The plants will give them cover for one-two weeks, until they will be big and strong enough to get away from the adults. Live plants such as guppy grass, hornworts, java moss, or the roots of water lettuce can increase the survival rate of guppy babies a lot. You can also save your fry by providing them with hiding places.After the female finishes giving birth, you will extract her from the box and only fry will remain. The breeding box is designed in a fashion that the water will flow through, but the fry will stay in the box. The good thing about this method is that you don’t have to worry about the water quality of the container. A breeding box is a small mesh or plastic container, which you can insert into your fish tank. If you don’t have the possibility to keep the female separated, you can purchase a breeding box.Extract the female from your main tank, only when she starts giving birth. If you don’t have a separate tank, you can use a bigger glass jar or plastic container to separate the pregnant female from the rest of the adults.Here is couple of methods that you can use to save your guppy fry: That is fine, because you can still save your fry. Not everyone has separate aquariums for breeding fish. If you don’t have a separate breeding tank, where you put your pregnant female to drop the fry, chances are that your guppy fry will not survive. Often, baby guppies are getting eaten by their parents and other aquarium fish. A few hours after birth they are already lurking around and searching for food. At the beginning the fry is inactive and deformed. The guppy fry starts swimming right away, and will try to find a hiding place in the aquarium. The guppy mom can be in labor for a couple of hours (sometimes a couple of days), before the fry are born. Usually, the female guppy will hide, when she is ready to drop the fry. They usually give birth once every 30 days, until they become 2-2.5 years old. The female guppy gives birth to 20-60 fry at a time. Guppies are livebearers, which means, they give birth to live fry. Guppies become sexually mature at around 4-6 months. In this article I will guide you through the process of raising your guppy fry. You can take care of guppy fry very easily, if you know what to do. Baby guppies are left by their parents, often they are even eaten by the adults.
They reproduce very easy, however they do not take care of their fry. Guppies are a fun fish to keep and breed.
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