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I can’t find a logical explanation for what you mentioned, less male breeders may increase the ratio of female fry? I’m planning to decrease the males anyway, because they’re exhausting the females, I’m sending them to the fish store 2-4 weeks later when they grow big tails. Let’s see if it will really increase the female fry! I doubt it though!
A book says that the breeding ratio is usually 1male:4females, it didn’t mention anything about the fry sexes.
As for my method of breeding, I use a clear plastic hatchery that I place inside the 20G, floating , it’s (4*5 inches), with bars that rise 1 inch above the buttom. I put the female in the hatchery when I see her really big with a dark dot behind the anal fin, or when I start noticing fry swimming in the 20 G tank (those are the babies who managed to escape and hide behind plants and filters, not for longer unfortunatly).
when the female finishes delivery I get her out of the hatchery and put the babies in the 2G fry tank directly.
I never put a pregnant female in the hatchery early, I don’t mind not being present at the right time to notice the delivery starting in the 20G, the mum’s comfort is more important to me, as I’m a mother myself! lol. Besides, I don’t have access to live food, worms, etc. So the fry will make up for that. Sorry if someone didn’t like this, but guppies can and will breed anywhere wheather we liked it or not, and we can’t always have room for all the offspring.
After moving the fry to the 2G, you know the rest of the story, I mentioned it in my previous email.
I usually feed them the same adult food, they seem to take it easily since day 2 or 3. I don’t feed them egg yolk because it causes turbidity in the water. And when I feed them with sinking protein granules, I drop the granules over a small glass plate placed right on the gravel, to prevent them from rotting in the gravel. They to grow slowly, due to the small size I suppose. buth once they’re moved to the 20 G , again, it’s like a burst of growth!
Noura
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