![]() |
Advertise |
|||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
Welcome to the Aquarium Forum forums. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast and simple so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact contact us.
OR |
Members currently in the chatroom: 7
|
|
![]() |
The most chatters online in one day was 16, 03-02-2012. Vampa, Euruproctos, TaylorM237, susankat, majerah1, Redemer123, ChristinaT |
![]() |
|
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools |
|
|
#1 (permalink) |
|
Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 0 Times
Said "Thanks" 0 Times
Was
Thanked 10 Times in 7 Posts
|
South Jersey Guppy Group (Fancy Guppies) Specializing in championship show guppies
Experiments with Guppy Foods by Dr. E. C. & Associates The following statistics are the results of an extensive series of test run by Drs. Larr, Johns and Tobins. To determine which kinds of foods would cause female guppies to drop the largest number of fry. Each test group consisted of three pairs of adult guppies which were fed only the one kind of food- - and no others—during the 120 day test period. Each tank of test fish were fed three times a day: morning, noon and afternoon (4 pm.). The dry food tests consisted of alternate feedings of regular and flake food; the regular food being a 50/50 mix of two leading brands of dry food; the flake foods being a 50/50 mix of two leading brands of flake foods. (Since these tests were conducted. Another brand of dry food has been tested which fits between #5 and #6 for production of young.) FOOD TEST NUMBER 6642 (LARR, JOHNS, ROBINS) FOOD TOTAL No. of Fry 1: Earthworms, chopped 178 2: Earthworms, chopped frozen 164 3: Beef heart 143 4: Tubifex 141 5: Brine Shrimp, Hatched 101 6: Gordon’s Formula (Liver) 79 7: Brine Shrimp, Adult Frozen 76 8: Dry Food, flake & regular 52 9: Freeze-dry (brine shrimp & tubifex) 40 10: Leaf lettuce 37 11: Peas 28 12: Farina 18 13: White worms 16 14: Oat Meal 12 15: Bran 9 16: Bread 6 All low producing pairs were given earthworms at the end of the above test and all quickly gave results as in # 1 17: Earthworms and dry food 194 18: Earthworms, beef heart and lettuce 221 In the testing of beef heart it was found that feeding this material, even every other day, prolonged the guppy’s life from 25% to 50%. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What I don't see is if these numbers belongs to only one drop or two. The health & vitality of both females and drops appear not to be tested either. It would be interesting to know that too.
__________________
GUPPY STRAINS I'M BREEDING: Blue Grass Blue Grass Swallow Metal Blue Grass Swallow Red Grass Red Grass Swallow Neon Blue Giessen/Ribbon Japan Blue Blue Grass Japan Blue Wild Neon Blue Strains I developed in my fish room: HB Yellow (own line) Platinum Pink Blue HB Blue Leopard HB Leopard Multi HB Red Crowntail Last edited by forguppies : 06-14-2008 at 03:08 PM. |
|
|
|
| Said thanks: |
![]() | Join AquariumForum.com Today - It's Free! Are you an aquarium enthusiast? Then we hope you will join the community. You will gain access to post, create threads, private message, upload images, join groups and more. |
|
Sponsors |
|
|
#2 (permalink) |
|
Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 0 Times
Said "Thanks" 0 Times
Was
Thanked 10 Times in 7 Posts
|
Other research indicate that food rich is fatty acids (found in many live food including worms) increase the number of fry per drop. I personally saw an increase of at least 50% in the number of fry my females dropped after I started feeding them live BBS daily.
__________________
GUPPY STRAINS I'M BREEDING: Blue Grass Blue Grass Swallow Metal Blue Grass Swallow Red Grass Red Grass Swallow Neon Blue Giessen/Ribbon Japan Blue Blue Grass Japan Blue Wild Neon Blue Strains I developed in my fish room: HB Yellow (own line) Platinum Pink Blue HB Blue Leopard HB Leopard Multi HB Red Crowntail |
|
|
|
|
|
#3 (permalink) |
|
Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 0 Times
Said "Thanks" 0 Times
Was
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
hi
|
|
|
|
|
|
#4 (permalink) |
Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 87 Times
Said "Thanks" 47 Times
Was
Thanked 48 Times in 39 Posts
|
Thanks for the great article. My Belonesox just had 45 babies. I'm going to be in the need of lots of feeders and was just going to ask if anyone knew how to get larger broods. Earthworms it is!
|
|
|
|
|
|
#5 (permalink) |
|
tim mckinney
Said "Welcome to Aquarium Forum" 5 Times
Said "Thanks" 3 Times
Was
Thanked 10 Times in 9 Posts
|
the earthworms will be fo some good food , just dont forget the other vitamins all protein is not good, vitamins are great with the protein.
|
|
|
|
|
Sponsors |