Foods We’ve Fed Our Endlers
- Crushed high quality flake food
- baby brine shrimp
- algae (allowed to grow naturally in aquarium)
- spirulina
- algae wafers
- Golden Pearls 200-300 microns size
- Frozen Bloodworms (chopped up)
- Frozen Brine Shrimp (chopped up)
- Zoo Med® Can O’ Cyclops
- New Life Spectrum® small fish formula
- New Life Spectrum® Small Fry Starter
- Hikari Fancy Guppy granules.
Full Answer
What do you feed baby Endler Fry?
We have found New Life Spectrum® Small Fry Starter to be an excellent choice for feeding newborn Endler fry. Finely crushed flake food is also eagerly take by young fry. When our Endler fry get a little larger we feed them a combination of crushed flake food and Golden Pearls.
What kind of food do Endlers eat?
Endlers seem to prefer a general tropical fish flake food or a food that is specifically made for guppies. Most flake food is much too big for our Endlers and their fry.
How often should I Feed my Endler Fry?
Feeding your fish small amounts of food several times a day is ideal. Try not to feed your Endlers more they can eat in a couple of minutes. We have tried feeding our Endler fry baby brine shrimp in the past. Raising brine shrimp is more of a hassle than we would like and we gave it up.
How do you raise an Endler Fry?
Alternatively, they can be raised in a separate small tank until they attain mature sizes. Endler fry exhibit rapid growth when fed a few times a day. Finely crushed flake foods, algae wafers, specially-prepared powder fry food, and baby brine shrimp are good food options for them.
How do you take care of baby Endlers?
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Do Endlers eat their fry?
Endler Guppies will eat their own babies given the opportunity. Endlers are known to display a behavior known as filial cannibalism which results in the female eating her babies immediately after birth. Female Endler guppies take no parental responsibility for their offspring.
What do you feed Endler guppies?
Endlers will eat both live and frozen foods, as well as a portion of high-quality flake food. Frozen and live bloodworms are a favorite food of wingei, and they also enjoy brine shrimp, daphnia, and blackworms. Also, you'll need to supplement your fishes' diet with some form of plant matter.
What do you feed Endlers livebearers?
Endler's livebearers are omnivores, and feed on small insects, algae and plant matter in the wild. This diet should be recreated as closely as possible in the home aquarium. This can be accomplished through the feeding of a high quality flake food, and live or frozen foods.
What do you do with Endler guppy fry?
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Will Endlers eat baby shrimp?
Yes, the Endlers will eat some of the shrimp babies, but the shrimp should reproduce quickly enough that the Endlers don't really have an impact on the number of shrimp in your aquarium.
How fast does Endler fry?
Endler fry will grow very quickly when fed a few times per day. Males attain breeding age and will produce adult color in 3-5 weeks but usually take a few months to develop full color depth & intensity. Females can usually produce small fry drops at about 8 weeks.
How many fry do Endlers have?
Male Endlers will perform a 'dance' before breeding unlike guppies. Once mated, gestation takes between 23 and 24 days. A single female will produce broods of between 5 and 25 fry with 15 being about average.
Do Endlers livebearers need a heater?
Endler guppies come from tropical climates and as such, they need their aquarium water to be maintained between 72°F and 82°F (22°C and 28°C). Unless the ambient temperature of the room their aquarium is in remains in that temperature region, then they will need a heater in their aquarium.
How many Endlers should be kept together?
How Many Endlers Should Be Kept Together? Ideally, you want to keep Endelrs either as a single specimen or in a group of 3 or more. Endler guppies are peaceful the majority of the time, but the males are very persistent breeders. If you keep one male with one female, he may well literally harass her to death.
How many Endlers are in a 55 gallon?
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Are guppies and Endlers the same thing?
The most prominent difference between the species is size. Guppies are generally much larger than Endlers. Guppy females can grow to about 2.5 inches (6.35cm)long whereas the Endler females only reach around 1.8 inches (4.57cm).
Do mother guppies eat their babies?
Why do guppies eat their babies? Guppies display a behavior known as filial cannibalism which results in an adult animal eating her own babies immediately after birth. Guppies show no parental care for their fry and do not distinguish their own offspring from any other fry in the vicinity.
How many babies do Endlers Livebearers have?
Male Endlers will perform a 'dance' before breeding unlike guppies. Once mated, gestation takes between 23 and 24 days. A single female will produce broods of between 5 and 25 fry with 15 being about average.
Are guppies and Endlers the same thing?
The most prominent difference between the species is size. Guppies are generally much larger than Endlers. Guppy females can grow to about 2.5 inches (6.35cm)long whereas the Endler females only reach around 1.8 inches (4.57cm).
How long do Endler guppies live?
between two and three yearsLifespan. The average Endler's livebearer lifespan is between two and three years. In many cases, females will live shorter lives than males.
Origin and Taxonomy of Endlers
The Endler’s livebearer is known by the binomial name Poecilia wingei. This colored small fish species was first collected from Laguna de Patos, Cumana in north-eastern Venezuela by Franklyn F. Bond in 1937.
Habitat of Endlers
Endlers are native to Paria Peninsula, Venezuela. They inhabit freshwater lagoons and connected streams within the country, huge populations occur in the Campoma and Buena Vista lagoons, Carúpano in north-eastern Venezuela.
Endlers and Hybridized Strains
Endlers are classified to distinguish between pure and hybridized strains.
Difference Between Endlers and Guppies
The Endler’s guppy (Poecilia wingei) is closely related to the Common guppy (Poecilia reticulata). Although it can be very hard to see the difference between Endlers and Fancy guppy, they are still not exactly the same.
Endlers Behaviour
Endler’s livebearers are extremely active, they love swimming and exploring various areas of an aquarium.
Feeding Endlers
Endlers are omnivorous, and they often consume algae, biofilm, small insects, and plant matter in their natural habitat. Hence, they will benefit hugely from a varied diet of plant and animal matter while in captivity.
Tank Requirements and Water Parameters
This is a very small fish species, hence, it can be housed even in the small tanks. However, if you plan on keeping a group of about 5 Endlers, a 10 gallon (40 L) tank is recommended.
Anthony Active Member
I always describe what I do as "powdered flake", specifically spirulina. Spirulina is high is protein which is excellent for the fry. Put some spirulina into a ziplock baggy and crush it between your fingers until you cannot get it any smaller. The adults will eat it as well.
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I feed all, adults and fry, of my endlers crushed flake. To me with the endlers being so tiny it is easier for them to eat crushed than the larger flakes.
NoctuVide Thread Starter Member
I ended up picking up some hikari first bites today. I moved most of the fry to a fry net (plastic cube with a net around it) so that the other fish (including the mother) wouldn't eat them. I found a total of about 7. Two ended up dieing, but the others are doing well and swimming all around the net.
Feeding Endlers Live Food
Because Endlers will eat just about anything we don’t feel it is necessary to feed them live food however they may provide some additional benefits not found in other foods. Some live foods such as cyclops or bloodworms or even Brine Shrimp may have the potential to carry parasites or diseases that may be harmful to Endlers.
Overfeeding Endlers
You should only feed your Endlers as much food as they will eat in 1-2 minutes. These little guys act like they are always starving and it can be tempting to overfeed them. Overfeeding Endlers can result in an ammonia spike which can be fatal Endlers and other fish.
Feeding Endlers While On Vacation
Fortunately Endlers have a tendency towards grazing and love to poke around for algae and other tidbits that may be found in their aquarium. Allowing healthy Endlers to go without food for a day or two does no harm to them and is likely to be beneficial. In fact we find that they do extremely well if they go without food one day per week.
Tank Setup
This setup is optimal for rearing young fish, whether they are livebearers or egg-layers. It requires no substrate and no decorations. All you need is a heater, a filter, and some moss or other plants for the fry to hide in. I am using a 20 gallon "long" size tank, which is shorter vertically and longer horizontally than a typical 20 gallon "high".
Filtration
I'm using a Bacto-Surge sponge filter Opens in a new window in this fry tank. A sponge filter is by far the best type to use in a tank with very young fish. Hang-on-back and canister filters have intakes that will suck up and kill newborn fry.
Bare Bottom
Although you could put gravel into a tank you are using to raise fry, it is much better to run a bare bottom tank. I painted the back and bottom of this tank using black acrylic paint. The bare bottom allows you to easily vacuum out uneaten food and waste to maintain high water quality for the young fish.
Plants
Plants, such as guppy grass or java moss, provide the fry (or eggs) with a place to hide from their parents, who will often eat their own young. Additionally, plants provide fry with a high surface area to graze on infusoria, which are minute aquatic creatures such as ciliates , euglenoids , protozoa, and unicellular algae.
Feeding The Fry
I feed newly hatched brine shrimp to all of my young fish. Brine shrimp are cheap to produce and can be hatched from eggs Opens in a new window in 36 hours. They are small enough for newborn Endlers and Guppies to eat, high in protein, and irresistible to most fish.
Update: Endler Fry Tank 5 Months Later
After setting this tank up I added dwarf water lettuce which has spread to cover most of the surface. The java moss has more than tripled in size and now hosts a colony of blue dream shrimp in addition to multiple generations of Yellow Tiger Endlers.
ineke
Wonderful lucky you were there to save the babies. Now you know why you can't keep fish in with shrimp anything small enough to fit in their mouth get s eaten. Welcome to the MTS club:victorious:
Squiggle
Congrats Garny, good save with the fry :encouragement: I've never experienced mine eating their fry, maybe mine are too well fed, lol
Squiggle
I lost the adult male I had, literally lost it, couldn't find a trace of him anywhere & he was holding before he disappeared, so I got four more fry & at least one of them has started to show male colours, I'm going to put him with the adult female soon & hopefully another one will colour up when he's gone :victorious:
CNgo2006
Channoides are nice but they are tooo easy to breed (once they start to breed there is no stopping them) I ended up with over 100 fry in few months (3m 2f) at times the male would go hold a couple rounds without eating (as soon as fry are released they have another batch of eggs in mouth) as they are moothbrooders, I have to seperate them for some RR and even then the girls try to spit eggs through the breeder net! As for wilds I would have to say Macrostomas rule!.
Garnelchen
Remember this quote "too late' date=' you're already on the dark side"? So yeah... [/quote']
ineke
Squiggle I have behaved myself for days now. It's been hard but I've done it:triumphant:
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Found my first dead shrimp. Looks like a failed molt. Is this an isolated issue?
Origin and Taxonomy of Endlers
Habitat of Endlers
Description of Endlers. Gender Difference
Endlers and Hybridized strains.
Difference Between Endlers and Guppies
Endlers Behaviour
Feeding Endlers
- Endlers are omnivorous, and they often consume algae, biofilm,small insects, and plant matter in their natural habitat. Hence, they will benefit hugely from a varied diet of plant and animal matter while in captivity. Endlers are not picky eaters, they can be fed: 1. frozen or live foods, 2. high-quality fish pellets, 3. flake food, 4. portions of ...
Tank Requirements and Water Parameters
Care and Maintenance
Mating Behavior