What is the best diet for my guppy fry to prevent spinal defects?
I have been raising 23 guppies for a couple of weeks. Initially, it seemed that the fry were very healthy, but recently I’ve noticed that a few of them seem to be developing spinal defects. This indicates to me that I have not been feeding them a proper Diet. What is the best diet for me to feed my guppy fry to prevent such defects? I have been feeding them an assortment of crushed up flake food, crushed up freeze dried blood worms, and specialty fry food.
There’s an article in Tropical Fish Keeping about curvature of the spine.
It says:
The most common causes of spinal deformity in fish are internal mycobacterial infestion that damages the bones; old age; a nutritional problem, such as lack of bone building minerals in the diet; or a developmental deformity, perhaps genetic.
August 11th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
spinal deformities is not from diet- it is from being toooo inbred.
i would suggest you add new guppies from another source into your tanks, the ones with besnt spines will eventually die because of it, and they have other unseen deformaties as well.
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August 11th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
spinal defects comes from lac of light
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August 11th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
i feed them boiled cucumber a slice every 2 -3 weeks to keep them on diet.
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August 11th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Main cause of spinal abnormalities is lack of light…
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August 11th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
There’s an article in Tropical Fish Keeping about curvature of the spine.
It says:
The most common causes of spinal deformity in fish are internal mycobacterial infestion that damages the bones; old age; a nutritional problem, such as lack of bone building minerals in the diet; or a developmental deformity, perhaps genetic.
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