New_to_fish_world Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 I know that this may be not " cool or wow " to a non newbie but did a count in my nursery tank ...guppy young - from a couple of days old to nearly a month old... 72 :bounce: my wife & I are having a bet on how many fry before 1st Jan 2010 My guess..110 - 120 her guess..125 - 135 loser...buys dinner LOL you are doing well I must say I can't even count mine They won't stay still long enough. I have my 50 lt Set up for them as a bare bottom tank and also my 60 LT tank as babies to. As for your bet the wife will win. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_to_fish_world Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 I know that this may be not " cool or wow " to a non newbie but did a count in my nursery tank ...guppy young - from a couple of days old to nearly a month old... 72 :bounce: my wife & I are having a bet on how many fry before 1st Jan 2010 My guess..110 - 120 her guess..125 - 135 loser...buys dinner So who is winning.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxdarnixx Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 ive given up seperating my fry now,had too many guppy traps floating in the tank :roll: theyr all in with the adults and two bn to help clean the tank,none are getting eaten so i think i will carry on this way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_to_fish_world Posted December 19, 2009 Report Share Posted December 19, 2009 10 more platy babies I am waiting for another Mummy gup to drop now to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_to_fish_world Posted December 20, 2009 Report Share Posted December 20, 2009 39 Babies WOW I was shocked to come home and see them in the tray. 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxdarnixx Posted December 20, 2009 Report Share Posted December 20, 2009 omg!!!! was she huge beforehand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raewyna Posted December 20, 2009 Report Share Posted December 20, 2009 I long ago gave up separating fry in the guppies only tank. I found that when the tank had very few adults, they did eat the babies. But now that there's a community of all sizes and plenty of indian fern, the babies seem fine, although of course I don't know how many actually are eaten too. I think it's something to do with the movement - the total fish mass becomes 'one' so the predators don't see the individuals. Or something. That's how the schooling effect works in the wild I think. To illustrate: A while ago I needed to separate my angel pair and I put the female into the overflow guppy tank. The reason was to feed her up because she gets a bit down providing her mate with eggs to eat every week. So I thought time away from him was needed, and there was nothing special in that tank and I could handle her eating the smallest ones in the name of good quality live food. Well, I was flabbergasted to see that she hardly touched them. She watched and stalked some, but didn't seem to strike. One morning at feeding time I saw a baby right in front of her mouth and thought that one was going to be a goner, but she shoved it out of the way to get to the food behind it. Conversely, another time I put a few adult guppies into the angel tank and with just a few larger fish as tank mates, the angels ate any baby about 10 seconds after it was born. To me it seems to illustrate that the safety of babies depends on the whole tank dynamic rather than just the risk factor of individual fish. I wouldn't risk fish I wasn't prepared to lose trying these things though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_to_fish_world Posted December 20, 2009 Report Share Posted December 20, 2009 omg!!!! was she huge beforehand? Not that huge, I was thinking she still had a week or so to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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