Baby Guppies!

[Karen Garza]

I was looking at the two snails in my 20 G and I noticed a tiny fish
behind the powerhead! I looked around and found another one. I thought
my Guppy was pregnant but yesterday I had noticed that she looked
slimmer and her gravid spot smaller. I couldn't find any babies so I
just figured that if she had babies they must have gotten eaten by the
other fish.
I put the babies in a breeding net so they won't get eaten. What should
I feed them?

Karen

[Keith J.]

Baby guppies are large enough to eat finely crushed flake food. They also
like brine shrimp, but the shrimp aren't really necessary.

Keith J.

"Karen Garza" > wrote in message
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> I was looking at the two snails in my 20 G and I noticed a tiny fish
> behind the powerhead! I looked around and found another one. I thought
> my Guppy was pregnant but yesterday I had noticed that she looked
> slimmer and her gravid spot smaller. I couldn't find any babies so I
> just figured that if she had babies they must have gotten eaten by the
> other fish.
> I put the babies in a breeding net so they won't get eaten. What should
> I feed them?
>
> Karen
>

[Karen Garza]

Okay thanks :-) I have both flakes and frozen brine shrimp. Is frozen
okay? Maybe I should just stick to the flakes.
I found four babies so far. I think that's all of them.

Karen

Keith J. wrote:
> Baby guppies are large enough to eat finely crushed flake food. They also
> like brine shrimp, but the shrimp aren't really necessary.
>
> Keith J.

[coelacanth]

"Keith J." > wrote in
message ...
> Baby guppies are large enough to eat finely crushed flake food. They also
> like brine shrimp, but the shrimp aren't really necessary.
>
> Keith J.
>
Yeah, but they seem to grow much, much faster on a
diet of frozen baby brine shrimp and flake, IME.

-coelacanth

[Karen Garza]

> Yeah, but they seem to grow much, much faster on a
> diet of frozen baby brine shrimp and flake, IME.
>
> -coelacanth

Okay, I have both frozen brine shrimp and flakes on hand. Does it need
to be *baby* brine shrimp? Should I alternate each day feeding the
frozen brine shrimp one day and the flakes the next day?
I noticed that one of the babies (there are now five) is a peach color
and the others are all greyish. Is this an indication of thier sex?
Which is which?
Thanks

Karen

[lonerider]

Hi,
I bought one of these shrimpery kits, it's inexpensive,simple and fun. You
just mix one of the packets with water. The cup on top is like a clear
plastic pill bottle that has a snap top and a tiny hole for the newly
hatched shrimp to swim through. In about 24 hrs they hatch and fill the pill
bottle. You just lift it off and pour it in the tank every few hrs. for
about 3 days till they stop hatching. The pill bottle has fresh water in it
that is lighter than the salt water mix so they stay separated. The fry and
adults love em. They are sold in several places and so are the extra
packets.

Larry

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