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ya really have to look around the tanks for a colorful female. have to look at em from all angles too, even if it pisses off the worker thats helping u.

i have a female with an orangebody and red tail, then a female with a grey body and a blue tail with blue dots on the body.

I think you need to check on your water conditions... seems odd that you've had such a rash of deaths in a short period of time. Of course, it could just be a nasty run of bad luck, I guess.

Anyway, congrats on the babies. In my experience, my fry have started to show colors at 2-3 weeks old. Of course, all my fry are from yellow parents, so the color is very light and sometimes hard to see.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

wel i had another drop of luck, but then it perked right up again, well i lost a blue spot platty, my yellow female, who jumped while going into labor, i found her dry on he floor, then i lost 2 babys, they were runts anyway, i then got 4 excelent female guppys, i is heavely pregnant the others are a little pregnant, then i bought 27 baby gupps, the males are almost fully colored and the females, well not much at the moment, i got 11 females and 16 males all for 2 bucks then i bought a male and female, now i have over 60 fish

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRr i just lost my fav male, he was pure yellow i am having realy bad luck lately, atleast i still have my babys

well that "other gupp" got droopsy and died, she was only a few days away from giving birth, this sucks, now my ratio is all off 3MALES and 1FEMALE]:| and now my walmart isnt syocking them so i have to go all the way to platsburg because they have like 5 fish stores right next to them *sigh* i love going to my grand parents house

thanx, it was a big loss but i think i have some more mums in the pond, at the moment i think it is a sword and another gupp

Im real sorry to hear that !!!! Good luck with your babies!!!
-kristin

~!!I lOve LiFe!!~

well, she died a couple of days ago it is a great loss for she was full of eggs, but im hopeing her fry will look like her, and some of them are showing signs or blue is this normal?

i just found 2 more fry in the pond and now the female has cotton wool i have been treating her with melafix and salt

i took my female guppie in from her pond to give birth in peace well after i think 3 or 4 days this morning i saw 4 babys so i looked at the mother and she was much thinner so i removed her and put her in a 1 gallon with some more spanish moss just incase she wasnt done giving birth. well after an houre of rest i returned her to the pond where she eagerly swam away to be greeted by the rest of the school. well i moved the moss in the birthing pail and low and behold lots more fry well i was happy. next i moved them to the 1 gallon after a second cleaning. i removed the gravel and put a neon ordimentwith a plant so they would feen comfortable, next i fed them yolk and flake. so, did i do everything right? oh yea they have a lamp on them so they get the light they need for their spines to come normal.

oooooooo blue i have 2 greyish females and a yellow female with a red tail

i have no idea... some of my new borns from my blue female have more color than the other fry which are like 2 weeks older...

ok, how long before they start to show color? i think it has some orange on it but it could have been a or reflection?

congrats, u did everything right. i also have a 1G for my fry, i feed em Hikari First Bites. at first the fry didnt really know that it was food so there were alot of left overs and i had to do almost daily water changes but now theyve grown up a bit and learned to eat the food.

btw if one has a spine deformity, let it live for a while. one of mine has a deformity and its gone now, my sister made me keep it and it has out grown it's deformity

after feeding egg i do a water change

Fry need to be fed 3-4 times a day, so frequent water changes are necessary. First Bites is a good food. I also make my own fry mix...spirulina flake, tropical flake, freeze dried blood worms and shrimp pellets. Put in a bag, crush til it's a powder and store in a covered container.

Congrats

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Congrats on your babies. You did just fine. Also remember to feed the fry 3 times aday. I feed by molly fry baby Brine and betta bits. The bigger ones just love the betta bits.

[span class="edited"][Edited by TigerAngel 2004-06-28 18:18][/span]

You did everything just fine!! Congratulations on your babies

With a 1 gallon and basically always with Egg, you will need to do water changes. The egg though very good for the fry, is not good for the water so you will have to stay on top of that. I have always used just crushed flakes and mine are fine. Hikari also sells a crushed powder like flake called first bites, that works well too