Nini Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Walked past the tank this afternoon and told all my pregnant ladies to hurry up and pop soon so I could play babies with them... then saw a bit of poop float past another bit of poop faster than the water was flowing.. What? Took a closer look.. The fast poop has eyes and a tail! .. And by poop, I mean see-through baby fish.. Suddenly, I'm not ready to be a grandma.. Now, I've kind of stuffed myself up a little.. We had 3 female endlers in one tank with about 6+ males, so I took the fems out of their tank and put them in with the guppies (only have 1 male).. I felt sorry for them CONSTANTLY being chased.. But now I have 3 pregnant endlers (one of which is HEAVILY pregnant), and 4 pregnant guppies (2 of which look like they're about to explode).. I can't even get a picture of the babies because they're all hiding in the foxtail-plant stuff that grows insanely stupidly fast.. Is there any way to figure out which one is in labour so I can put her in the breeding box? Or should I just let her go and let nature do its thing with the dumb fish that don't know how to hide so they're not eaten? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goneself Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 You know endlers and common guppies will breed, right? Guppies go inot labour like other animals. They will try and hide, breathing will be more rapid, they may start shaking, etc etc. unless you're prepared to watch em all day though, a breeding box may be worth trying if you really want to ensure they make it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nini Posted August 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Yeah, the endlers were all pregnant before I moved them into the tank I'm going to move them back once I have a few more females to distract the males.. I just felt sorry for them :3 Hm, they're having fun tricking me then.. no one's hiding/shaking/not eating etc.. I sat in front of them for *ages*.. I bought a breeding box, and had the endlers in that for a couple days, but they didn't look happy in there either, so I put them in the tank. If I feed them a little extra between now and when they go to bed, will they still feel the need to eat the babies? The best I could get of the little swimlings.. It was pretty zoomed in, heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishkeeper101 Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 Putting them in a breeding net causes stress so unless you can see her giving birth and quickly put her in the breeder net she may obsorb the babies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusnsherell Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 You can put the pregnant female in a breeding box with divider before she is 'boxing' .... that is square looking moving them when they are heavily ptegnant can cause premature birth you can buy hang on b.boxes the babies flow thru when they strong enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nini Posted September 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 Yeah, I tried to put the endler in it to catch the rest of the babies.. she sat in there for 2 days and didn't have any more.. I figured it wasn't her in labour and transferred her back into her old tank with the other 2 females (and 2 new ones to give the males more to chase) and now there's 12 babies in the endler tank. I've now given up on the breeder box..lol I put gravel and a few pieces of plant in there to help her hide and feel secure and she still refused to pop the rest out.. so if they get eaten, or not fed enough, it's too bad. My son's pretty stoked that his tank has more babies than mine -- even though they're from the same fish lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southfish Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 welcome to motherhood!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TED Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 Hi Nini, Im new to endlers and i was told when i bought them that endlers dont eat their own young. I have kept guppies before and with the guppies you can actually see the other fish actively hunting fry when they know there is a female giving berth. Its the same with my swordyz. But the endlers definately act differently. I have watched the endlers closley and yeah, i dont think they eat their own young. not 100% percent sure. I havent noticed this behavior with the endlers yet so it could be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nini Posted September 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 Yeah, pure endlers aren't supposed to eat their young, but once they start being bred with guppies it could be a different story.. And majority of the endlers in the tank are from a LFS, so I don't REALLY trust them. So far so good though So maybe they're endler enough to not snack on them between meals xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishkeeper101 Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 I found the best way is to keep your breeders in a heavily planted tank that way the babies can hide. I just used a little 20 L tank full of Plants and it worked out great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nini Posted September 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 Yeah, I have foxtail-y stuff in the tank with them so they have somewhere to hide.. I just didn't trust the adults to not go looking for them through it all, and I was worried they wouldn't be able to find food. Endler fry are doing good back in the endler-only tank, and the guppy fry have learned to hide in the plants, haha.. They swim pretty quick too xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeper10 Posted September 8, 2013 Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 salt and heat in the water works great ' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishkeeper101 Posted September 8, 2013 Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 Once they learn to hide and swim fast they are fine its just getting to that stage lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nini Posted September 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 I can't salt them They live with peppermints, lol.. They were kind of something extra to look at for when the peps were in hiding (which is a lot xD haha) Well, the smart ones get to live, haha.. Free live food? >.> heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Booth Posted September 22, 2013 Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 hi ive been breeding endlers for some time now and the best way i have found is a well planted, high temp, clean tank. all my endlers are in the one tank and get along all together (no canabalism) the trick to it though is making sure i sell more males than females to keep the harrassment to a minimum lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Booth Posted September 22, 2013 Report Share Posted September 22, 2013 the less stress on the females the better. so moving her around to different tanks and breeding boxes etc you are only stressing her out. just let them be and nature does the best job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
