the fish and you yield maximum frys amount. if you think you have nothing wrong with the water conditions, it might just be the diet.. livebearers flake is ok with some tubifex in it. but i found feeding freeze dried tubifex small pack for $2.95 or get the large one for $14.95 (this will last you for ages!) so it wont empty your pocket. beef heart goes for about $9.95 in store. but it will last for while and i think it is really worthed get it. you can experiment see if noticed the difference. keep a record and dont miss the drops and your guppies will have more frys output in no time!! Wok said: i used abode photoshop...im a architectural designer you see.....ah~ :lol: Caryl said: yes Caryl, no problem there. you can use it or i can put into article no problem. im glad someone found my information useful, shows peoples appreciation in this forum! thanks for the daphnia you gave me...i'm in the breeding them proccess, hope i can get them breed and they will be my next experiment live food!! right now..i dont have enough just to feed the females. livebearer_breeder said: thanks Shae...i hope you can beat my record, dude.. . i heard peoples getting up to the 140s. personally i think fry amount is important because you then have more selective breeds when they grown up, but most important is that you want to breed good strain. dont have to ended up all 100s of unpure strains. BBS is good food the fry, but i personally think is too much a hassle with the aeration and harversting. feeding the fry with microworms is easy to culture and you will never run out with the food. im only concentrating on the guppies now mainly working on snakeskin/cobra. hopefully will be get some double swords soon and work on another strain from there. so..no room for your killies...sorry bro 8) 8)

Just to confirm the numbers are actually in the 100s.......see...i have counted them one by one....1,2,3,4,5...118!! um...not very impressed of writing this post at this time considering i have a presentation at 9.00am in the morning....Ah~ but whatever..i would do anything for the GUPPIES

I did a post once back in March, about how to yield more guppies frys. i wasnt satisfied with my big female guppies only having 20+ frys at that time. thus i have research on the info on how to yield more frys. factors that will influence the birth rates are water conditions, stress, diet, temperature, etc... i mainly experiment with DIET because i knew i havent try a variety of food on them. Heres some results i wanted to share. On 28/03/05 the female had 20+ fries (really dissapointed despite her size compared to others.) i was mainly feeding with livebearer flakes, micro pellet when i first started out. On 28/03/05 the female had 77 fries (excited!! it worked!) i have change the diet to livebearers flakes, micro pellet, freeze dried tubifex worms and freeze dried blood worms. On 26/05/05 the female had 118 fries (Satisfied at last! i have achieved my goal of hitting the numbers to the 100s) i have change the diet to freeze dried tubifex worms and freeze dried blood worms, Beef Heart n Liver Tucker, tropical Tucker and frozen blood worms i have noticed a significant Size gain and colour enchancement once started with with Beef Heart. the female is now huge and has shiny greenish scale body thus very healthy! i would recommend Beef Heart. if you want to put some SIZE on your guppies!!

allrite...i have joined up. i will participate to get the site going!!!

im interested. i would join like to join. can i know whats the benefit of joining? whats the cost of joining?

yea...im working on snakeskin and bottom sword at the moment. the babies just starting to show up their colours though.

Welcome Tek, im sure people here are happy to help out with any question you have. just keep those question coming!!

i have to get some of that water? is there a river or stream there? might check it out this weekend!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

well, what i do is turn off the lights, when the fish is "sleeping" get a digital camera and take as many shots as you can. and choose from there. Set your camera to micro mode for still object pictures. manually adjust them if you have to. fast shutter mode is good too. as fish tends to be so quick and move a lot....its a good idea to take pics of them when they are sleep and still. that way you can really get close and focus onto them. go to the fun section of this forum. i have setup a post regarding fish photography. other people has also post up their nice pictures to share!!

a baby platy about 1 month old.