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[font color="#008000"]They are cheap also. I think some of them are very colorful.[/font]



[span class="edited"][Edited by Anti Fishman 2004-08-01 22:19][/span]

So this thread is basically about Endlers i take it? I have some and they are a lot of fun!!! Breed like crazy...so i got some more of them to add to the gene pool.. so they wouldnt get so inbred. I also think i picked up some hybrids.. fancy guppy crossed w/endlers. very colorful tails.. but the body of an endler...i even have some males that have swords on their tails! Cool huh!

72 gallon bowfront:Tanganyikan Lake set up
75 gallon: A. Baenschi trio,Cyanotilapia Afra Cobwe(4), copadichromis trewavase, protomelas sp. tangerine tiger(breeding pair)

I have one feeder/wild guppy, he was a bonus I found in the bag when I bought some kuhlis. Very hardy little guy and it's funny to watch him chase the females who are at least twice his size

This isn't a good picture because he was in a bowl acclimating until I could identify him, but it gives a good idea of his coloring:


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I wonder where I could get some of the wild guppies in my area. I've seen pictures of them, and really enjoy my fancy guppies, and their fry are are colorless, literally clear when born, and then turn a grayish...I love watching my fancies "get their colors". It really is fun, check them in the morning, then evening, and sometimes in that little bit of time they will have developed their coloring ...I myself think I'll look closer to the fry that a lot of the lfs end up with, and see how much they would want for them...Got an empty 20 why not, right? Heidi

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Agreed with most here....'feeder' guppies are just wild-type guppies, and make excellent pets as well as decent feeders....I know a couple of serious aquarists that have 3-4 tanks dedicated to wild-type guppies.

cheap , colorfull(males), hardy, reproduce easily, don't need a big tank.It's really fun when u look at your tank and u find out you have feeder guppy fries.Very fun to see them grow. Good Beginner fish!

colorless really most of the babies at my lfs are yellow with faint stripes.

Most of the babies I get are colourless, the nice ones get placed in the display tank while the others are placed in my friends pond at the back of this place. He just has a pond full of guppies They look nice when it comes to feeding time.

They are fine to keep, but they have a good chance of having a disease cause of the conditions they are kept in! They are like 10cents at my lfs so quite a bit cheaper from 3$.The ones at my lfs are very colorful and for some reason usally blue.

To me feeder guppies are just young guppies that get traded in. The lfs near where I live sell local guppies as feeders no matter what colour they are, and imported guppies as normal guppies. They have no difference, but only in price. Here, Imports are $3.95 while feeders are 50cents each. Usually I check at the feeder guppy tanks first then I move to the Imports. Through my experience feeders are more hardy as they can be placed in cold water, but imports must need heaters. It would be nice to have a nice big tank full of nice feeders, they are cheap and are nice. No one said you cant have feeders as pets. I do! So, why cant you?

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All the best
Steve

[font color="#800080"]I was wondering if Feeder Guppies can make good pets. I think they're so cute and pretty, I would like to own some. But I have a few questions first.

Being bred specifically for being food, do they have a short lifespan or any common diseases? What size do they grow to? What do they eat? I'm confuzzled...

Are there any good sites out there about owning feeder guppies as pets?

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I think they make great pets. These fish are very inexpensive for large groups, undemanding in their care(other than the usual), and very hardy. The only way I would use these fish as feeders is if I had a chance to weed out the diseased ones and then gutload the rest. But I really think they are better off as pets

FishyCharacter, I agree that they are hardier then fancy. A couple years ago I was loosing interest in the aquarium hobby so for quite sometime before I ended up fishless I kept regular feeder guppies. Don't exactly remember how I came about getting them but they were neat fish to keep, if not all that pretty.

As said before they are basically just like the fancy variety except, IMHO, they are hardier and much less colorful.

For a time i was cleaning and such for a realestate management place. I rescued a 25 gal tank full of them, i mean there had to be 100 guppies in there. no filter, no heat, no airstone. noone had been in this house for a month.my boss said to throw away anything they left. i threw out the guppies and tank to the car! They were some pretty hardy fish. Had them for several years ( after i did some drastic population reduction- ) then my kids who were little at the time killed them off by dumping a 3 liter bottle of pepsi in the tank- they thought they wanted a drink.They didnt have the pretty tails like fancies, but some got very colorful.neat fish.

i have some with my puffer in a brackish tank.. one of my feeder guppy females is over 2" long

do keep an eye out for diseases.

often the feeders are trested as 2nd class fish and this can lead to illness.

choose from a healthy tank in a healthy shop.

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

Fedders are extremely hardy as they are extremely genetically diverse unlike fancy guppies. Although they do not take well to constantly changing temperatures(the small ones) the large ones will grow to be beautiful- one of my females is .5 of an inch or more

By the way, those rosy red minnows are also VERY hardy and have great personalities if you let them live. Good for cycling tanks and keeping after.

I have about six that my fiance "saved" from the LFS. They are exactly like fancy guppies only without the tails and not as big. I have found them to be a little more hardy than the fancies though.

there jsut ditch guppies
treat them the same as normal guppies they grow up to b the same i had the gurl next door liberate some ( she stole my piranha food) she thinks she saved them they grew up to b quite colourful lil guys

they r guppies so treat them as such they will breed jsut like the fancy tails