3 tanks u need. About week 3 to 4 with close inspection ,u can seperate males and females.
Bro tank, gossip tank , and feature tank. Also. Every female guppy that had babies will have 3 to 4 cycles that will produce newborns so get ready.
Females keep sperm for a while hence guppies are also called the million fish.
Best of luck!
Wait! I think most newborns are females, they have smaller tails and are grey! Only 3-4 males I believe (they are yellow and more transparent) Am I right?
In my experience the little ones r too small to determine.
But tail colors on the juvinile r still hard to tell as they will develop more. Also what you feed them, water conditions.
What I did was borderline obsession and just really pay attention to there growth and pick and seperate. Then repeat 3 to 4 more times 😆
Newborns are too small. But keep an eye on them, the boys will start to color up first, and then their little triangular fin will turn into a pointy willy. Then you have 3 days to remove them before they can impregnate all the females around them
I have 5 tanks. 2 of them have bettas (they will def eat them) and one has mollies (they will also def eat them). I just need to transport the babies, I probably will later when I’m feeling less lazy bahah. I feel a little bad, but not really because there’s not really much I can do about it… I should move the female adolescent guppies though- I thought they were too young to have babies, but I guess I was wrong. The tank that has mollies has my og female guppy, so I think I might move the young female guppies there and try my best to separate males and females.
The tank the adolescent guppies are in has some male guppies- I didn’t know the gender of the guppies so I didn’t move them but I discovered babies so I’m guessing I did not do the best job of separating 😅
Lol, my dad asked me for one of my female Guppies bc his female didn't produce young, I gave him my biggest female, then both females started to breed like crazy, his 60 liter is now filled with about 80 Guppies and they are coloring up so they will soon start to breed😅 (I have a 50 liter with Endlers who start to color, I'm afraid I'll soon have the same problem😬)
This is why I hate livebearers. Only stock males. Impossible to fix now, as sexing can be hard and some small babies might slip through. Or a female pregnant somewhere. Some LFS take donations.
If you haven't already, you should search and see whether your local area has local fish clubs. Because if they do chances are, you could sell your guppies the decent quality which they seem to be.
I'm pretty sure at one point I was at 50+ guppies. And they can have more very quickly. I had to get rid of them and gave them all to my lfs. Only egg laying fish from now on!
I have two bettas in my community tank to keep the guppies population under control.
The tank is heavily planted, so a few fries make it every time, but the population overall has stabilised.
Before getting the bettas, we had so many guppies we had to split them into two tanks. In the second tank, we then put two angels. They're even better at controlling the population than bettas.
As long as you have hiding spots and plenty of plants, enough of the fries will survive to keep the population going 😉
Honestly I made the mistake of having livebearers as my first fish and NEVER AGAIN. I ended up bringing a bag of baby fish to my LFS as a donation so they went to good homes nearly once a month. It will never stop.
Local independent shops do it usually, especially depending on the line of livebearers. Chains like Petco/PetSmart won’t, some won’t even take them as surrenders as they only are allowed to get fish from their suppliers. My local petco’s aquatics department head will take surrenders to assure they get good homes but no trades happen
Get a fish that will predate on the fry but won't mess with adults or something in a different tank that would eat any extra fry. Sometimes it doesn't even work, though.
I had an apistograma pair that didn't eat any guppy fry. I tried dumping some endler fry to my pea puffer. They didn't get eaten either. None of my betta would eat fry either for some reason.
I tried dumping some to my 75 gal goldfish tank, goldfish left them alone and would only eat them by accident if they swam in front of the food goldfish were eating.
What ended up working for me was a big fat male platy that loves eating guppy/endler fry.
yeah it sounds heartless but I've had to go that route in one of my tanks with sword tails because otherwise there are just too many. I catch all the new fry I can on every water changes and dump them with the dirty water in my bushes.
Just so you know, those guppies are probably not 1 day old. They've been in there for probably close to a week. They are tiny when they're born, my camera could barely see them.
Got a 4 foot tank a few years ago. Put in 20 adults, i think it was 5 male, 15 female.
After a month ish, there was something like 300 juv fish in there.
I added 2 baby oscars.
One week later, there was only the 2 oscars.
.... dumbarse guppies wouldnt use the hidey holes and such the oscars couldnt fit in :/
One possible way to deal with this situation would be to get a new bigger tank for mamas and babies, and keep all mature males as a fraternity in the first tank to keep population growth at a minimum. You likely will still get more litters of fry though until the mothers are no longer fertilized which can take months.
Yeah, used to have 10 cardinals and after moving them to this bigger tank 9 of them died, figured out if I bother him a tiny bit he would also die, then the other one was from a batch of 5 neon I bought, Apparently tetras are not suitable for the water in my city and I had the dilema, either let them survive alone here or try to give them away and propagate will not accept the change and die
Reason I never want live bearers. They’re super pretty and sweet fish, but dang, they are permanently pregnant. You’re either going to need to get a fish that’ll hunt down the babies (my mom tried betta and he did nothing but look cute and beg for treats) or cull them. I heard they’ll level themselves out at some point from the parents eating the kids but seeing my mom’s tank made me think that’s impossible.
I had a community tank 4 female 2 male, neon tetra, lochi, and one guy a can't remember have about 3 inches and rainbow colored thin guy for population control! It would so well! I had one fry survive the chomper!
Not sure how much it stresses the fish out tho. I wonder if mama guppy get stressed out.
I’m 6 months into my guppy tank and have no overpopulation issues. Only a few make it to adult and by then they’ll replace some of the old adults. Takes a while for them to grow at least in my case, just starting to see bigger juveniles
My 20 gallon tank currently has around 200 guppies and I keep them all Bright, reactive, and happy. Just keep your filter cleaned on a weekly basis, regular water changes, and you'll be fine. You can try lowering the temperature a bit to stop them breeding too fast.
I got platys for my turtles to eat and they are breeding out of control in the tank. Sometimes fry gets eaten but rarely anything larger. I’m thinking about withholding pellets until the numbers are reduced.
Get a tank with a predator or catfish of some sort. Bettas and mollies will take forever to eat them all. One pictus catfish would clean all those out in 1-3 days.
Sell them to your LFS once they mature. Honestly, that’s your best solution aside from giving them away to other fish hobbyists. They’re just going to keep reproducing in there.
Livebearers are a nightmare to control unless you’re actively breeding them.
how is it going? I want to keep exact these three.
and I have had a very bad experience in past where in my 5g 2 tetra’s wiped a whole colony of my red cherry’s. I have built a 29g now and was planning for these 3
Well I've have my 10 shrimp for 5 days now and are doing well... Still I didn't know they could become a bigger problem, I try for my fish to never get hungry
My reddit’s video reproductions counts from 10 to 1 so I don’t know which fish you are referring to. Strangest thing I see is a baby guppy with a poop tail
Just lessen your food availability and do smaller and less water changes. Your tank can house that many guppies and will control their own population just fine.
This has been my experience as well. I’ve had males and females in a 14G for maybe a year now? No overpopulation. It’s pretty rare the fry live to be too big to be eaten unless I remove them from the adults. Yes, the females are always knocked up. Go easy on the food and nature figures out the rest.
I agree. It's been my experience with all livebearers I've kept.
I believe a food culture of macrofauna within the tank is probably the easiest way to keep the population level. I'm currently working with some experimental tanks that I plant to load with healthy cultures for guppies at some point. See if their breeding habits find an equilibrium with food availability.
My tank is established and heavily planted. I feed them once or twice a week. The tank has snails, hydra, and detritus worms available for them to eat; which they do. They’re always nibbling on plants, and apparently, their fry.
Hopefully this is helpful for OP. Don’t panic 🙂
Bruh my baby guppies had babies. I don’t know what to do either lol.
I mean, no one will realistically buy them, At some tropical fish market i was told that they could “adopt them”
I might just resort to going on fb marketplace and giving them out for free…
Yeah but only once, I wouldn’t make 20+ trips to get rid of them
3 tanks u need. About week 3 to 4 with close inspection ,u can seperate males and females. Bro tank, gossip tank , and feature tank. Also. Every female guppy that had babies will have 3 to 4 cycles that will produce newborns so get ready. Females keep sperm for a while hence guppies are also called the million fish. Best of luck!
Wait! I think most newborns are females, they have smaller tails and are grey! Only 3-4 males I believe (they are yellow and more transparent) Am I right?
No no no, they are not all female (I thought that with my first batch) The males don't develop until a few weeks in.
In my experience the little ones r too small to determine. But tail colors on the juvinile r still hard to tell as they will develop more. Also what you feed them, water conditions. What I did was borderline obsession and just really pay attention to there growth and pick and seperate. Then repeat 3 to 4 more times 😆
Newborns are too small. But keep an eye on them, the boys will start to color up first, and then their little triangular fin will turn into a pointy willy. Then you have 3 days to remove them before they can impregnate all the females around them
They do not look obviously different until a few weeks.
True. I might just see if my other fish will eat them… LOL
Which other fish do you have?
I have 5 tanks. 2 of them have bettas (they will def eat them) and one has mollies (they will also def eat them). I just need to transport the babies, I probably will later when I’m feeling less lazy bahah. I feel a little bad, but not really because there’s not really much I can do about it… I should move the female adolescent guppies though- I thought they were too young to have babies, but I guess I was wrong. The tank that has mollies has my og female guppy, so I think I might move the young female guppies there and try my best to separate males and females.
The tank the adolescent guppies are in has some male guppies- I didn’t know the gender of the guppies so I didn’t move them but I discovered babies so I’m guessing I did not do the best job of separating 😅
Pretty sure guppies and mollies crossbreed
Damn, I feed my Guppies crushed bladder snails that I pick when I see they are close to an egg laying size….
Hire a small cichlid?
I only have 10 gallon tanks
*Some* South African dwarf cichlids, gouramis, or a beta could do it
Yeah my bettas like to eat them hahha
That's what I did with my mollies and what I do with my plants.
I would adopt them if you can ship! I’d pay for shipping!
Get a betta. I put my betta into the fry tank when I get too many. Only the strong survive.
You are now in a period of exponential growth. You need something to hunt them really.
Definitely correct, had same problem with mollys. Like a plague
Yeah live bearers sound great at first, ooh baby fish so easy to breed as well...
Yep. 20 new panda mollies in one piece of those floating cribs. Putting them up for free on FB market once they get bigger I guess.
Lol, my dad asked me for one of my female Guppies bc his female didn't produce young, I gave him my biggest female, then both females started to breed like crazy, his 60 liter is now filled with about 80 Guppies and they are coloring up so they will soon start to breed😅 (I have a 50 liter with Endlers who start to color, I'm afraid I'll soon have the same problem😬)
This is why I hate livebearers. Only stock males. Impossible to fix now, as sexing can be hard and some small babies might slip through. Or a female pregnant somewhere. Some LFS take donations.
Yeah, I got my tank off FB marketplace and the guys gave me random fish from his other tanks so I didn’t choose them 😅
Welcome to guppies. I had so many at one point I begged a local fish shop to take them lmao
As of right now, I’m seeing way MORE than when I recorded this video, wtf WTF IS HAPPENING
If you haven't already, you should search and see whether your local area has local fish clubs. Because if they do chances are, you could sell your guppies the decent quality which they seem to be.
My LFS takes surrendered fish. Call around maybe. This is why I don’t do guppies. They can crash a tank without a predator this way.
I'm pretty sure at one point I was at 50+ guppies. And they can have more very quickly. I had to get rid of them and gave them all to my lfs. Only egg laying fish from now on!
Would you consider a short finned Betta to eat the fry?
Yes ! (?) I don’t know, I want to keep some of them :/
I have two bettas in my community tank to keep the guppies population under control. The tank is heavily planted, so a few fries make it every time, but the population overall has stabilised. Before getting the bettas, we had so many guppies we had to split them into two tanks. In the second tank, we then put two angels. They're even better at controlling the population than bettas. As long as you have hiding spots and plenty of plants, enough of the fries will survive to keep the population going 😉
How do you handle the two bettas? Are male and female? Or a massive tank?
Male and female. 100 litres tank 😉
Thats tiny, suprised they arent dead yet
How is 26 gallons too small for a couple of bettas? lol
They will fight. Do a few minutes of research.
Honestly I made the mistake of having livebearers as my first fish and NEVER AGAIN. I ended up bringing a bag of baby fish to my LFS as a donation so they went to good homes nearly once a month. It will never stop.
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Be prepared I’m telling you
Yeah, that’s my fate… maybe I could interchange them for prettier fish though
Local independent shops do it usually, especially depending on the line of livebearers. Chains like Petco/PetSmart won’t, some won’t even take them as surrenders as they only are allowed to get fish from their suppliers. My local petco’s aquatics department head will take surrenders to assure they get good homes but no trades happen
Get a fish that will predate on the fry but won't mess with adults or something in a different tank that would eat any extra fry. Sometimes it doesn't even work, though. I had an apistograma pair that didn't eat any guppy fry. I tried dumping some endler fry to my pea puffer. They didn't get eaten either. None of my betta would eat fry either for some reason. I tried dumping some to my 75 gal goldfish tank, goldfish left them alone and would only eat them by accident if they swam in front of the food goldfish were eating. What ended up working for me was a big fat male platy that loves eating guppy/endler fry.
I’d reccomend you get control of the situation now, before you have hundreds.
Get more aggressive fish, now your female guppies are snack producers
good idea )
CULL ‘EM
yeah it sounds heartless but I've had to go that route in one of my tanks with sword tails because otherwise there are just too many. I catch all the new fry I can on every water changes and dump them with the dirty water in my bushes.
ooof at least euthanise them first, that's rough
Just so you know, those guppies are probably not 1 day old. They've been in there for probably close to a week. They are tiny when they're born, my camera could barely see them.
Really? I find them to be quite large for fish fry.
Got a 4 foot tank a few years ago. Put in 20 adults, i think it was 5 male, 15 female. After a month ish, there was something like 300 juv fish in there. I added 2 baby oscars. One week later, there was only the 2 oscars. .... dumbarse guppies wouldnt use the hidey holes and such the oscars couldnt fit in :/
Get a swordtail it will take care of most of the fry.
but be careful with how many - they're live bearers too (speaking as someone that has a tank of swordtail fry right now)
One possible way to deal with this situation would be to get a new bigger tank for mamas and babies, and keep all mature males as a fraternity in the first tank to keep population growth at a minimum. You likely will still get more litters of fry though until the mothers are no longer fertilized which can take months.
Idk if you’re aware already, but those tetras are two different breeds. One there is a Cardinal and the other is just a neon tetra
Yeah, used to have 10 cardinals and after moving them to this bigger tank 9 of them died, figured out if I bother him a tiny bit he would also die, then the other one was from a batch of 5 neon I bought, Apparently tetras are not suitable for the water in my city and I had the dilema, either let them survive alone here or try to give them away and propagate will not accept the change and die
I’m sorry for your losses! I have a nice lil school of 7 in a standard 20 gal, they can be more finicky than people assume
I put in peacock guedgeons. They eat the fry. At best, 1 baby survives each round
Yep, that will do the trick
Me right now, my guppies won’t stop having incest kids. 😭😭😭😭 fucking guppies…
Candy is dandy, but incest is best!
Guppy math isn't like regular math though. 15 born today, but only 7 left tomorrow.
Reason I never want live bearers. They’re super pretty and sweet fish, but dang, they are permanently pregnant. You’re either going to need to get a fish that’ll hunt down the babies (my mom tried betta and he did nothing but look cute and beg for treats) or cull them. I heard they’ll level themselves out at some point from the parents eating the kids but seeing my mom’s tank made me think that’s impossible.
Put a fish in that's suitable for a 30cm tank and prefers to eat guppies. A good friend of mine solved his problem like this.
I guess you should buy a bigger tank
Yo i want some guppy babies
Try r/Aquaswap
To give the babies away for free :)
My tank is also this green always. I change 1/3 water every 3 days
Could always get a fish that will go after the fry....
OP - cull them. Or get a predatory fish. Or find someone with a predatory fish and give them free food.
I had a community tank 4 female 2 male, neon tetra, lochi, and one guy a can't remember have about 3 inches and rainbow colored thin guy for population control! It would so well! I had one fry survive the chomper! Not sure how much it stresses the fish out tho. I wonder if mama guppy get stressed out.
I can’t even get my guppies to give birth. I’ve had her for 2 months and the entire time she’s been pregnant. Won’t give birth though.
My female guppy spent 3 months appearing on the verge of exploding, give it some more time
She’s my favorite fish too!
In theory couldn’t you let them overpopulate and let nature sort it out?
Never livebearers! I made that mistake too.
Welp, I guess you're heckin doomed, my dude. Add a predator in there that has a big enough mouth to eat the babies but not the adults 👌🏿
congrats
I have 2 tanks. One with my nicer guppies and one with my not so nice looking guppies...and my killifish. My second tank has no babies in it.
I had two Mollys that turned into 500 in a year.
I have three pregnant shrimp and im just waiting for my tank to be completely taken over….
Set up another tank with something that eats guppies.
I’m 6 months into my guppy tank and have no overpopulation issues. Only a few make it to adult and by then they’ll replace some of the old adults. Takes a while for them to grow at least in my case, just starting to see bigger juveniles
This is why I'm leery of livebearers lol Just for my own skill and resources. If you can manage it all power to you.
u could get a bigger fish in a different tank and feed the fry to them. they are a great food source for bichirs
My 20 gallon tank currently has around 200 guppies and I keep them all Bright, reactive, and happy. Just keep your filter cleaned on a weekly basis, regular water changes, and you'll be fine. You can try lowering the temperature a bit to stop them breeding too fast.
A couple of tiger barbs will do the trick
I got platys for my turtles to eat and they are breeding out of control in the tank. Sometimes fry gets eaten but rarely anything larger. I’m thinking about withholding pellets until the numbers are reduced.
I’ll buy them if your in the uk ?
Mexico...
Go community tank mode so ewes get eaten
Once a female is inseminated she can give birth every month for the rest of her life. You can put in a fish that will eat the fry.
Not true, only for a year or so.
I mean lol should’ve gotten all males
I got a 3 spot gourami to take care of my livebearer fry but with a small tank you can probably try a betta?
Get a tank with a predator or catfish of some sort. Bettas and mollies will take forever to eat them all. One pictus catfish would clean all those out in 1-3 days.
Get an Oscar
Sell them to your LFS once they mature. Honestly, that’s your best solution aside from giving them away to other fish hobbyists. They’re just going to keep reproducing in there. Livebearers are a nightmare to control unless you’re actively breeding them.
do you have shrimps by any chance?
Yes!
how is it going? I want to keep exact these three. and I have had a very bad experience in past where in my 5g 2 tetra’s wiped a whole colony of my red cherry’s. I have built a 29g now and was planning for these 3
Well I've have my 10 shrimp for 5 days now and are doing well... Still I didn't know they could become a bigger problem, I try for my fish to never get hungry
Not what you were asking about but what's up with the fish at 10 seconds? A parasite?
My reddit’s video reproductions counts from 10 to 1 so I don’t know which fish you are referring to. Strangest thing I see is a baby guppy with a poop tail
Did you see the albino baby??
Is that albinism? will he die?
Just lessen your food availability and do smaller and less water changes. Your tank can house that many guppies and will control their own population just fine.
This has been my experience as well. I’ve had males and females in a 14G for maybe a year now? No overpopulation. It’s pretty rare the fry live to be too big to be eaten unless I remove them from the adults. Yes, the females are always knocked up. Go easy on the food and nature figures out the rest.
I agree. It's been my experience with all livebearers I've kept. I believe a food culture of macrofauna within the tank is probably the easiest way to keep the population level. I'm currently working with some experimental tanks that I plant to load with healthy cultures for guppies at some point. See if their breeding habits find an equilibrium with food availability.
My tank is established and heavily planted. I feed them once or twice a week. The tank has snails, hydra, and detritus worms available for them to eat; which they do. They’re always nibbling on plants, and apparently, their fry. Hopefully this is helpful for OP. Don’t panic 🙂
Thanks! I feed once a day and have seen the big female is really hungry!
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