Hey guys i had a brain fart yesterday whilst i was
at the my LFS they had a sale on guppys 4 for $10
so i grabbed 4 males 4 females put them in my 2ft
and i am now breeding my own feeders i know they breed
like rabbits so good source of free food and a bit of
exictment for the miss's
smart thinking?

Ive done exactly the same, accept ive got a different ratio to you. I got 3 females to every male and got 3 males. Only been set up about a week and already got some babies. Only 6 tho but im sure i'll get more when they settle in more.

We tried to get oscar and the gar live feeders, only to have an aditional fish in it. The longest who survived what Hercules. stayed uneaten for almost 4 weeks!!

my sister in law wanted to see my O eat on so i put 1 male in so its now 3 male
to 4 female WOW thats a long time for a feeder to survive =]

Benno...get more females, they are not monogomous like our oscies and don't be dissapointed if it does not go according to plan...I have been breeding guppies for longer than I have been breeding Oscars and I have had alot more sucess with the Oscars. Guppies are live bearers and the adults eat the babies right away. You can put them into breader nets when the females gravid spot is really dark but if you put her in too early and she gets spooked she can deliver premmys who either wont survive or are so small they go out of the breeder net and their dad eats them..also they can always swim back up the breeder net to mum...who will eat them. I have a tank set up with a sponge filter and heaps of silk plants on the bottom for the babies to hide in when they are born. I average around 2 or 3 survivors from each batch, but I get a batch from each female every month, so my numbers are steadily climbing, but even so, if I put them all in with my big O's, a years worth of breeding would be gone in a day!

Go back and get some more females who have fat bellies with really dark spots near their little poo holes - that is the gravid spot - the uterus, and the fatter and darker the closer to delivering - so if you are smart you can buy many fish for the price of one!!

Good Luck!

thanks shazz i did a bit of reading last nyt on net
found out a few ways to do it but it sounds like i need
a bit of luck with this i bought a floting breeder box so i just
put her in there when i see her getting bigger i hope i have a
few come threw =]

I am sure you will have some lovely little guppies...and you will watch them grow each day...and you will not have the heart to watch them get crunched in a microsecond!!! Good Luck...Shazzzzzzzzzzzzzz

oh i am sure i will love to see em get munched
just coz my O loves chassing them =]

hope they breed lots of babies for you O to eat. be careful not to get too attached to your guppies. you may not want to feed them to your O because you love them too much.

They r 2 small for me to get attached o watched my O
Swallow a guppy when he opened his mouth to swallow
Breath or suck water in the guppy bailed out f his mouth
So my O got him again

cebosound wrote:

x2, so that means i got 2 guppy tanks...

x2 i will have a 3ft soon with guppys breeding =]