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What to feed guppy fry?

Guppies are unpretentious small aquarium fish, the simple content of which explains the popularity of the species among both beginners and experienced breeders. An important feature is that they are viviparous – fry are formed in the mother’s abdomen and are born already capable of independent life. One individual can produce from 10 to 100 babies at a time, depending on their age, but then the question of feeding offspring arises. We offer you to figure out how and what to feed guppy fry correctly and what nuances you should pay attention to.

Feeding features of guppies

Before the offspring guppy appears, the pregnant female is placed in a separate aquarium so that the young that appears does not become food for other adults. The guppy fry is housed and fed separately until they become competitive for life in a shared aquarium. The diet of small fish differs from the diet of adults guppies and has the following features:

Periodicity – for babies, it takes 5-6 meals a day, all the food should be eaten in one feeding. The settling of food debris at the bottom of the aquarium creates a dangerous increase in the nitrogen content for guppies, which can lead to the death of the offspring;

Food sizes – unlike food for adult fish, food for small guppies should be much smaller. Dry food before serving in the aquarium is pressed between the fingers to a state of dust;

Lighting – it is forbidden to turn off the light in the aquarium, especially the first week;

The volumes of food served. From birth, for the first two weeks, guppy fry should receive an abundant amount of food, which would exceed their weight by an average of 60%. In a period of up to two months, the portion size to weight ratio is doubled. Only after two months of age, the grown-up guppies fish begin to feed moderately – first, offering food in an amount of a third of the weight, and in the future – 15%.

Three months after they are kept separately, the young grow guppy can be returned to the common aquarium – they are already old enough and large fish will not be able to harm them.