I haven't even thought of guppies in thirty years or so! I remember having them as a child. All I remember is that it's imortant to give the babies a place to hide because they are cannabalistic. Good luck and thatnks for the memory!

They are cute. I purchased a 10 gal. tank for the babies, but read on the internet that they can start having babies as early as 4 weeks old. I had never until this had any guppies, Only oscars and goldfish (but heavens, not together). I remember the green thing it was kinda round. You don't see them anymore. I had to do alot of searching just for the olden day filter ( that you use that cotten stuff in) since also reading not to use the outside the tank type. I purchased a breeding net and it has plants that connect to the side so when the mom that I have now has her babies I can just move the babies to the 10 gal. tank. I figure if I can do well with these in due time I'll try and run a strain of one type. I had one man tell me if I want to do that to toss out( throw away) the ugly ones and the ones that dont have the color that I want. I'm like sure I'm gonna do that, suppose us as humans were tossed out because of the way we looked etc.? I'll just have to put the pretty ones in a tank and the not so pretty ones in a tank and get a think that seperates the girls from the boys, Or make a room a fish room one. Who knows what I'm gonna end up with.

When they are so little how can you tell what is boy and what's girl? I heard that mollies were easy but they aren't that pretty. I wouldn't mind giving a whirl at breeding egg layers but really doubt it would be bettas. I read that male bettas are very protective of the eggs falling out of the bubbles or whatever you call that that he makes. Would love to try oscars one day. I can say my eldest babies are 3 1/2 weeks old now and they are all still alive. I kept out the gravel and all and am just using the old kind of filter and a foam like filter. I do a 10 percent water change every other day and feed them three times a day so I hope thus far I'm doing things correctly.I do hope that no more babies come for awhile other than the new female having hers. I was told sooner or later I could become overwelmed with the amount of fish, But who knows. I was also told that they can have up to 100. One of mine had 9 and one had 11. I couldn't imagine a gup having 100.

There are some marble sailfin Mollies that are quite attractive, not the plain bug-eyed black ones. The sunset type will have up to 10-20 babies at a time; we bought a pregnant one! They were snacks for the Cichli=ds in the tank.