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What is he up to?

I just got this little guy recently and I noticed that he wont leave one of my platy alone. Is this something I should be worried about or is ot normal behavior?

u/SC-SecretAccount — 2 hours ago
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These guys are so pretty but incredibly hard to breed!

(Albino crystal pink) These guys are the hardest strain of guppy to keep alive and even harder to get them to breed and even if I do get them to breed, they predate on their babies worse than any other fish I’ve kept. They sure are pretty though 😂

u/Murf151 — 7 hours ago
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My guppy tank

This is my first successful tank. It is 2 months old. It is 65 litres waltsad method tank. It has vallisneria, small amazon sword and many water wisteria. It has a hang on back filter with custom sponge and activated carbon filtration. I removed the in built cartridges. I keep light on for 6-7 hours daily.

In past i have tried this hobby and had glass aquarium but It didn't work, they failed multiple times and it was very expensive for me to get all that aqua soil, plants and medicine and fertilizer. I gave up but then I thought let's give it a one more try and this time let's do in a container rather than buy expensive glass aquarium and this time it worked.

I have hb guppies and 1 cobra skin guppy. All are male. And I have put in 4 trumpet snails too. I will add some red dumbo ear female guppy later. Because I want to create new strain. It's an idea I got after I saw YouTube videos. I thought I want to try this and so I will.

As you can see i haven't wipe out the walls. Because I notice my guppies eat the stuff on wall. I feed my guppies 2 times a day. In morning I feed guppy bites. And in night i feed freeze dried blood worms.

Thankyou

( English is not my first language)

u/monoma25 — 15 hours ago
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urgent please help me what is up with her

she sits on the bottom and her tummy is super white

u/lobot1000 — 19 hours ago
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CONJOINED TWINS

I am absolutely flabbergasted. I just looked into my fry tank and did a triple take when I saw this..

A larger fry, with a smaller, but still visibly functioning fry attached to its abdomen. The small one still moving his tail. Wild.

u/Accomplished-Mobile1 — 1 day ago
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Thoughts?

What do you guys think of this male guppy? I'm not sure what to call this tail and don't know if it's ethical to breed him or not. In my head he's my prettiest male because of how unique he is. I need professional advice tho.

u/WorldlyPomelo2690 — 1 day ago
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This is yellow tuxedo male whys he's not showing clours and his tail edge whys it's black .. Can i breed him he's 3 months old

Can anyone help?? TQ

u/Royal-Life1203 — 1 day ago
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Breeding for organ size?

Hi guys! As a bit of context, I am currently working on breeding smaller sized guppies. I understand there are small varieties out there such as the japanese double sword and dwarf pandas, but I am interested in pushing the limits of how small they can get.

I have recently purchased a few short body females in very good health. There is no observable spine curvature nor ballooning of the abdomen before feeding. However, there is still that nasty little issue of them overeating. Their appetite is simply too big for their body size, even when I put less food in the tank.

I really want to incorporate the short spine mutation into my project, as it will greatly reduce the body length along with the smaller size of the pandas and double swords, but I don't want this issue of over eating to come along with it. All this leads me to ask, is there any reliable, noninvasive way to determine a guppy's internal anatomy? I want to select for smaller stomachs, but I just don't know how I'd even begin to do that. I've tried looking online for detailed charts of guppy anatomy, ways to see inside that don't involve invasive measures, but I still can't find anything with the information I need.

If anyone knows anything about how to select for organ size, please let me know! I want these guppies to be as healthy as they possibly can be, and would like to minimize the negative effects of the short body mutation.

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u/owmybodyhurt — 1 day ago
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crazy algae growth

So I've had my guppy tank for almost 3 months now and about a few weeks ago my tank has been growing crazy amounts if algae usually at the bottom of the tank and on a rock in the corner. It started with the rock a maybe a month ago, but eventually spread throughout the whole tank. I usually have to clean it out every morning, otherwise it'll grow more and more throughout the day. Is there any way I can stop it? If it helps, I have 3 bundles of Amazon Swords, one bundle of a Java Fern, a piece of driftwood and a moss arch. I took these photos maybe 10 minutes after I cleaned it. Any help would be appreciated!

u/NoCallerId83 — 1 day ago
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Is she sick or in labor?

Her gravid spot changed from black to this color and now she has clear poop. She’s not interested in food and is pretty much swimming in one spot. Idk if this is labor or she’s sick. My water parameters are perfect and all the other guppies seem to be okay right now. How do i determine the difference or do i just have to wait it out?

u/campwhit — 1 day ago
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White tummy?

I noticed a little wound on my platys belly, my molly was also picking on the wound..., and i immediately treated it with methylene blue and salt, he seems fine, has an appetite but today he looks a bit lethargic.

The whiteness isnt fuzzy so i dont think its fungal or bacterial infection but im really confused.

Could my mollies be roughing him up too much? why him?

Sorry for the bad photos, if the light was on he d always be moving around :).

Please help me see whats wrong with Sneakers.

u/lobot1000 — 2 days ago
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Guppy death…

Hi all,

Guppy was acting strangely hovering about bottom of the tank, would nip up for food and then go back to finding little hiding places to sit in. Water parameters are fine, tank is well stocked with live plants, java ferns and all other boxes ticked that way. Anyway today it died (I expected it to) but now another guppy is doing the same thing. The closest thing I’ve gotten to a diagnosis/reason is swim bladder infection - maybe I was too late but I started that treatment yesterday. In the tank there now 9 male guppies left and 6 harlequin rasbora.

Any ideas or suggestions on anything would be great as I’m still fairly new to fishkeeping!

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u/Headscramble — 1 day ago
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When can I tell what gender my fry are?

Basically what is says on the tin. I want to know when I can kinda tell what gender my fry are.

I have some guppy fry which are bout 2 weeks old now (maybe 3, not exactly counting) but they are all about 1 centimeter in length. From what I can see they've all got those wide fan/triangle butt fins that the females have. But there is no way I somehow got all female fry in one batch right?

So when should I expect to be able to tell if my fry are male or female? And what is the ratio of male to female in one batch?

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u/Rerarlo — 2 days ago
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rate my tank!

if you can think of things i need to improve on please don’t hesitate to let me know down below!

my guppies finally arrived and are rather hyper right now! i’ve been just sitting watching them for hours honestly, so beautiful :)

u/amyoswald — 2 days ago
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Really concerned about my new guppy

For the last couple of hours he’s been swimming in one spot near the surface. We just got four guppies in a new tank by themselves yesterday and they’ve all been active and fine up until this. The others seem okay.

He was the first to really explore the tank and now he’s just up by the surface and I’m concerned there’s something wrong.

I just did a water test and all looks fine. Nitrates slightly on the high side so I’ve done a water change.

Does anyone recognise this behaviour? What can I do?

u/kiraKurumi — 3 days ago