Fish facts🐠🐟:

Do you know about ornamental fishes?

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guppy fish 😘

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Guppies come in various colors and have various fin shapes. Not by accident, guppy fish is also known as rainbow fish
In the wild, only male guppies are colored, and female guppies are pale, generally duller in color.
Guppy fish have extremely vibrant colors and beautiful fin shapes.
Female guppies have colored tail and dorsal fins, while their body is still dull.

Where they adapt🤔

Theguppy fish is highly adaptable. They can thrive in many different water conditions. Although they origin from South America, today guppies can be found all over the world in tropical and subtropical waters, and in home aquariums

Guppies are omnivore. This means, they will eat anything that is in the water and can fit in their mouth. In the wild guppy fish eat various insects, algae and larvae.
In captivity guppies are feed with vegetable flakes, spirulina and algae tablets, brine shrimps, micro-worms and other food such as egg yolk and beef heart

Malaria is still a big problem in the world countries. To combat malaria and reduce mosquitoes, guppies have been introduced in numerous rivers and lakes across Asia and Africa. The size of a mosquito larva is 2mm (0.1 inch), which fits perfectly in the mouth of a guppy fish.

In India, guppies have been used to test drinking water.🤔🧐=}
The population started using guppy fish to test their drinking water. They throw the fish into the well and checked few days later. If the fish survived, the water was good for drinking.

For the first time, guppies were described by Wilhelm Peters in 1859 in Venezuela, under the scientific name “Poecilia reticulata”. In 1861, De Filippi described the same fish as “Lebistes poecilioides” in Barbados.
Although it was not the first official discovery, the guppy fish was named after Robert John Lechmere Guppy, the British naturalist and zoologist, who discovered this fish in Trinidad in 1866 describing it under the scientific name “Poecilia reticulata”.

Guppies are also known as million fish. The name came from their ability of reproduction in a very short period of time, giving birth to numerous offspring at once.
Unlike other fish, guppies do not lay eggs. They mate and female guppies give birth to live fry, which are capable to swim and eat from the first second of their life.
In captivity, female guppies reach sexual maturity at around 3 months. Around 30 days after mating, they will drop 20-60 fry. This process repeats all year around, every 30 days. In some rare cases, guppies can give birth to 100-120 fry.
Guppy fish has an average lifespan of 1-3 years. In some rare cases guppies can live up to 5 years.
Guppies are a relative small fish. Female guppies can reach up to 1.5 inches, while male guppies only 1.2 inches.
Cannibalism is the right word to describe that guppies will eat their fry. 🧐🧐🧐🧐If you are trying to breed guppies and want to save as many guppy fry as possible, you should provide them with enough hiding spaces or separate the pregnant female guppy from the rest.
Great Tank Mate :a great for a community fish, keeping them together with other peaceful fish such as swordtails, platies, molies, tetras, plecos or cory fish.
Survive Believe without feeding🤔🤔🤔🤔 guppy fish can survive in a fish tank for week, without feeding. If you prepare a shorter vacation, don’t have to worry about feeding of your fish, because even after 2 weeks without feeding them, they will be fine.🤗