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After years of nothing, zilch, nada, I have had a birth in one of my tanks. Ive tried with more difficult species and had no success so I decided to buy a few guppies and put them in a community tank. Voila, a pregnant guppy gave birth to them and they are about 2 days old right now.

Ive been feeding them liquid fry food I bought at the store, the question now is, when can I start them on a little crushed powdered flakes and when are brine shrimp alright for them?

Thanks.

A proud papa.

i havent actually raised guppy fry but a single platy fry i have (was the only one i found and it survived the wreckage that i put it through) i would say just leave them be... feed a little extra. they will feed on whatever they find.. if you have them in a separate tank or a breeder box/net you can feed them liquid fry food for a few weeks or you could put some warm warter and some flakes into a bowl or cup or jar.. mix and eye dropper or spoon it in (eye dropper is much bettter a syringe with out the needle could also work...) keep that mixture cold to preserve it longer and that is also a great food... use this instead of liquid fry to save ... and you use it longer then you can try a crushed flake or two in about 2-3 weeks i would say but growth rate will tell you when they are ready to take the cruushed flakes... once they reace about 3cm then i would say they are ready...

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They can eat crushed flakes right away if they're crushed finely enough (advantage of being livebearers - at least mine have taken crushed flakes the first day I saw them), baby brine shrimp are ok too. It'll take them a while longer before they can eat the adult brine shrimp.

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Yep just plain old crushed flakes. What they can't eat directly will settle in the plants and they will hide in there and pick at it.

It is that long since I had guppy fry it is hard to remember. But what I do know is to have plenty of floating plants. Just put a small amount of good flake food into a small empty food container shake it up well and instant fine flakes.
Put a very small amount at a time and they will eat it very quickly as it stays in the floating plant and any that slips through the bigger guppies eat.

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