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i am breeding my female gupp and she has been with some males for a couple of days and i think is getting fatter when should i remove her to the birthing tank? i have heard of some preety grusum things happening to gupps giving birth and the other gupps ripped the young strait from her!!

20 Days is the minimum gestation period I have witnessed.

Attacking the female is NOT common, so I wouldnt worry about that.

Her belly will be shaped like the bottom of a bathtub before she is ready to give birth.

I would say leave her where she is until she starts to looked stressed out or if you do move her, move another female with her so she wont be lonely.

Be Patient its going to be awhile....

Are you breeding the Guppies for the Oscar?, or just to have bunches of Guppies?

well i will give some to him, i will sell some and i will keep some, but if i sell them my brother has a friend that feeds BETTAS TO HIS SCORPION FISH!!!!!! so im hopeing i can trade his bettas for the gupps and i will try to get the bettas i rescued to good homes, and im not saying that bettas are better than gupps im just saying what a waist of money and beauty

i hate hearing that bettas are being used to feed other fish but i guess that is life. I have many of the wild strain of guppies that my grandfather has been keeping and breeding for about 50- years and they have been strong. I keep all of my guppies in one tank and pick out a pair or two and put them in a five to ten gallon tank bear no gravel with some plants like one of two nonbushy ones and they have babies. I haven't noticed the guppies eatting the babies so u don't have to worrie.

All of my guppies have been cannibalistic to their young...is this normal?
*I have been keeping guppies for three years now*
Brandi

i am breeding my female gupp and she has been
with some males for a couple of days

you have the ratio wrong
you should have 1 male and several females instead of
the other way around!!!

is this the first time she has encountered a male? if no,
then she probably already got pregnant by other males.

for a breeding tank, i recommend a 10 gallon heavily
planted, it will provide the frys with plenty of hiding
places, and you don't have to move them to a grow out
tank later on.

All of my guppies have been cannibalistic to their young...is this normal?

Yes, but some more so than others. I've had guppies eat entire batches of fry, and others who are surrounded by them and don't even try to get them. One little fry sat right on his mother's head, right between her eyes, and she didn't budge. It was the cutest thing

Aw...I always move my girl about to give birth to a one gallon, let her get it done and then get her out of there. Usually she's too tired to chase the babies rigbht after, that way I don't have a problem, but she always, always, always, gets one or two that swim by her. Maybe it helps keep up her strength LoL
Brandi

k heres what happened i bought the last healthy male and female, had them together for a while then the female kicked the bucket so i put a half blind female betta in there to keep him company. then later i went out to get two female gupps, i saw that some females were in with the males so i got them, when i got home i realized 1 was male and 1 was female stupid fishy catcher grabbed the wrong one but o well he is orange and very cute, but now she is with the orange male in a pond and i took tiger out and now he is with a single mountian minnow fry, he has never attempted to eat it so i feel confident that when i bring her back for birthing the fry will be fine. and funny thing is that the fry was on death row for oscar but he stole my heart and now he gets to live 'for now'

i have been breeding guppies for a long time now, almost 10 years. I would say be careful with females and breeding, most of the time i have several females ready to produce so they go into a breeder designed to hold 2-4 fish, it seems that when the fry are born the other females eat the fry. When this happens i have also noticed male guppies litterally jumping into the breeders for the fry. As a side note, it appears that colder water produces more females than males, for 2 years now we have had both warm and cold water guppie tanks set up in the living room and every drop in the warm seems to produce roughly 70% males where as the cold water produces close to 90% females.
another slight ramble, i find guppies to be the best fish to own as majority of the guppies i have now are decendants of the orrigionals we started with, we introduce a new pair every few months and swap with my grandfathers 4 guppie tanks to prevent any problems.

That's very interesting Ed. I have have been wondering if that worked the same with the Endler's Livebearer as well. In fact alot of people have questioned it, but some don't really believe it is true. I'm glad you brought that up. I'll discusss it with the folks at endlerlivebearer.com & .net.