Sos! Should I Isolate Pregnant Guppy?

View media item 247154This is my very pregnant guppy, she is usually skidish but she always hangs around with my endler, but I just caught her breathing like this and she tried to nip the endler! Should I isolater her?

Also! I don't have an extra filter or anything just a fish bowl. HELP!
P.S. Take it easy on my I'm new to this.

 

Hi, depends on what you want to do, do you want to grow the fry on once born? what are her other tank mates besides the endler? do you have a breeding box or anything?

 

Hi, depends on what you want to do, do you want to grow the fry on once born? what are her other tank mates besides the endler? do you have a breeding box or anything?

I am hoping to try to raise them if I can catch them in time, I don't have a breeding box yet but I do have a large fish bowl and a smaller diamond shaped tank. I am planning on getting a breeding box (Or net) soon. As for the tank mates she is with another guppy, 3 neon tetras, 3 glowlight tetras, ghost shrimp, a clown pleco and 1 (possibly two, the second disappeared) mystery snail(s). Since I don't have the box yet, would it be better to just evacuate the fry when they are born? (Unless I get the breeding box first.)

 

I would highly recommend getting a breeder net, not a breeder box!
Unfortunately I can't get the pocture to work, but if she looks like shes going to give birth imminently go ahead and put her in the tank or bowl even without the filter. Do you have a spare heater?

 

OK, you could use the bowl or smaller tank as a breeding tank, if you could set one up & move the female guppy in to it until she spawns then move her back to the bigger tank & keep the fry separate, do you have a small internal filter you can use, if not you can just do daily water changes to keep the water parameters good but you'll need a small heater unless your air temp is good at the moment & an air pump & stone would help too, you'll also need some fry food to feed them on or some finely crushed flake but guppy fry have a real knack for survival, you'd be surprised at how they can thrive.

 

I am definitely going with a net and I am going to order it Monday with 2 day shipping. Does she look like I can wait or should I put her in the bowl now? I have a heater but it has been in the garage for several months and it is for a 10g, the bowl can't be anymore than a gallon, plus I don't have any way to get oxygen in there. I haven't got my test kit yet either (Also going to try to order it Monday.) so I would have no way to test the water in her bowl. Is it possible that she wouldn't give birth for a few days? I also have some spare plants lying around that are like the picture below but the leaves are a slightly different shape, worst case scenario could I put those in the tank for the babies to hide in if they came before I got my net and then put them in the bowl? Or would it be safer to put her in now without the equipment? As you can probably tell, I wasn't expecting her to be expecting. I only bought females but they were housed with males at the store and dummy me didn't pay attention.

 

Guppies are easy to colony breed; I keep all my fry with the parents. I would definitely recommend leaving her where she is as opposed to moving her to an unheated bowl.

 

Well from the vid her belly doesn't look too distended so you may have a few days before she spawns but they're all different so it's hard to be specific, having said before about separating her you don't have anything big or predatory in the tank with her so there's a very good chance the fry would be fine in the tank, like I said they're very good at surviving & as long as they have somewhere to hide & you can feed them small food stuff you'll be surprised at how many of them actually make it.

 

Well from the vid her belly doesn't look too distended so you may have a few days before she spawns but they're all different so it's hard to be specific, having said before about separating her you don't have anything big or predatory in the tank with her so there's a very good chance the fry would be fine in the tank, like I said they're very good at surviving & as long as they have somewhere to hide & you can feed them small food stuff you'll be surprised at how many of them actually make it.

I've heard that guppies are known to eat their fry. Is that another fish myth, also should I add the plants so they have somewhere to chill?

Sorry about the lack of punctuation, my app is screwing up and won't let me edit my comments.

 

Guppies definitely eat their fry, but, if you give the fry places to hide and feed the adults well, they'll have little incentive to seriously predate them.

 

Guppies definitely eat their fry, but, if you give the fry places to hide and feed the adults well, they'll have little incentive to seriously predate them.

So I should definitely add those extra plants. Also intake sponge, yes or no?

 

I would say yes to both since you already have the plants, and, even though guppy fry aren't particularly likely to fall victI'm to an intake, it's worth having a prefilter anyways.

 

Came home from church tonight and found these in my main tank. I managed to get them all out but one, who I named stupid because he won't let me catch him. I have no way to heat the 1.5g tank they are in but it has a bubbler, can I put a lamp over it or will it do no good?