I own the worlds toughest baby guppy. LOL

[fishtaco]

I don't think I have mentioned it due to the saltwater nature of the forum, but I have been breeding Endlers livebearer/blue guppy hybrids for the last couple months and have no problems getting rid of the little critters for credit at a couple LFS and a feed store that keeps a couple tanks of basic fish. Not much, but 50 cents a fish is okay when you are taking in 30-40 and is enough to buy food or take a chunk out of what I pay for my reef crystals.
Anyway I was scooping out fry from the tank to transfer them to a nice little 10 gallon planted tank I set-up with stuff I already had and when I dumped them out I guess one of them did not make it out, that was this morning very early and I just left the container I use for doing fish stuff next to the tank. This evening I noticed I had left it sitting and went to wash it out and there was a fry, pretty much with a pin-head of water keeping it alive. It lasted like that for about 8 hours and I am amazed that it could make it that long and I put it in the tank with its litter mates and can't even tell which one it was.
Fishtaco

 

[meowzer]

LOL.....that happened to me with cichlids......I was cleaning out a tank (had too many).....the fish in this 16G had died.....so I turned filters off, dumped out water and gravel.....and when I carried the tank into the kitchen I caught a glimpse of something wiggling....it was a teeny baby cichlid....maybe 1/4"...1/2" most.....I had no idea there were babies in there....LOL.....So I put it in the 46G and believe it or not.....that is the only cichlid I have left

 

[fishtaco]

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Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/381293/i-own-the-worlds-toughest-baby-guppy-lol#post_3320492
LOL.....that happened to me with cichlids......I was cleaning out a tank (had too many).....the fish in this 16G had died.....so I turned filters off, dumped out water and gravel.....and when I carried the tank into the kitchen I caught a glimpse of something wiggling....it was a teeny baby cichlid....maybe 1/4"...1/2" most.....I had no idea there were babies in there....LOL.....So I put it in the 46G and believe it or not.....that is the only cichlid I have left
Meowzer I have been thinking of getting out of the guppy ranching and switching over to dwarf cichlid ranching instead if I can find something I can breed and is rare or popular enough that I can actually get some credit for the babies. I once had a pair of convicts that made so many babies and it was hard to get anyone to take them and I don't want to make that mistake again.
Fishtaco

 

[meowzer]

Well believe me....I did not purposely breed these things.....At one time I had 2 tanks full of babies......I was giving them to my mother in law....except she kept killing them
FINALLY... I stopped removing the babies....and I figured if any survived....well, then they survived....if not

My issue is I have NOWHERE to sell them

 

[smartorl]

Breed dwarf seahorses. LFS's love to get them, and it helps to not collect so many from the wild. I get $5 a baby for mine.