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Old 06-19-2003, 12:25 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default YES! FINALLY! SUCCESSION! MY GUPPIES FINALLY MATED!

but due to exams....i didnt give em any attention and the PLANTS rescued 4 and the tiny gap to water heater and water oxygen flow thingy (DANGEROUS MECHANICAL AREA!!!!) saved 3. So now I'm happily stuck with 7 newly borns as I study for my exams for tomorow @ 12:30 midnight...I just might go crazy....lmao, JK!!!! fish are my life, cant get ride of my life!
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Old 06-23-2003, 02:03 AM   #2 (permalink)
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haha betcha want my screen name dont ya, j/k... congrats, just got some guppies today, maybe ill have some babies swimmin around in my tank after a while
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Old 06-28-2003, 12:15 AM   #3 (permalink)
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i hope so too!
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Old 06-28-2003, 02:08 AM   #4 (permalink)
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get them some frozen Baby brine shrimp (or better yet.. live). otherwise most of them will die before they become adults.

Congrats!!! baby fish are always exciting!!
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If you can't get brine shrimp right away, hardboil and egg, take the yolk, "liquefy" it with some water, and put some in the area where they babies are ... Oh yeah! Congratulations.

You might want to invest in a V-type breeder that hangs in the inside of the tank ... get the kind where the water flows through. They aren't very expensive.

When the female gets big and dark, put her in there . . . when the babies are born, they drop through the slot in the V . . . mama stays on top so she can't eat the babies. This is a good set-up instead of watching the tank all the time.

Then you can take mama out, put her back in the main tank, take the V insert out and keep the kids in the breeder tank for a while until they get a bit bigger.

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I never give my live bearer babies any special diet - they start eating flake start away and i've never had a problem with them dying...
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Congrats on the babies! As you can see in my sig, I myself have 22--but I had a breeding trap so that makes a big difference. I've only ever given my fry crushed flakes(I've had a couple before this batch) and they were fine.
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I feed my newborns smushed up flakes too, never had any die.
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i just go for the freeze dried blood worms, grind them up and the fry love them, well the 1 that is left any way, all the others get eaten by the mummy guppy... canibals i tell ya...
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Old 07-02-2003, 01:42 PM   #10 (permalink)
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yeah, i never have any issues with babies dying, yet, and it's been a few days now. i feed them either crushed up flakes, or sometimes these really small pellets.
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