In their natural habitat guppies live in brackish and fresh water bodies. Aquarium fish guppies can be safely attributed to the most "convenient" aquarium fish. It is enough to observe only a few simple tricks for their maintenance and breeding. This type of fish does not require the creation of conditions as close as possible to their native habitat. Guppies have long become a domestic species of fish, and therefore care for them is somewhat simplified, because because of domestication, they have become more adapted to aquarium maintenance.
This species has a very large number of color variations - red guppies, multicolored, pastel, green, violet and mosaic. The deducing of a certain color of the fish is the result of more than one year of work. If you want to buy a fish of a clean line, it's best to contact proven and experienced breeders.
How to care for guppies?
There are many species of these small and motley fish. Some are so different in their color and appearance that you can take them for representatives of other species of fish. But the basic conditions for keeping guppies at home are approximately the same.
You can safely settle the guppies with any other species of fish, but on condition that these fish have a peaceful character.
What to feed the guppies? Feeding pets is preferable to a live feed, but in principle, guppies are rather unpretentious in food. Do not overfeed the fish. Guppies are very sloped to obesity and can easily lose their ability to reproduce.
If you have only a couple of fish, they can be settled in a three-liter jar. Aquarium fish guppies are completely unpretentious to the conditions of detention. It is not necessary to buy a large and expensive aquarium. Plants and primer for the aquarium can safely choose by looking, fish will adapt to any algae.
The temperature for a comfortable and quality fish should be about 25 ° C. At this temperature, you can start multiplying fish. In a guppy, the female is always larger than the male almost twice.
How are guppies born?
If you have created all the necessary conditions for a comfortable stay, you can soon expect the appearance of new fish. If the female guppy has become pregnant at least once, most likely, it will be repeated many times.
Before you take care of guppies and breed them, get enough aquariums. A female aquarium fish guppies for one litter can bring from 20 to 50 fry. And after a couple of months these fry will bring you another 20-50 descendants. The first pregnancy of the female can occur no earlier than it will reach two months of age. So the first six months you can simply enjoy the content and breeding of these fish, and then you need to look for where to attach the offspring. Immediately before birth, the abdomen of the female begins to acquire square outlines. Childbirth can last from a couple of hours to a whole day. These fish are not spawned with caviar, as are many other species, but fully formed fry.
During gestation, a black speck appears near the anal fin near the anal fin, after the birth it acquires a yellowish tinge. It is better to give birth in a rye, where there is a lot of vegetation. Thus, the fry can hide and save their lives. Natural selection is such that the most sluggish and slow female simply eats.
What to feed the guppy fry in the first hours and days of life? Feeding fry is one of the most critical processes, especially in the first week. Feed fry should only live food. It can be "live dust", micro-wool, rotifers. At night, it's best not to turn off the light in the aquarium.