Guppy Feeders

Paul Mannon · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 1

Does anyone have information on breeding feeder guppies or where to buy them
wholesale?

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Joe · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 1

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:57:28 -0800, "Paul Mannon" wrote:

>Does anyone have information on breeding feeder guppies or where to buy them
>wholesale?

Buy a pair and wait a couple of months, Smile

For anybody wanting to raise really healthy guppies, I did
an experiment in 1958 that resulted in about 48 guppies in the
best health I have seen. It also resulted in more than 20 pairs
reaching adult stage all in the same tank without carrying any
young, but later they dropped at least 5000 young in a 20 long
with ample floating plants (which I dipped out with a little plastic
cup placed next to them and then pushing the edge below the
surface).

I started trying to keep seahorses in an all glass tank,
but at that time, it was difficult and I failed twice.
So, since I had bought a pair of new (at that time),
large snakeskin (green), with decent sized tails, I got
the idea to try to acclimate guppies to seawater.
I put the batch of about 50 young in a small tank
filled with the water they were used to, and then took
out about 10 percent per day and replaced it with
sea water.
After about 6 or 7 days of this they looked fine,
so I felt I could put them in the salt tank already set
up and aged.

I turned the air pump up, and began putting a
small quantity of brine shrimp eggs right in the tank.
The fish fed almost constantly, and gained size
very fast. None died at all, but 2 jumped out of
the tank at different times over 6 months.

By then they were full grown, but no dark
spots on the females, and no apparent interest
in courting.

So that is when I slowly moved them back
into fresh water over a period of 6 or 8 days.

It took about 2 months before for the
females to look fat, and then they began dropping
young, 4 or 5 a day at first, then up to 100 a day
after another month or so.

I had not isolated the better specimens as
I should have done, but they were all of fairly
consistent color and tail size (being they were
all from the same litter).

I feel this information could be important
in selective breeding, and in raising healthy
guppies (and maybe mollies or other salt water
tolerant species).

I still love to watch the fish swim in a well
designed aquarium, especially show quality
guppies.

Joe Fischer

Mike D. · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 32

Did you state that you had the guppies fully transferred to marine water?
Mike.
"Joe" wrote in message@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:57:28 -0800, "Paul Mannon"
wrote:
>
> >Does anyone have information on breeding feeder guppies or where to buy
them
> >wholesale?
>
> Buy a pair and wait a couple of months, Smile

>
> For anybody wanting to raise really healthy guppies, I did
> an experiment in 1958 that resulted in about 48 guppies in the
> best health I have seen. It also resulted in more than 20 pairs
> reaching adult stage all in the same tank without carrying any
> young, but later they dropped at least 5000 young in a 20 long
> with ample floating plants (which I dipped out with a little plastic
> cup placed next to them and then pushing the edge below the
> surface).
>
> I started trying to keep seahorses in an all glass tank,
> but at that time, it was difficult and I failed twice.
> So, since I had bought a pair of new (at that time),
> large snakeskin (green), with decent sized tails, I got
> the idea to try to acclimate guppies to seawater.
> I put the batch of about 50 young in a small tank
> filled with the water they were used to, and then took
> out about 10 percent per day and replaced it with
> sea water.
> After about 6 or 7 days of this they looked fine,
> so I felt I could put them in the salt tank already set
> up and aged.
>
> I turned the air pump up, and began putting a
> small quantity of brine shrimp eggs right in the tank.
> The fish fed almost constantly, and gained size
> very fast. None died at all, but 2 jumped out of
> the tank at different times over 6 months.
>
> By then they were full grown, but no dark
> spots on the females, and no apparent interest
> in courting.
>
> So that is when I slowly moved them back
> into fresh water over a period of 6 or 8 days.
>
> It took about 2 months before for the
> females to look fat, and then they began dropping
> young, 4 or 5 a day at first, then up to 100 a day
> after another month or so.
>
> I had not isolated the better specimens as
> I should have done, but they were all of fairly
> consistent color and tail size (being they were
> all from the same litter).
>
> I feel this information could be important
> in selective breeding, and in raising healthy
> guppies (and maybe mollies or other salt water
> tolerant species).
>
> I still love to watch the fish swim in a well
> designed aquarium, especially show quality
> guppies.
>
> Joe Fischer
>