Guppyrama

[tanidareal]

My fishies exploded... now I have 30 mini fishies.
28 grey ones, and 2 white/yellow ones.

If they weren't that terribly cute!! =)

Comments

[butterfly_mtn]

Congrats, mama! lol
I need some of those. My aquarium is empty. I have a 55 gallon tank with 4 fish.

Snowie

[skiehawk]

Great, and the first thing I thought about was the genetics theories behind the 28:2 ratio.

[jayoen]

Aww X3 I wish my fish had babies D: you have to post pics when you get the chance <3

Guppies are like rabbits

[furfoxmccloud]

Beware of the guppyforce! ;)

No seriously, guppies multiply verrrryyy fast. We had a big problem with out guppy population in our aquarium soon because they procreate that fast.

We solved that problem by having some platys in there who are predators and eat small guppies. But some got big enough to live and that worked like an ecosystem. And if too many of the miniguppies got eaten, we had a netlike cage where we could put in the small fishies to save 'em from the platy predators.

But okay, that was.... more than 16 years ago, I was 10 years old then. Today it sounds cruel to me to do that... dunno.

Re: Guppies are like rabbits

[furfoxmccloud]

Okay, I just read the article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guppy#Reproduction

It seems that even guppies eat their offspring. So if you want to keep some of the babies alive, it seems you need that thing we had called net breeder.

Oh, and the article has photos too. One of the small fishies! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Poecilia_reticulata_Fry_DSC04357_nevit.jpg

[dark_natasha]

I tried the guppy thing and could not handle the population growth. Looks like my galaxy rasboras are breeding with batches of 3 babies each time. ;)

My cherry shrimp are also out of control!

I still think you should get some of the dwarf crayfish for your tank