Small fishes of the guppy - ideal option for the beginning aquarian. They are unpretentious, eat the most various forage with pleasure and are not too exacting to conditions of keeping. Males of the guppy are very beautiful - they differ in bright and long tails, and their little bodies are covered with multi-colored spots. The coloring of these small fishes is very various. One of interesting features of the guppy is that it is viviparous small fishes. They do not lay caviar, and at once bring the created whitebaits into the world.
It is required to you
- - aquarium with a capacity of 3-4 liters;
- - separate smaller capacity for cultivation of whitebaits;
- - couple of guppy;
- - gravel for soil creation;
- - several water plants;
- - forage for fishes, live or dry;
- - net for change of fishes.
Instruction
1. The maintenance of couple of small fishes will require capacity on 3-4 liters as the guppy is not required high content of oxygen in water. As soil it is possible to use usual gravel, but will better take care of that soil was gathered from the eco-friendly place. Do not forget to wash out carefully gravel and to boil it within 15-20 minutes for disinfection. If you want to add an aquarium interior with snags and big stones, put them on a bottom before gravel falling asleep. Plant plants in soil before fill an aquarium with water.
2. Place one-two heterosexual couples of small fishes in an aquarium. Females and males of the guppy rather strongly differ from each other: the female is larger than a male, she has more modest short tail and a greenish-gray color. It is necessary to feed small fishes once a day. They eat a dry feed with pleasure, such as gammarus or a live forage - for example, a crank. A crank it is necessary to give at the rate of 1-5 worms on one small fish, depending on the size of small fishes.
3. You watch the sizes of a paunch of females of the guppy: as soon as it begins to increase, by means of a net catch and transplant a small fish in a separate vessel with water and plants. Water temperature in this vessel has to be 1-2 degrees higher, than in the general aquarium. Wait until the guppy brings posterity into the world. Depending on age of a female, the number of her whitebaits for one dung hesitates from 10 to 100 pieces. The small fish is more senior, the more at her can will be born whitebaits. Return a female to the general aquarium - her care will not be required to whitebaits. Little guppies let will remain for 2-3 weeks separately from other fishes, otherwise adult individuals can take them for a live forage.
4. Whitebaits of the guppy grow very quickly: in three months they will reach a maturity. Males cease to grow, having reached this age, but with everyone lived month become brighter and more beautiful, at them fins and tails continue to be formed. Full blossoming of beauty of a male of the guppy happens by a year. Grow at Samochki only in the sizes. Until whitebaits reach the sizes of adult small fishes, better to feed them with a dry feed, having carefully pounded it between fingers or "live dust".
5. If you do not plan to distribute or sell young small fishes, take care of acquisition of an aquarium of bigger volume that to small fishes it was not close. Under good conditions of the guppy breed approximately once a month.