Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
Guppy Fish
Panic....I've got babies....what do I do ....call the wife?.....no she had kids not fish......isolate...yeah ...how...Jesus get a book quick....call the Guards...SPCA....The Pope....HELP.
You get the picture, I was a little excited as you can tell.
Anyway the upshot is that I have 1(one) fry presumably from a Guppy. The rest must have been eaten and this little fella swam into the filter which was perfect shelter for him.
I transferred him to a breeding netted box thing that I got when the tank was about 5 days old. Ya I know - plonker - bit on the optimistic side.
He seems to be quite happy flying around the place and eating ground fakes. Not so sure about the liquidfry as it's microscopic I just presume he's taking it.
Gas thing is I thought I had 2 males. Perhaps someone can confirm the sex of these two from the photo. Hope this works ????
Wow it worked.
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The male ones tend to have a bigger tale and a smaller
fin on top!!!
Good look with the fry!!!!
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Best of luck with the new arrival
Monty
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The fry would have been well fed on the particales of food in the filter.
The Guppy on the left or the red one is the male. Posably a red or golden red tuxedo Guppy.
You can tell this is the male by the gonopodium or his manhood dangling beneath him. Also males tend to be more colourfull.
The Guppy on the right is the female. Possably a yello or red yello tuxedo.
The females tend to have most if not all there colour on the tail.
I once had a wild female with practicaly no colour and was twice the size of a standard female.
When the females are pregnant there abdomen will swell (large belly) and soon before she is ready to give birth you will notice a gravid spot (dark spot on the anis).
Females are capable of storing the males sperm to use at a later stage.
I hope this is of some help and you can look at your female in a months time as she could be pregnant again by then.
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Had a similar problem myself with Molly's about 3 years ago. Put a few fry into the breeding net and some disappeared. - No holes etc. Neve found out what happened - all speculation - however years later and I'm back with mollies (daughter selection this time ) and now the breeder I have is plastic and not net based and I had another few fry in it and came in one morning to find that one full grown mollies had jumped in. Begs the question if they can jump in - can they jump out. Luckily no damage was done - 2 fry at the time and one of them went missing. Now I was in trouble - (2 young daughters each owning a 'baby fishy'). Thankfully my LFS helped me out by giving me a fry their mollies had dropped - that little blighter was the only one to survive.
Monty
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