Guppy birthing tanks??

Question

could someone please tell me how much they are and how they work

Answer 1

A ten gallon take is no more than 8-10 dollars. Plus all the sub-strait and maybe a fake plant or two and your looking at about 25 to 30 bucks assuming you already have you guppy in a tank. You will need to put the mother back into that tank when she is done giving birth to avoid her eating the young. Good Luck

Answer 2

Do you mean a clip-on nursery or an actual tank?

If you mean a clip-on nursery / breeder trap, they can range from around $10 - $30. I would suggest a nursery big enough for your guppy to freely swim around. You can get some which cages off your fish from the centre of the nursery, so the babies can swim through the gaps and be free of hungry mum. However, I do not recommend this. It restricts the guppy's swimming space and if she becomes depressed or stressed enough she can miscarriage or abort her litter, and has a higher percentage of crawlies and deformities. By the time you find out she's birthed and removed her from the nursery, she will have only eaten one or two babies, or none.

After about two weeks of gestation (pregnancy) put her in the nursery with a few remnants of her home ie. a small plastic plant, a favorite rock or toy, etc. Put in something to let her hide behind and feel secure in. She won't birth properly if she is scared or stressed. After about a week she should give birth. Don't move her or shove your face up to the glass while she's birthing - this'll stress her out like crazy and she'll abort. After you are sure she has finished birthing, remove her and put her back home.

Good luck =)

Edit:

In response to Micky (question below me) a 10 gallon tank costs a heck of a lot more than $10. I bought a 2.5 gallon for about $25, and my 8.5 gallon tank was $100. Plus you have to include all the extra espenses such as a heater ($30+), a filter ($20+), substrate ($15+), plastic plants* ($30-$50) and other commodities, such as rocks, houses, ornaments, etc. Overall, for a 10 gallon tank, you are looking at around $250. (Please note: $250 in Australian dollars. As of 27th August, 250$AUD was 215$USD or 146$EUR.)

* From my personal experience, real plants have just been one huge death trap. While many people buy plants and they thrive and nourish the tank, others wipe out entire fish populations. I excitedly bought several plants for my new fish tank about a year ago. For a few weeks, the plants provided refuge for my healthy, happy fish. Then, one day a plant died. Toxins flooded the water and fish started coming down with mysterious ailments. I threw the plant out, and only a few fatalies occured. Worried it would happen again, I went out and bought plant food. Every day I would administer the right dosage. But alas, another died. And then another. Even my futile attempts to remove all of the remaining plants and little decaying plant parts caught in every nook and cranny and piece of gravel, and change the water were not enough. Soon the tank was full of wretching, dying, poisoned fish. In a desperate bid, I threw my fish into a bucket of tap water (our city water has very little chlorine) but it was too late. I watched hopelessly as one after another, they sank lifelessly to the bottom. So now I steer well clear of real plants.