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Poecilia Reticulata
Found By:- Peters, 1859
Where Found:- Trinidad, Guiana and Venezuela
Size:- male- 1 1/2 inch, female- 2 1/2 inch
Temperature Ranged:- 62 to 82F
pH:- 7.0 to 8.5
Food:- Omnivorous
My Comments:- The Fancy Guppy of today look nothing like it did, when it was first found in 1859. The male was very small and had very little color. The female was large but had no color.
Today you can get the Fancy Guppy in any color of the paint can. Some even have long flowing back fins. Some also have long swords to.
If left to it own means, the Guppy will have young about every month or when ever she feel like it.
If you know what to do, you can get the Guppy to have youngs every 21 days, just like clock work. I will not go into details on what you need to do, but I had done it for many years.
The Fancy Guppy can have around 200 youngs at a time. Usually they will have less. Usually the bigger the female, the more youngs she will have. I had some that had as low as 1 young to a spawn but then other would have as high as 200 youngs at the time. I had seen and own some Guppy that had over 100 plus young their very first spawn. The number of youngs that they have, seem to be base on how well they are care for, among other things.
I do not used these so-called ”breeding or spawning traps”. I do not like them. From what I had seen over the years, fish do not like them.
After the female Guppy have her youngs, I “DO NOT” move her. Why? She just had youngs and she do not feel good, so I will leave her be for a week or there about. Plus I had found that if you move her to soon, it may cause her to go hump-back. Plus by moving her to soon after giving birth may kill her. I have raise 1000′s of Fancy Guppys over the years.
What I had learned about tropical fish came from many years of keeping, raising and spawning them. If there is something I do need to know, I turn to tropical fish books, wrote by peoples that know what they are talking about. Now with that said, there is some fish books that not that good.
There is a lot of information on the internet but 50% is not right. I see a lot of very bad information and advice put on the net that is not true. When looking for information about tropical fish on the net, you need to be very carefull. There is a lot of good information on the net but you got to be very carefull, cause some of it is not right.
