22nd Nov 2009
Feeding Guppy Fry
Keeping and raising guppies is a very rewarding experience. These active fishes are very appealing and their colors are very fascinating. As active breeders, caring for guppies involve constant dealing with its fry, as your females guppies can get pregnant much often than other species. Raising guppy fry could even be a more enjoyable experience. Not much expertise is needed to successfully do it, but a little basic knowledge would do. The first four weeks of your young guppies are necessary for body and muscle building, and are the most critical period of their overall growth and development. During this time, your guppy fry are fed as often as possible. Others would feed their guppy fry about five times in a day, but doing it more often, like up to 10 times in a day would be better for them. Their very small digestive systems require refilling every 20 minutes to maximize their growth period.
When kept in the same tank with the mature ones, they usually feed on the leftovers and nibble on the algae. Usually, when the fry are housed in a different tank, they are fed with some baby brine shrimp or ground flake fish foods. The nutrition obtained from the brine shrimp is found necessary for the fry to develop and enhance their coloration. Color enhancing fish food is strongly discouraged. They do not provide the necessary vitamins and your fry needs the proper nutrition to properly grow and develop. They need protein source too, which is easily obtained in fish food supply stores. But if you could cook them up an egg yolk, they would love it. Other options in feeding your guppy fry are micro sized live food, paste food and special fry formula dry food you could purchase from pet supply stores. Your guppies would also enjoy some live tubifex worms, walter worms, mosquito larvae, wingless fruit flies and vinegar eels.
The water temperature is a big factor in the growth of your guppy fry. An increase of the temperature speeds up their metabolism. You would have to feed them more often, but you could expect them to grow much faster and healthier. How you care for and feed your guppy while they’re young could make or break the quality of guppies you have as they turn into adults. Feed them right and feed them well. When your fry are well nourished, and your tank is kept at its best condition, you will definitely be looking forward to having show quality guppies in the weeks to come.
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