Bmtiz92
Aquarium Advice Activist
Hi everyone,
Tonight after I got home from my night classes, I started to do a PWC on my 10 gal tank. I haven't been as diligent with it the last two weeks because I have had tests and have been sick, so as soon as I got home tonight I turned off my filter and airater and started to siphon off the bottom, to my shock the poop started swimming! Upon closer inspection I realized I had a couple fry in there...I have searched high and low and only found five, and have put my two female guppies into the breeder box I got as a quarantine box for a fish with a hurt fin. I had no idea either of them were pregnant, much less about to drop fry! Neither of them really got much bigger, and everything I've read say they "square off" and I never saw this in either of them. Thing is, now I have 5 baby guppies and I have absolutely NO idea what to do and how to care for them! Right now I have them in a betta cup just so the other fish won't eat them, but I know obviously this won't work long term. What do I need to get to care for them? What can I feed them? I hate to put them back into the tank because there really aren't plants for them to hide in as my goldfish has destroyed them (yes, I know he is too big for the 10 g, I am trying my hardest to rehome him! LFS gave him to me to cycle my tank, told me to kill them when it was cycled and I couldn't do it. He didn't mention they get huge) so I doubt they would stand much of a chance as far as hiding goes. Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated!!!
BTW, I added a couple of pictures, hopefully you can see them :/
Tonight after I got home from my night classes, I started to do a PWC on my 10 gal tank. I haven't been as diligent with it the last two weeks because I have had tests and have been sick, so as soon as I got home tonight I turned off my filter and airater and started to siphon off the bottom, to my shock the poop started swimming! Upon closer inspection I realized I had a couple fry in there...I have searched high and low and only found five, and have put my two female guppies into the breeder box I got as a quarantine box for a fish with a hurt fin. I had no idea either of them were pregnant, much less about to drop fry! Neither of them really got much bigger, and everything I've read say they "square off" and I never saw this in either of them. Thing is, now I have 5 baby guppies and I have absolutely NO idea what to do and how to care for them! Right now I have them in a betta cup just so the other fish won't eat them, but I know obviously this won't work long term. What do I need to get to care for them? What can I feed them? I hate to put them back into the tank because there really aren't plants for them to hide in as my goldfish has destroyed them (yes, I know he is too big for the 10 g, I am trying my hardest to rehome him! LFS gave him to me to cycle my tank, told me to kill them when it was cycled and I couldn't do it. He didn't mention they get huge) so I doubt they would stand much of a chance as far as hiding goes. Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated!!!
BTW, I added a couple of pictures, hopefully you can see them :/