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Guppy Sexing Well, I am new at this and have been reading everything I can get my hands on about guppies. It seems I have read in several places that although it may be a little early, that it is better safe than sorry if you are wanting to pick your breeders, rather than leaving nature to take...

Hmmmm...interesting - I think our water is kinda medium, so we'll see. I'm thinking I may have a lot of females - I see a lot of little dark spots that I think are gravids....I can't wait to see them in a month to see what kind of colors we have. It's our first batch of fry - anyway, thanks for...

:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: My 20-25 guppy fry are almost 4 weeks old, need to separate ma/fe. I am going to give you all a good laugh now, at my own expense - how the *&#% do you tell a gonopodium from a piece of hanging poop??!!! Or should I be looking for gravid spots? What is the easiest method...

Well, I DID feel a little like I'd been spanked, but hey! Some like that sort of thing :taped: - OOPS! Did I say that?!! Seriously, one other question - does aging water remove ALL dangerous stuff or just the chlorine? I've been using bottled drinking water for all my PWC, but was wondering if...

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: OK - I have done the first 50% WC, and will continue per your instructions. Thank you!

Thank you for your response earlier today re: gup fry w/red gills. Had my water tested - sorry, didn't get the numbers but he showed me on the color sheets where each tested out - nitrates/nitrites were great, ammonia was 4.0 !!!!!! He sold me some conditioner to knock it down and explained to...

Okey dokey - will do testing & post test results tomorrow. And just to clarify, I took the old filter out probably a week ago to treat for ich, got rid of that and then put a new filter in yesterday. As far as feeding frequently, I guess I had read a lot of stuff on different websites that you...

Okay, I admit, I have been too cheap to buy all the test kits :oops: what with all the start-up costs ; tanks, filters, food, etc. And actually, I put a new filter in cuz I had removed the old one to treat them for ich (success) and I didn't think I should put the old one back in. And on that...

Thanks - that should be a very useful website to have bookmarked, appreciate your help...

Greetings from Kansas! I am new to this forum and am here to tell you, I will probably drive you all crazy with gup questions. Just when I think I am smooth sailing, another problem arises. My latest and most worrisome problems pertains to my very first batch of fry, three weeks old. I would've...