For small fishes of the guppy the simple aquarium with water of room temperature which costs in the lit place is necessary. Several liters of water have to fall on each small fish. The guppy needs to feed twice a day.
Small fishes of the guppy won popularity at the beginning aquarians thanks to the unpretentiousness. Their contents does not require the specific equipment, like filters and temperature regulators. The guppy and a big aquarium is not necessary and if not to get in it too many small fishes, then it is possible to refuse also the aerator. Even the child can look after the guppy.
What has to be an aquarium for the guppy
Capacity of an aquarium should be counted, that the male for comfort needs one liter of water, and a female two. But it is better if about three liters of water are allocated for each small fish. Water in an aquarium has to be room temperature and make 24 wasps. Fluctuations from 18 to 30 wasps are admissible.
Lighting is not too important for life of the guppy, but if you want your small fishes to have bright coloring, it is necessary to put their aquarium on the lit place. You do not lodge in an aquarium with the guppy of predatory fishes. Guppies are absolutely defenseless against them.
What water and forage are necessary for the guppy
Guppy very not choosy small fishes. In food quality they will suit both a live, and dry feed which is on sale in specialized shops. Young fishes can be fed with an egg yolk, cheese and powdered milk. At sufficient lighting in an aquarium filar seaweed which diversify the menu of your small fishes are formed. It is necessary to feed the guppy twice a day. At the same time you watch that there was no surplus of a forage left not to pollute an aquarium. If in five minutes of sterns not all is eaten, it needs to be removed from an aquarium. Water in an aquarium needs to be changed gradually every day, but it is allowed to change it once a week approximately for a third.
What is necessary for the guppy to breed
Guppies treat viviparous fishes. Instead of throwing of caviar they bring the created whitebaits who since the first moments of the life can float and eat into the world. That guppies began to breed, it is necessary to increase slightly water temperature in an aquarium and to reduce its rigidity. But small fishes can breed also without additional stimulation. Pregnancy of a female lasts about twenty five days. At this time her paunch becomes angular, near an anus the dark stain appears. The female can make whitebaits to seven times after one pairing. Guppies can eat the posterity therefore whitebaits until they grow up, need to be moved away in separate capacity or to lodge in the general aquarium dense seaweed in which the young growth will be able to hide.