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06-19-2003, 12:25 AM
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| | Large Fish
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Canada
Posts: 880
| 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!
__________________ All creatures currently being owned:
Betta, Blue Paradise Fish, Cherry Barb, Endlers Livebearer, German Blue Rams, Guppy, Otocinclus, Red-Capped Oranda, White Cloud Mountain Minnow, Soft Shell Turtle
I REALLY have to start breeding more different species of fish.. |
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06-23-2003, 02:03 AM
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| | Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Riverbank, California
Posts: 134
| 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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06-28-2003, 12:15 AM
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| | Large Fish
Join Date: May 2003 Location: Canada
Posts: 880
| i hope so too! 
__________________ All creatures currently being owned:
Betta, Blue Paradise Fish, Cherry Barb, Endlers Livebearer, German Blue Rams, Guppy, Otocinclus, Red-Capped Oranda, White Cloud Mountain Minnow, Soft Shell Turtle
I REALLY have to start breeding more different species of fish.. |
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06-28-2003, 02:08 AM
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| | Medium Fish
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: San Diego California
Posts: 468
| 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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06-28-2003, 02:30 AM
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| | Super Fish
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: St. Paul, MN
Posts: 1,414
| 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.
Last edited by revfred; 06-28-2003 at 02:34 AM.
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06-29-2003, 10:02 PM
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| | Medium Fish
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: New Zealand
Posts: 367
| 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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06-29-2003, 10:50 PM
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| | Teenie Weenie Fish
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Phoenix, AZ--in other words, the surface of the sun (but at least it's not humid so, yay, I can breath AND do fancy things with my hair!)
Posts: 87
| 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.
__________________ 29G- 1 CAE, 2 clown loaches, 1 black skirt and 1 hi-fin white skirt tetra; in order- Skiddles, Peter and Pan (not a word, not a single word), Natasha(my mom's choice...he's male  ), and Nameless
Empty and sad looking- one 2G, one betta tank, and one 5G |
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06-29-2003, 10:51 PM
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| | Teenie Weenie Fish
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: NC
Posts: 89
| I feed my newborns smushed up flakes too, never had any die.
Shawn |
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07-01-2003, 12:42 AM
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| | Teenie Weenie Fish
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 36
| 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...
__________________ ~34 gallon (~130L) - 3x Angel Fish, 3x Silver Sharks (bala shark), 3x Black Widow Tetra |
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07-02-2003, 01:42 PM
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| | Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Chicago, Illinois
Posts: 229
| 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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