GuppiesRock

Usually it is about 2-3 weeks apparently.  Our girl seems to hold anything from 2-4 weeks.  I have been letting her do her own thing as she is still on her L plates as a mumma.  This lot she is holding now are heading up for 3 and a half weeks so I am watching her closely to make sure she isn't losing too much condition.  She is struggling to hold them in though so it is only a matter of time.

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

Hubby's Electric Blue female has a mouthful.  It is her first time so we watch and wait and see if she knows what she is doing.  Fins and fingers crossed.

Oh and the guppies had babies hehehe

So we currently have 2 batches of Brichardi fry on the go and for christmas we got 2 batches of Leleupi fry as well.  Oh and guppies