Just A Funny Story

Hey all , just thought i would share this with you all as its something i have never come across before

We all know how easy it is to breed guppies and in itself its pretty much a " leave them alone and they'll do their thing " kind of set up . So as few weeks ago i collected a group of guppies from a friend ( cheers sheag) simply because my mother thought the tank looked kinda boring ( sheesh ) .... so the group of 5 or 6 guppies added plenty of activity and a splash of colour to the 60 ltr tank which only held a breeding pair of kribs and a few fry .

Then about 3 weeks ago i was going on holidays to the states so was leaving mother dearest in charge of feeding duties ....... the morning before i left i found 2 guppy fry swimming in the tank so decided rather than leave them to the mercy of the krib parents , i would isolate them in a floating hatchery ....

The following morning i flew out on my holidays thinkin nothing of the new offspring until approx 1 week into my holiday i phoned home to say hello , only to be greeted by my mother in a small state of puzzlement ( is that a word )

apparently the dull coloured fish had decided to jump out of the water and into the hatchery with the 2 fry ( this was how i heard the story by the way , not my description ) . I told my mother to try fish her out and get her back into the tank to avoid stress , which she duly did .

Upon my return from holidays a few days later i noticed the female guppy was back in the hatchery again and swimming back and forth quite happily ...... upon second inspection i realised she had actually given birth to approx 7-10 new fry .... i left her there over night and fished her out the following morning .

Now i thought this was kinda convenient as she had saved me the hassle of trying to net the fry myself , but i put her escape down to the fact that the 2 male guppies in the tank were constantly pestering her .

I have been back from hols just two weeks now an she has done the same thing twice more ( the latest being this morning ...... the joy of not having to try pull apart a tank to catch fry is amazing .... I have a guppy that works on autopilot ..... she jumps into the hatchery and has the fry , and i put her back in the tank the following day .... COULD A MAN ASK FOR MORE ????????

Brilliant must be the way I train them lol

Thats class!!! Super clever Guppys!!

This is not a joke so; but an extremely intelligent pet to tell us about! Nice!

a guppy that hates coming across, lol wat is the world coming too.

but maybe you should think of getting more females to devide the action, she might injure herself being a stuck up gupp