breeding guppies
You will not require many things to breed guppies, just breeding fancy guppy trio (1 male 2 female), small tanks, tank accessories and that’s all.
Breeding fancy guppies easiest among all other tropical fishes. But difficult part is raising guppies. We will cover it in some other posts.
Most important thing in breeding guppies is right choice of breeding programme. If you fail to choose right programme then your beautiful fancy guppies will look like wild guppies after few generations.
Concentrate only on one part, this will give optimum improvement in your guppy strain. Decide whether you want to increase fin size or brighter colors or size of tail or all to gather different strain. do only one thing at a time.
Once decided choose best suitable from following 3 methods
1. Inbreeding
2. Line breeding
3. Out crossing
we will see all these in short.
1. Inbreeding mainly advantageous in choosing particular color for fins, fixing fin confirmation or color pattens.
this method mainly involves breeding guppies closely related. e.g. choose best male guppy and breed it with its sister or mother. this will produce fish which look alike in patterns and colors. This method is also used for mass production of particular strain. fancy guppy you buy from fish store are likely breed using this method.
2. Line breeding is slightly modified version of inbreeding program. this method is very systematic and require lot of hard work and extensive documentation. To start with you take one male guppy and breed it with 2 sister female guppies. Keep separate resulting young guppies of each guppy female. this is first generation name it generation-1 (or whatever). next generation again breed a male guppy to 2 female guppies and keep each line separate. do this again and again till you rich 6th generation. at this stage you take a male guppy from one line and cross it with female guppy from other line. This method is proven and gives quality fish for years to years provided you chose best male for breeding guppies. Breeding male guppy from another line after few generations maintain better quality while strict inbreeding program improves particular feature of guppy.
3. Out crossing, as name suggested is breeding guppies of 2 unrelated guppies or even different strains. Most of breeders use this method to produce their show guppy or fancy guppies. Some people have developed beautiful new varieties by simply crossing everything they have together with the hope of finding the right combination. After this is done, the problem is getting the new line to produce the same type of fish. I would recommend selecting another line of fish with an established line only to improve the finnage or color of what you have. This can provide you with that little extra your fish may need to push them over the top.
Feed quality food to your guppies. Quality food will keep them healthy. Select young guppies for breeding. If you choose older ones they may not produce quality baby guppies. Keep in mind if you want great quality guppies you need discard which are ill or poor quality.
This article is rewritten from original article from FRANK SCHWAB who runs www.guppyalternative.com
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thisis good information. i got head start formy guppy breeding workshop.
hope will find such good articles in future.
Hi There …
I wonder if you could help me … I am breeding guppy’s and I just want to know if one can feed one’s guppy’s a cube of bloodworms every day? The females, males and the fry are crazy about it … I also feed them frozen food alternative with spirulina in a powder form and Tetra Pro Colour flakes. Is this three food combination a good enough sourse of food aswell as all the nutrition and vitamins they need to produse good offspring in huge numbers and keep them healthy and happy at the same time? I do a 70% waterchange three times a week. How long must I put a female and male togather for plenty of fry? If you can recoment anything els to help me or correct me on what I can perhaps be doing wrong, please do so.
Looking forward to hear from you …
Thank you very much
Kind Regards
Jaco (reply via email: eugene22@vox.co.za)
i feed my guppies with dry bloodworm. Bloodworm has all necessary nutrition a guppy require.
For guppy fry you can take pinch of dry blood worm, crush them and feed. You will see your guppies are growing and are healthy as well.
I feed mine that and they are growing great
i m trying to breed my guppys but they are not responding well. so what shuld i do?
Hi!
I used to keep guppies but for a while stopped and am now receiving a pregnant female guppy from my friend. I have done a lot of research (Since I want several batches of fry and am only receiving one female, and maybe a male.) So during my research I found that female guppies can hold from 5-6 sperm packets. Therefore you could technically get 6 batches of fry from a single female after she has bred with one male once. Of course this can cause problems if you want different males bred with her since you can never be sure of the TRUE father of the fry. But basically as long as the conditions are right, if she’s pregnant there’s a good chance of geting several batches without a problem. My friend knows this also from experience and told me this as well and I know from my own experiences that this is true.
Hope this helps!!