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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 …
ohn Rundle has some advice on breeding the Ram, Mikrogeophagus ramirezi. Copyright © Practical Fishkeeping When visiting a new fish shop in my area my attention was drawn to a tank of fish that were shining like brightly coloured butterflies. Mikrogeophagus ramirezi, commonly known as the Ram or the Butterfly cichlid, comes from Venezuela and [...]