Fancy Guppies Make Colorful Pets For Your Aquarium

Executive summary about Aquarium Pets by Lee Dobbins

aquarium fishes

As with many animal species, the male Fancy Guppies are more beautiful than the female Fancy Guppies. These fish look most beautiful in aquariums when you have several of them to swim together.

Fancy Guppies like warmer aquarium waters. You should keep your temperature set between 78 and 82 degrees Fahrenheit, and consider adding a tablespoon of aquarium salt per 5 gallons of water in the tank.

While Fancy Guppies can survive on just floating flake food and freeze dried bloodworms, they will become stronger and hardier if fed some frozen brine shrimp or Black Worms from time to time.

When you put Fancy Guppies into your aquarium, you’ll want to keep twice as many females as male Fancy Guppies. You can add other fish that are compatible, including Small Tetras (Neons), Honey Gourami, Cory Catfish, Glass Fish, African Dwarf Frogs and Ghost Shrimp.

Many stores will try to sell Mollies and Guppies together, but most of the larger Mollies will attack Guppies and are not really compatible in an aquarium together. Guppies should be placed into aquariums with smaller tank mates.

Fancy Guppies have a short lifespan of about 3 years. The males grow to be about 2″, and females will grow a little longer at an average of 2.5″ long.

Breeding Fish - How To Breed Your Aquarium Pets

Executive summary about Aquarium Pets by Abhishek Agarwal

tetra fish

There are a variety of tetra fish for aquariums, though the technique of caring for these species of fish are the same you must develop a knack of handling these delicate inmates of your aquarium. The Paracheirodon Axelrodi (Cardinal Tetra) is a common variety of tetra found in house aquariums around the world. Another type of breeding fish is the ‘Spraying Characin, biologically known as the Opella Amoldi. Then you have the Copeina Guttata, also known as the Red-Spotted Copeina.

Red-Spotted Copeina

Breeding Habits:

The Spraying Charcin will spray the surface of hanging leaves or may spawn on the bottom of the aquarium. These variety of fish usually like to breed in smaller tanks with few plants. These fish only produce about 15 eggs in each spawn and will continue until they have spawned about 100 eggs. You should know how to maintain the eggs in the tank to get yourself good numbers of fish. Once the spawning process is complete remove the females from the small tank. It is the male fish that takes care of the eggs. If you notice the male fish eating the eggs remove him from the tank as well.

The Amoldi fish pair with the females and mate the male is known by its red dotted flank. The female will lay about 300 eggs in the gravel of the tank after which you should remove her from the tank. and once the eggs hatch you should also remove the male as well.

As you can see there is a common observation to the breeding of the fish. The removal of the females from the tank after spawning and then observing the males who have to be removed as well after the eggs hatch or if they begin to eat the eggs. Have an aerator that will circulate the water around the eggs without disturbing the eggs. This helps a great deal in hatching healthy fish in the tank.

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