How to breed guppy's?

[MrCoffinHXC]

I was thinking about breeding guppy's how do I do so? and can they cross breed?

[Northernguy]

Add water!lol
You need 1 male and 3 females.He will have a great time and in a few months you will need another larger tank.

[Irish2539]

Yeah,, Northenguy said it all really!! add water!

If there is only guppies in the tank (or any larger fish) you can leave the fry in there... make sure you have some hiding places for them..

Goodluck

[gm72]

I was thinking about breeding guppy's how do I do so? and can they cross breed?

As stated before, just add water, female, and male to a cycled tank and you'll be set. Most of the females you buy anyway are already pregnant.

Question: Can they cross breed with what?

[Irish2539]

and can they cross breed?

I think MrCoffinHXC means with other variants of guppy... Yeah all guppy can breed with guppy's... U can end up with some interesting mix's...

[MChambers]

How do you keep them from breeding? :ssmile:

Seriously, you'll need a plan, or your aquarium will be overrun. I keep my females on one tank and males in another, and introduce a male to the female tank when I want more fry.

[rich311k]

Read up on it. To selectivly breed and get certain strains takes some work and you will need several tanks.

[Bristley]

How do you keep them from breeding? :ssmile:


If you want to prevent breeding then only get males. Keeping males and females in seperate tanks will also work with the exception that sometimes when you buy a female she's pre-loaded.

[MrCoffinHXC]

I mean other species of fish not just guppy's? I heard it is true Just checking up on it

[Lady Hobbs]

If you want to have lots of guppies, you should keep them in a tank alone and feed those you don't want to other fish in another tank to keep your population down. If you have other fish in with the guppies, they will be lunch for the others.

[MrCoffinHXC]

So they cant breed with other species?

[Bristley]

I personally don't know the correct answer to that question, but I would imagine that unless you were a genetic engineer who played around with some gene altering, trying to breed guppies with another species of fish would be like trying to breed a german shephard with a sea turtle. Again I don't know so this is only speculation.

[Lady Hobbs]

Nope. You will not have gupp-lees. (Platies and guppies.) LOL

[Northernguy]

The only other fish I have seen come from guppies is Endlers.
I have a ton of them and the only livebearers that were ever in that tank were guppies.

[Irish2539]

You can make molly/ guppy hybrids.... people call them gollies or muppies haha
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[raulfd4]

What about swordtails and mollys/platies/guppies? I thought that the livebearers were able to make babies with each other more easily.

:ariel:

[tanks4thememories]

You can make molly/ guppy hybrids.... people call them gollies or muppies haha
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WOW!!thumbs2: thumbs2:

[Northernguy]

That link is different!
They have bred platy with guppy but they are not able to reproduce.
I think I will stick with the pure strain idea.

[Yourkisa]

I must of overdone it then, I added water AND freeze dried bloodworms.

I do have mollys and red mm platty's in the same tank and dont have any mixes out of the first two spawnings.

I have found that i have had a silver molly birth some fry that have been decidely darker in colour, and there are some black mollys in the tank that are looking pleased with themselves . . . going to end up with some silver and black spotted fish at this rate !

[Northernguy]

That sounds like a nice mix!

[LittlePrince]

Note about breeding guppies: I recently purchased a female that was already pregnant. Only four fry came out of that batch. I transferred them to my breeding tank so that they wouldn't get eaten or be starved by the other fish in the tank (I have more than just guppies). I ran into the problem of what to feed the fry, though.

They say not to feed them for the first day and then to feed them as often as possible without over feeding them. However, WHAT do you feed them??? I tried soem frozen daphnia but that was too big for the fry. Unless you have access to baby brine shrimp or some other live food that is smaller than daphnia I would suggest getting Hikari Tropical First Bites. My tiny little fry (Endler's and Fancy guppies) seem to be doing just fine on the First Bites.

As a last resort you can crush some flake food and they will eat that but it won't be sufficient for them during the growing process.

I'm pretty new to this so feel free to verify but that is what I have learned from extensive research and personal experience.

Good luck and I hope you have at least two or three tanks if you are really serious about breeding.

P.S. I suggest putting some medium sized snails or shrimp in the tank to clean up anything the little guys don't eat until you figure out just how much to feed them exactly.

[LittlePrince]

One more thing... I recommend using a sponge filter and/or a small power filter with an Aqua Clear sponge tucked over the intake tube so that the fry don't get sucked into the filter. Don't get too strong of a filter if you do use a power filter because the little guys won't like so much current unless you have tons of plant coverage for them to hide in.