Did you state that you had the guppies fully transferred to marine water?
Mike.
"Joe" <gravity-central@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:57:28 -0800, "Paul Mannon" <Paul_Mannon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>
> >Does anyone have information on breeding feeder guppies or where to buy
them
> >wholesale?
>
> Buy a pair and wait a couple of months, :-)
>
> For anybody wanting to raise really healthy guppies, I did
> an experiment in 1958 that resulted in about 48 guppies in the
> best health I have seen. It also resulted in more than 20 pairs
> reaching adult stage all in the same tank without carrying any
> young, but later they dropped at least 5000 young in a 20 long
> with ample floating plants (which I dipped out with a little plastic
> cup placed next to them and then pu****ng the edge below the
> surface).
>
> I started trying to keep seahorses in an all glass tank,
> but at that time, it was difficult and I failed twice.
> So, since I had bought a pair of new (at that time),
> large s****skin (green), with decent sized tails, I got
> the idea to try to acclimate guppies to seawater.
> I put the batch of about 50 young in a small tank
> filled with the water they were used to, and then took
> out about 10 percent per day and replaced it with
> sea water.
> After about 6 or 7 days of this they looked fine,
> so I felt I could put them in the salt tank already set
> up and aged.
>
> I turned the air pump up, and began putting a
> small quantity of brine shrimp eggs right in the tank.
> The fish fed almost constantly, and gained size
> very fast. None died at all, but 2 jumped out of
> the tank at different times over 6 months.
>
> By then they were full grown, but no dark
> spots on the females, and no apparent interest
> in courting.
>
> So that is when I slowly moved them back
> into fresh water over a period of 6 or 8 days.
>
> It took about 2 months before for the
> females to look fat, and then they began dropping
> young, 4 or 5 a day at first, then up to 100 a day
> after another month or so.
>
> I had not isolated the better specimens as
> I should have done, but they were all of fairly
> consistent color and tail size (being they were
> all from the same litter).
>
> I feel this information could be im****tant
> in selective breeding, and in raising healthy
> guppies (and maybe mollies or other salt water
> tolerant species).
>
> I still love to watch the fish swim in a well
> designed aquarium, especially show quality
> guppies.
>
> Joe Fischer
>
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