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yep these are all the second generation of guppies that i have raised. the mother seems to be a pale yellow color that you can only see when she swims right near the light. she has a grey body and black spots on her tail. the father is mostly black with a bright orange/red tail with a bit of yellow near the top and a yellowish/orange top fin. they are not a special kind of guppy. just the pet store variety but i love 'em just the same!!!!
the guppy fry are getting alng so well with my panda cory fry!! its wonderful!!!

Well, I've lost two of the mothers but I now have over 50 babies and 2 of my big girls are still really big. Most of the fry are beginning to show black and some are showing an iridescent(?) blue one the top fin and tail. Some are a translucent yellow on their bodies and black on their fins. I can't wait to see which ones turn into what colors. I want to know who the daddy was. I hope it was my blue male and not some male that was their brother before i figured out the sexing thing.

congrats, and have fun raising the fry.

I've never seen a guppy give birth, but i use to have a little 'spotted' platty that did have 16 fry, which i raised all the way to adulthood and about 6 of them made it that long, i did make the mistake of leaving her in with the babies for the first night though lol...so thats where about 5 went lol...but ya its pretty exciting everytime there's babies in the tank lol

I have seen it many times. Right before a baby pops out, the general area gets rounded and she pops out anywhere from 1 fry to 3 fry at a time depending on the female and the fry "hit the ground running" usually. Sometimes they are kinda premature and have huge yellow bellies and just want to sit at the bottom of the tank, these usually get eaten unless you protect them and let them rest until they are ready to really swim. Sometimes she just drops out eggs, these were either too premature or unfertalized. These usually get gobbled up pretty quick too.

have anyone seen a guppy giving birth and how would it look like?i somehow missed it time and time again...

I am going to keep a close watch for suspicious behavior. :88) if you know what i mean. If they look like they are doing something "funny" they go in the boy tank!! hehe

Just something to keep in mind, sometimes the males don't show their "maleness" for several months:%)I had one little guy who convinced me that he was a female for almost 6 months or so, before showing his true self So be patient it can take awhile, and unless they have dropped fry there is still a likely chance that they could be males, and even then I've read and heard of livebearers who, uh crossed over to uhmbecome maleheidi


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Inow have 33 baby guppies and still have 3 pregnant guppies. one must have been saving up incase all the males died!!hehe I hope that i can find homes for the little guys I just don't know what i am going to do with all of them. I am going to be super agressive about properly sexing them early this time!! no more incidents like this last time. the sneaky little boy hide his true identity until after he had gotten all of my girls!! Now I have guppies galore!! I hope I have more males survive this time. I wonder how many babies i'll end up with in the end??? Who know's! I'll have to talk to the pet store about a deal for my babies.

Ya'll I'm so excited. Another of my guppies just had babies and I just got to watch them be born!!! It was so cool!!! I have 10 babies from one guppy and now I have about 20 out of this guppy. and I have 2 more guppies ready to pop any day now!! I hope enough of them survive to fill out my "collection" I have got so many aquariums now i'm running out of space. I am permanently separating my males from my females from now on!

I just found 7 new fry in my guppy tank. That makes me a grandmother!! because the mother of the new fry was a guppy that i raised from fry!!! I'm so excited!!

Mary,
Is the momma of these new fry, one of the fry that you had way back?

I know it is such an awesome feeling to find new fryCongratulations, next thing you know, you'll be a great-grandmother...
heidi




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

congrats...

Congratulations! What sort of color/patterns are the parents?

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can you upload pics oooh I love guppies

Good for you, and good luck for raising the fry.

good job.

Congratulations for your new Guppy's.



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GOOD FOR YOU! That's a great feeling, I've raised lots a generations of guppies, and I still get that feeling everytime I see a new generation of fry.