Aquarium fishes of guppies please owners with complaisant character and effective appearance, and keeping them in an apartment or house care is not burdensome.
Conditions of detention
The maintenance and care of guppies at home does not imply strict monitoring of the temperature regime, stiffness and oxygen saturation of water . But there are optimal values of the parameters, in which the fish feel themselves in the native element. By the way, they come from Latin American water bodies. Under adverse conditions, fish can survive, but development will be suspended. A voluminous aquarium should allow guppies to freely frolic, and this requires 1.5 liters of liquid medium per individual.
Do not be fooled by the miniature size of the fish: they are able to quickly stir up the water with waste products. The pollution of the habitat threatens the diseases of the animals, and bringing the ecosystem into proper form will require a filtration system or a weekly procedure for partial water replacement of approximately 10% weekly.
The content of aquarium guppies will be most favorable if you follow the rules of care. They are simple, but the standard assumes regularity and consistency in several directions:
- Acidity. Acidity in 6.7 pH is most useful for fish and will allow developing in accordance with the program laid down by nature, producing offspring.
- Rigidity. Hardness is most acceptable within 4-10 ° dH, which corresponds to the average softness of the aquatic environment.
- Lighting. It is desirable to have sunlight in the daytime, but not more than 12 hours. Permanent artificial lighting is harmful to fish, they grow dim and lose their ability to reproduce.
- Priming. Guppies are unpretentious to the quality of the soil , so it is selected in accordance with the algae, which will decorate the aquarium, but with an eye for rapid and effective cleaning. Taking into account the presence of salts in order not to excessively increase the acidity of the liquid medium.
- Seaweed. Care for guppies will be more fruitful if among the seaweed there will be Indian fern. Especially vegetation is relevant when the offspring appear. Fry should have a place where they hide from individuals who tend to treat them as food.
- Temperature. Resistant fishes are able to survive at a temperature of 4 degrees, but you do not need to test fate, it is more merciful to keep this indicator within the limits of 26-28 degrees Celsius.
- Feed. Guppies are not particularly whimsical in food, and their omnivores are comparable to voracity, which may not do them good, since overeating is fraught with diseases. Therefore, overfeeding is undesirable. Food is better to buy, to increase the variety of substances necessary for the body. It is desirable to expand the diet by intermingling the flocculent food for tropical fish with small shrimps, bloodworms, pea peas and finely chopped lettuce leaves.
Reproduction
The content of viviparous guppy fish in the aquarium during breeding requires special methods of care, since individuals are prone to cannibalism. It must be noted that the anal zone turned red and there was a stain. The best way to take care of the fry is to move them to a free tank.
The maintenance and care of young fish of guppies during reproduction is especially scrupulous at the initial stage of development. Children do not have immunity to the environment, which is why the previously listed most acceptable conditions for acidity and stiffness of the habitat are especially carefully monitored. Feed the fry with dry food several times a day. And when the fish grow to about 2 cm, they are ready for life in the aquarium, where they should be sent.