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Breeding tropical fish can be a lot of fun. Try your luck atbreeding livebearers such as guppies or swordtails. Equipment Needed: Breeder Box or Breeder NetBreeding Grass 5 or 10 gallon tank for the baby fish or a tank divider that you can use for your main tank. A pair – 1 female and 1 male, 2 females to [...]
Breeding guppies is easy to do, and it’s also very enjoyable. Once you start breeding guppies you can sell them to fish stores, or even to pet shops that sell live bait, or give them away to friends and family. To get started you need two aquariums, two 10 gallon tanks will do just fine. [...]
Swimming chuaNhung beginners often feel frustration when people heard the fish used to swimming complex systems with more than 200 tanks. But you do not need so many tanks can feed the beautiful guppy comment. 10 gallon tank capacity is most commonly used, but mainly depends on the space you are. In fact, if you [...]
Guppies require digestible protein in a range of 35-47%. If you look at the list of ingredients of most fish foods, you will see that the protein level in the food is much higher (50 – 60% or higher). Some enthusiastic hobbyists also tend to food very rich food. I used to feed female guppies [...]
The reason to use a breeding trap is to avoid the female eating the babies (fry) when they are first born. But if the trap is not in a separate tank the other fish may eat them anyway. So, what I do is to float plastic plants on the surface where the …
Female Guppy abdomens have a dark spot, called the gravid spot, at the rear of the female’s abdomen. The color is caused by the baby guppies (actually their eyes) showing through their mother’s skin. The darker the spot the closer the babies are to birth. Source: breeding-guppies
Right I’m not going to waffle on with all the scientific jargon that some sites do because you really don’t need it with guppies because they really are so easy to breed but here are the things that you should know. You tanks water temperature should be between …
Breeding guppies in the community tanks can be great fun and very exciting as you just never know the colouration you will be from the mixed breeding which is great fun because you do get some really nice colours and combinations. The down side to breeding guppies in …
Breeding guppies in their own tank is a very nice way to go about breeding them, you have a lot more control over the conditions that they are bred in. You can also control the parents, selecting the colouration of male or female of your choice of which …
Those of you who know me know that I have 3 Bettas and have nearly 24/7 with them. They are members of my family, my children in a funny kind of way. They challenge me, they make me laugh and there have been times when they have been the cause of great distress in my [...]