The results will amaze you. Brine shrimp is the number one food for guppies, especially if they are feed live to your fish. A high level of protein, fat and carbohydrates will allow your guppy fry grow bigger and faster. Adult are also love consuming brine shrimp. Brine shrimp can be cultured at home, indoors with ease. I use a brine shrimp hatchery kit purchased from Amazon years ago, to hatch brine shrimp eggs. While brine shrimps eggs needs days to hatch, I recommend keeping multiple hatcheries running at once, if you want to feed your fish with live food every day.
Egg yolk is one of the most common foods that hobbyist fish keepers prepare at home. Egg yolk provides a lot of fat to your fish, so adult should not be feed with it in high quantities. The egg yolk is a great source of protein and also includes sodium potassium, and Vitamins such as A, C, D, B and minerals such as calcium, Iron and Magnesium. Egg yolk is a complex food for baby guppy fish.
The yolk of a hard-boiled egg should be crushed up into a paste and feed to your fish in low quantities. Do not overfeed with this food, because it can highly pollute water. Beef heart is another super-food that is feed often to guppies. Once the beef heart is cleaned of fat and chopped into very small pieces with a blender or a sharp knife, it can be feed to your fry guppies.
It can be mixed with hard-boiled egg yolk, carrots, spirulina powder, shrimp and other ingredients for better results. It is not recommended to be feed to adults due to high fat. Daphnia can be purchased as freeze-dried from stores; however, the big majority of fish keepers who feed daphnia are having their own live culture. Daphnia is relatively easy to culture at home. They require hours of light and they feed on algae, yeast and bacteria.
Culturing daphnia indoor might be difficult, because of the smell. So keep that in mind if you want to culture daphnia in your home. Daphnia is a great source of protein, carbohydrates and fat. It also provides a great amount of vitamins A and D, which is vital to guppies and all fish.
Vinegar eels can also be cultured at home. I usually have 3 or 4 cultures running at once, in case one is crashed. Although they are easy to culture, harvesting them is a more complicated process. The strong smell of vinegar is another downside of culturing vinegar eels indoors. Take some frozen or fresh vegetables cucumber, zucchini, spinach, carrots, peas, green beans and broccoli , blend them together. Put the blend in a sealed bag and place it in the freezer.
Once the blend is completely frozen, cut off a small piece and feed it to your fish. From the vegetable blend, you can prepare flake food too. Put the veggie blend on a cocking paper, and place it in the oven. Once the blend is completely dry, crush it up in small pieces and pour it into an empty sealable container or seal bag. There you have your homemade flake food. First consider the environment you will be breeding them in. Will you let nature take its course in their regular home tank as a casual breeder, or will you set up a special breeding tank to carefully control the breeding?
It should be similar to the home tank so as not to stress them, but make mating easy. You can carefully choose the guppies you will breed for colour, size or any other feature think is interesting or important. You will also need to have a few tanks to accommodate breeding pairs as well as some small tanks for the fry. When accessorizing the tanks there are a few important things to have. Having a breeding trap is an important accessory.
These are a small trap that is hung in the breeding tank. It has two compartments separated by a slotted wall, so when the female is ready to give birth, the fry can safely swim to the other compartment, preventing the female from eating them, the last thing you want when breeding is for the female to eat the fry. Also make sure the lighting and temperature match in all tanks, this way there is less stress and more chance of success.
You should also make sure you have good aeration as well. A good air pump is important to move the water and get the oxygen flowing in. You can also add live plants, not only will they help oxygenate but they will provide a food source and a hiding place for the fry as well.
The first step is to choose which guppies to breed. You can choose any adults with the features that you want to breed, such as colour, shape or size. However if you would like to have more control, you can take things to a breeding tank. Once the female has conceived you will notice a small patch just above her fin, called the gravid spot, will be a little darker, this is where the eggs are kept.
Then you wait. It takes about 30 days for gestation and you will notice your guppy getting a little larger and boxier in the stomach area. Close to the time of delivery, you will want to move your fish into a breeding trap to make sure the fry stay safe. They will be fully independent and you will be able to move them to their own tank or area right away. Once the fry are born you want to provide them with plenty of places to hide and plenty of foliage.
Live plants are best. With proper cover they can be introduced right away to the main tank, or you can keep them in a smaller tank until they are a little larger. When caring for the fry you will have to monitor the tank conditions closely as they are very sensitive to change, so to give them the best chance of survival you will have to make sure the conditions are just right. You should also think about supplementing with brine shrimp or bloodworms to make sure they are getting all of the nutrients they need and give them a better chance at growing into adults.
If you are serious about breeding it might be a good idea to keep the fry in a separate tank until they are older and have developed their immune system better. Finally, watch the growth of your fry closely. You can tell by their growth if they are getting the nutrients they need and if they are becoming healthy adult guppies. If they are too small or growing too fast you will know how you should alter their diet to ensure they stay healthy, grow strong and become an interesting addition to any tank.
Once they have reached the age of between weeks they should have no problems being introduced in to the main tank with the rest of the population. The availability and abundance of different foods in regions populated by guppy fish will determine the type of diet that guppy fish have in the wild. For the most part, however, algae remains make up most of the diet of wild guppy fish, therefore, having vegetable matter in their diet in captivity is essential.
When it comes to feeding my adult guppies, I like to limit feeding to times per day. Guppy fry, on the other hand, should be fed more often. When I raise guppy fry, I keep a feeding schedule that features at least five feedings per day. I also make it a point to add as much variety to their diet as possible. The diet of guppy fry should mainly consist of live food or freeze-dried food such as live or freeze-dried baby brine shrimp, live daphnia, vinegar eel or microworms, freeze-dried tubifex and flakes for small fry.
For a better control over the ingredients that make up commercially available fish flakes, you can prepare a variety of fry-friendly guppy food from egg yolk paste to beef heart paste. Egg yolk paste is the easiest of the two take a hard-boiled egg yolk and crush it into a paste , but it can also be dangerous as it can quickly foul the water if you feed them too much of it.
You can even go as far as to prepare homemade flake foods by combining bone meal, fish meal, daphnia, vegetables, spirulina, vitamins, fish liver oil, etc.
Take the paste and spread it out on a parchment paper coated tray, then place it into the oven to dry it out. It may surprise you to find out that guppy fish can survive quite a long time without food. I agree that 2 weeks is quite a lot, but your aquarium must meet certain conditions before you can leave your guppy fish unsupervised for this amount of time. Therefore, you should first prepare your aquarium before you live your guppies to fend for themselves for 2 weeks.
Some aquarists suggest setting up an aquarium feeder for your guppies, but I disagree. Although adult guppies can go as many as two weeks without food, guppy fry can go up to three days without food in a well-matured aquarium. Because guppy fry are still developing and require a lot of nutrients, they cannot go without food for too long and they require frequent feedings.
I already mentioned that vegetable matter should be part of a healthy guppy diet, but what kind of vegetables are okay for guppies and how should you feed vegetables to guppy fish?
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