Not Helpful 52 Helpful Yes, but it has to be warm enough, include an area conducive to spawning fry, and they need good nutrition. The parents or other fish may eat some fry when they are born, so careful. Not Helpful 17 Helpful Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. By using this service, some information may be shared with YouTube. If a male does not impregnate a female, try placing another male guppy in a separate jar and place the jar next to the breeding tank.
This should inspire the chosen male to impregnate the female, once he realizes there is competition. If this does not work, you might have to choose a different guppy to breed. Helpful 11 Not Helpful 0. Try pairing up females and males who have a particular color or fin pattern you like to ensure your fry look the way you want them to. Helpful 7 Not Helpful 0. Try to ensure you do not overpopulate a tank as they become stressed, aggressive and then they may attack other fish.
Helpful 5 Not Helpful 0. Female guppies store male guppy sperm for several months, so a guppy pregnancy may be the result of tank mates from the store she was purchased from and not the male guppy you put her with. Helpful 3 Not Helpful 0. Try to have two breeder boxes if you are using this method. One for fry one for the female giving birth. Helpful 1 Not Helpful 0. Give or sell your baby guppies if you have too many in your tank or else they will not grow and they will eat each others tails.
Helpful 3 Not Helpful 3. Don't check on them often or you'll stress the guppy out and it won't give birth. Helpful 3 Not Helpful 5. Occasionally, a guppy is born premature.
Like a baby, which is born early, with careful and gentle treatment, they actually can survive. Do not feed them until they are swimming, and keep a careful eye on how much food they get when their egg sacs disappear. In about 12 weeks, your babies will be about the size to be able to be put in with the mother and father.
Helpful 1 Not Helpful 1. Place a fry trap made with plastic bottles by yourself to help keep some of the fry safe in your community tank. Add food in there so they swim in to eat it. Helpful 1 Not Helpful 2. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 1. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 2. If a female gives birth to a baby take the female from the tank; otherwise she'll try to eat them. Don't put different species of fish in with the guppies , they'll stress the breeding pair and eat all visible fry.
Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. Submit a Tip All tip submissions are carefully reviewed before being published. If a male is being overly aggressive to females, try placing more hiding spots for the female guppy such as fake plants and small shelters.
If he is still overly aggressive and will not impregnate a female, remove him, as this is a bad breeding trait aggressive behavior which is uncommon in guppies and may cause the females harm. Related wikiHows How to. How to. Co-authors: Updated: October 26, Categories: Fish Breeds. Article Summary X To breed guppies, keep male and female guppies together in a well-maintained tank. In other languages Italiano: Allevare i Guppy.
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The gonopodium has hooks on the end to secure the male into the female for breeding. Female guppies are unique in the fact that she retains sperm in her genital region in special folds to allow her to produce several broods without male insemination for each. Mary Lougee has been writing for over 10 years. She holds a Bachelor's Degree with a major in Management and a double minor in accounting and computer science.
The whole mating process takes little or no time at all to accomplish. There is nothing fancy or extravagant about the way that Guppies mate. As a matter of fact, there is little contact at all between the male and female. During a brief encounter with a female, a male will deposit sperm into the female by means of their gonopodium.
The gonopodium on a male Guppy is located near their anal fin. Male Guppies do not directly deposit the sperm into a female. They actually transfer a package of sperm into her known as spermatophores which she can then use to fertilize many future broods of fry too. The best place to start when talking about how Guppies Poecilia Reticulata mate is to know a little more about the male and female of this fish species. Once Guppies reach sexual maturity around age 3 to 5 months , it is fairly easy to tell which fish are males and which fish are females.
Males, a large majority of the time, are much more brightly colored than the females of this fish species are. They are also usually smaller in size than the female Guppies are. Another feature that helps identify male Guppies is their modified anal fin which is called a gonopodium. This anal fin is less pronounced and more pointed than a female Guppies anal fin.
Male Guppies also have a dorsal fin which is significantly larger than those found on female Guppies. The single most distinguishing feature for females, other than their fin size and overall size, is the fact that they have a dark spot on them just behind or above their anal fin called a gravid spot.
As was mentioned, they are very willing breeders and intermingling between different types of Guppies is never a problem either. They tend to breed even more easily in garden ponds than they do in aquarium tanks. As a matter of fact, most people who raise Guppies find it harder to keep them from breeding than getting them to breed. The reason for this is because there are instances of female Guppies giving birth in aquarium tanks and garden ponds where no males are present.
Although Guppies are certainly not capable of asexual reproduction, the females are able to carry male sperm inside of them for up to 6 months at a time. This will enable them to fertilize several batches of eggs over that time period without the presence of a male Guppy. The confusion is quite understandable in this case.
This is not the easiest question to answer. They really are that efficient when it comes to breeding. There are a few telltale signs that pregnant Guppies display.
It will also become much more rounded than usual.
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