Regular Member vickielm Posted August 28, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted August 28, 2008 I stopped at the lfs the other day to pick up some fishie food and Prime. I can't resist looking at the fish while I'm there. While I was browsing around I saw a tank full of little guppy fry. It said "Feeder guppies"-$1.00! Now, I'm always going to do my best to be sure that no fish gets fed to anything, so I got somebody over there and told them I wanted 5 of them, thinking they were $1.00 each. The owner just netted like 6 or 7 of them and only charged me $1.00 for all of them. They are sooooooo cute!! I'm wondering if anyone knows what kind of guppies they use for feeders. They're just tiny guys...you can see through them right now, but they have a tint of silvery blue on their dorsals and a red dot in the center of them. I remember that Florence was a 25 cent "feeder" goldfish when I got her. Now she is easily 6 inches long and gorgeous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member alexiscool Posted August 28, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted August 28, 2008 congrats on the young ones lets hope they can grow to be big and healthy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member balashark Posted August 28, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted August 28, 2008 Congrats on the new fish. As for what kind, I'd guess the kind the pet store orders too many of? Got any pics of the little guys? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Chrissy_Bee Posted August 28, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted August 28, 2008 I figure feeders are just excess fry that are born in the guppy tanks, but I could be wrong. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Kets Posted August 28, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted August 28, 2008 I asked my LFS about feeder guppies once; he said they were wild caught. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member heidiinatree@yahoo.ca Posted August 28, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted August 28, 2008 I got feeder guppies when I got my puffer .....do you think I had the heart to do it ...but I had to cause I was trying to train the puffer to eat dead food ...thank god he trained well ...now the neighbour boy is setting up a tank and taking the guppies for pets ...they are turning into nice looking fish ..I'm glad the puffer forum are against feeder fish too 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member jyoti411 Posted August 28, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted August 28, 2008 Good job Vickie..congrats on the new babies... I agree with Kets and Chrissy as well..there is a good chance of them belonging to either of the kind.... pictures... ...where have you set them up???a tank to themselves???..wow..they are so lucky.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member vickielm Posted August 28, 2008 Author Regular Member Share Posted August 28, 2008 Right now they are too small and "zippy" to get a good pic. Its hard for me to count them every day because they just zip around the tank so fast!! As soon as they get bigger I will get one, though. They haven't grown enough to identify them from each other to give them names, but there are 7 of them, so right now I just call them the "Seven Dwarfs". If they grow nicely I think I'll set up a tank just for them alone and get a few more. Better than being eaten I'd say! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Chrissy_Bee Posted August 28, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted August 28, 2008 I think that'd be kind of fun, buying tiny fry and seeing what they turn into 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member jamisskat Posted August 28, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted August 28, 2008 You should come here to my LFS.. they have a huge display tank full of platies, and feeder guppies that are 15 for 1.00! Sometimes you will get lucky and find some real pretty fancies in there..those are the ones I save.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member vickielm Posted August 28, 2008 Author Regular Member Share Posted August 28, 2008 They did also have platy fry...lots of 'em. But I'd keep 'em all unfortunately, or all of them that lived. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member TetraLover Posted August 29, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted August 29, 2008 They're either baby fancy gups from the adult tank or Endler's Livebearers that are equally colorful, but smaller than guppies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Kets Posted August 29, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted August 29, 2008 They're either baby fancy gups from the adult tank or Endler's Livebearers that are equally colorful, but smaller than guppies. Why cant they be wild guppies? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member TetraLover Posted August 29, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted August 29, 2008 Mosquito Fish (unremarkable little things, but hardy as all get out, also mean to the bone, I had 3 females and they killed/ate all my fancy guppies and a loach) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquitofish Endler's Livebearer (pretty and really cheap at pet stores as feeders) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poecilia_wingei Fancy Guppies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guppy Poecilidae family (gups, mollies, platy, swordtails...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poecilidae 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member vickielm Posted August 29, 2008 Author Regular Member Share Posted August 29, 2008 Thanks Tetralover! Looking at the pics, they are either fancy guppies or mosquito fish. Endlers Livebearers have a more defined shape. These little guys are more "straight" shaped if you understand what I mean. After your description, I am hoping for fancy guppies, lol. Its kind of early to tell yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.