GuppieStudent said:Guppies.com. For you i highly reccomend it. In a couple of weeks i want you to seperate the males and the females.
Again through excessive inbreeding results can be: high percentage of deformaties, low fertility, spinal bends, and hernias. Be careful with them otherwise you will lose more and more. So i say seperate and if you want to breed them(the fry) then go to a different pet store and buy a male of the same app. age. Please these little guys can be so beautiful and amazing to look at with so many possibilities(for breeding for many results). I just want to see them live and be healthy. Your female should have had far more than that for a fry count. Thats why i am pushing so hard on you the importance and dangers of exstensive inbreeding. Im not being mean... I am only trying to help. Thank you for reading. I joined here myself for help. I just asked for help last night myself but im still gonna help with what I do know. Have a nice day snd let me know something. What kind of culture do you have for the fry.
GuppieStudent said:I'm not really concerned about separating sexes. I've never done it with my Molly or Platy Fry. I sell them on Craigslist or to my LFS. They are generally put in with males at that point anyway.
This was ocminpin response to me yesterday. I understand what your doing i just want you to understand that if you breed these fry or this female with the fry, you will most likely have more problems than happiness. Again im just trying to help
Neither. females can have good color to them, altho it is more common for the males to be more colorful. the gonopodium wont be visible at 3 weeks. they are still too young.You said I will be able to sex them at 3 wks... Do the males have a gonopodium at that age or is it by the color of them?
pcdebb said:i've never had my guppies gender at a month, that's just way to early. you barely have any color in most of them at that time. i've got about 50 in my tank right now from the last drop (another batch due anytime now), i've probably had hundreds by now.
they're all livebearers so there isnt going to be much difference in the breeding habits and the way they are raised. I think that the guppies are a little bit more prolific in breeding thoAnd I will say that I can't tell the difference between my 8 day old and 3 day old guppy fry at all. They're all the exact same size.
pcdebb said:it will be 2-3 months before you can tell gender in the guppies.
i've raised more than my fair share of guppies lol i've got another female that's ready to pop
pcdebb said:they're all livebearers so there isnt going to be much difference in the breeding habits and the way they are raised. I think that the guppies are a little bit more prolific in breeding tho
pcdebb said:A few years ago I bought home a Mickey mouse platy because I thought he was cute. Didn't really realize she was preggers, but about a week later she dropped about 60 fry!! The birthing was traumatic tho and she died