Friday, February 18, 2011

More Guppies

I have been inundated with Guppy babies. There are about a dozen guppy babies in the main tank and I transferred a couple more to the smaller tank, in which there are now six fry. I may have gotten more than I bargained for with this guppy breeding experiment!

Monday, February 7, 2011

Guppy Update

Here's the latest with the guppy fry: At one point I counted six fry in the main tank. A few days later there were only four fry in the tank and I confirmed several times over a period of a few days that there were only four fry. Tonight I discovered a fifth fry in the tank that appears much smaller and darker than the other four. I don't know if it was just barely born or if it has been there a couple days already. There is a female that looks like she is going to give birth any day now. Perhaps this was just her first with more to come. Meanwhile, the four fry in the small tank are doing just fine and seem to be growing as fast as those in the main tank. The first batch of fry are almost three weeks old now. It looks to me like the 3-week-olds in the main tank are no longer in danger of being eaten by the adults.