New Guppy Babies

Posted by Sarah on January 8, 2007

I woke up this morning, and found all of the fish awake and swimming around.

I knew something was up, since they are normally not moving when I get up, so I took a look around, and sure enough I saw a baby guppy.

I was able to catch one, and put it, in a breeder tank, but the other ones were too fast for me!

I’m pretty sure there are at least three, but I hope there are more.

These are Blue Girl’s babies - she’s my beautiful female with a blue tail, and I can’t wait to see what the fry look like when they grow up.

Since we haven’t even had her for a week, we aren’t sure what the dad looks like either.

I did catch Blue Girl this morning, and I put her into the top of the breeder tank, in case she wasn’t done giving birth, but she hasn’t had anymore yet.

A couple of hours after I put the baby in there, I went to check on it for the 50th time and the baby was gone.

I really hope he swam through the side, and escaped into the aquarium, instead of swimming up into the compartment with Blue Girl and letting her eat him.

I’m crushing up flake food, and I also boiled an egg, and mixed a little of the yolk with water to feed the fry.

One of the fry was hiding in the breeder grass at the top of the tank, but when I went to put the yolk and food there for him he disappeared. Hopefully he is still in the grass, and safe.

The fry do blend in with the gravel, so it’s really hard for me to find them, hopefully the other fish in the tank will have a hard time finding them as wsell.