GuppiesRock

Our electric blue female has been placed into the birthing tank....hopefully in the next few days she will spit that mouthful out that she is struggling to hang on to.  This is her fourth mouthful and she is a natural mum, thankfully.  When I see she has a mouthful I wait about 1.5-2 weeks and then put the net in the tank and she swims straight in and I move her into her own tank next door to her normal tank and she does her thing in her own time.  her last mouthful was about 50 fry and she is heaps bigger this time so I am dying to see how many she has.

 

We also discovered the other day that our Sumbu Shell Dwarf had paired up and had babies.  Hubby was doing a water change and checked the bucket and found a fry so we pulled the other fish out of there and left the pair and their fry to do their thing.  First time parents....that we are aware of....so we aren't holding our breath but it is nice to know finally that we have a pair.

 

Oh and guppies and endlers have all bred as well hehehe

We have itty bitty Electric Blue fry!!  I figured our little first time mum was ready to go in the next day or so and we set up a tank for her next to the main tank so we could hopefully let her spit in there and not lose any fry to the other EB's in the main tank.  I didn't get a chance to move her though because as I checked the temp on the nursery tank I glanced over and she spat right in front of me.  In the space of 5 minutes we had caught all the other EB's and pulled all of the rocks out of the tank.  She was put in the nursery tank where she spat a couple more fry and then I caught the remaining fry out of the main tank.  We have something like 8-12.  They hide a bit and when they are out they move really quickly so hard to count.  We are thrilled as we didn't really expect to get any from her first mouthful.

 

We also have Brichardi fry and, as of this morning, Leleupi fry.  I have sold all my common guppies and now only have the Purple Moscows and of course they have had more fry hehe

We are very excited....our colony of Brichardi is currently guarding two separate batches of fry.  Our poor Leleupi are being kind of squished up in the front 2 inches of tank by what I call the sentinels so we are trying to get another tank set up for them asap.

We recently got a tank that has a colony of Brichardi and Leleupi in it and they were just eating each others offspring continuously.  We are going to put the Leleupi in their own tank and see how we go.  They are very striking fish....the yellow is so strong and it looks great.

Not that this will excite anyone unless they are interested in some feeder fish hehe, but my generic guppies have produced another couple of hundred fry over the last week and I have 9 ladies in my hatchery baskets in the various stages of birthing or else resting there after just having given birth.  My Purple Moscows have filled up their birthing tank with fry as well.  Oh and my common bristlenose have finally got the memo and I have little mini me bn everywhere in my BN tank as well.  

So guppies are a bit stupid sometimes.

Last night I was on my computer when one of my cats walked over to my little bin next the breeding tank and he was checking out a shopping bag that had fallen out of the bin....he suddenly jumped backwards and then my staffy ever so gently nudged the cat out of the way (read flung the cat about two feet) and licked what was on the bag. I jumped up and pulled the dog away worried he was going to eat something bad for him, only to find my turquoise male laying on the bag looking pretty dry....even though he had just been licked by the dog. I grabbed him by the tail and dumped him back in the tank....cursing the whole time. I put him in a floating basket as he was swimming kind of wonky and the other makes were hassling him and hoped for the best. This morning he is swimming around as if nothing happened. Silly fish....lol

He managed to jump out of a gap in the glass that is about 2-3mm. Time for some lace across the top of the tank again me thinks.

 Purple Moscows.

 

My main curved tank that currently houses guppies and BN.

 

Some BN feasting on zucchini and the baby guppies waiting their turn.  Will be so glad when I can spread the guppies out a bit as it is kind of crowded in there at the moment.

  My birthing tank.

Home made hatchery.  I have also made dividers so I can separate the mums and they stress less.

Hi All,

 

My name is Sasha and I have family members in the society and they put me onto you guys so here I am 

 

My husband is a huge cichlid fan and I discovered them when I met him.  We had numerous tanks at one stage but decided we should downsize and sold or put into storage everything except his original 4 foot curved front tank that a friend had made him.  All we kept in the tank were common bristlenosed catfish and we left them to do their thing and see what happened.  Well.....100's of babies happened!!  I sold a lot of them which was great and was a nice little boost in the finance department just when we needed it.

 

I was getting bored with a tank that really didn't have much movement in it so I wanted to get some more fish.....hubby got all excited thinking cichlids were coming back in the house, but I put my foot down, and now we have guppies going on.    I think his heart was broken but he had years of cichlids so it is my turn for a little while.  I know I know I am an evil woman

 

I went and purchased some Turquoise Guppies and within 2 weeks I had about 100 babies...oops   So down the back into the shed we went and out came the tanks we had stored down there.  First the one foot aqua one tank as a birthing suite that went on the breakfast bar in the kitchen and then the two footer with stand that has ended up in the loungeroom next to the curved tank and then a few weeks ago our 3 foot tank that had been divided into a 3 section breeding tank made it up to the house and that is sitting on a heavy duty pine coffee table....also in the loungeroom.  Sardines ain't got nothing on us!!

 

I wanted more than just the turquoise guppies so I started looking around.  Then one day we were told about one of your auctions coming up and I saw some Purple Moscows were being sold.  I googled them as I didn't know what they looked like and they were stunning!  I had a ring around the stores in Perth and no one had them.  So thinking it wasn't going to happen I ended up with some Neon Green Guppies instead.    I have a birthday coming up and a couple of days ago my mother in law and her partner turned up with an early birthday present for me.....my own little colony of Purple Moscows and I am in love.  They were purchased from a society member and they are amazing!  So a big thank you to that person  .  I am sure my family members probably told you that I was getting them as a present.   But once again I now find myself in the position of needing more tanks hehe.  I think this is a common problem once people start getting fish of any sort really.   The guppies are a temporary thing...temporary could be one year or ten......but the aim is to try and fund a nice cichlid tank again with any proceeds from the sale of my guppies offspring.

 

So whilst I am a bit of a fraud for being on here at the moment with no cichlids in my house...my reasons are legitimate as I will be watching and learning while I am biding my time before cichlids once again enter our lives.

 

Thanks for letting me become a part of your society and I hope I have something to offer whilst I am learning from you all.