Guppy Care

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CHRISTIE OWNES: Hi. My name is Christie and with I'm with Expert Village and I'm teaching you proper care of fish today and a little bit about the different types of fish. And now we're going to talk about a few more species of fish that are out on the fish market available, which are the fancy tail guppies that I have here in this few tanks. The fancy tail guppies are a fish that is sort of kind of the species-only fish that you can and cannot mix in with other fish. These fish I have separated out in five gallon tanks, mixed with the color categories with each color category. I do not want to intermix the platinum mosaics with the Endler guppies which I have in this tank. When I mix the two fish together, they will breed together giving me a mutt fish. This is something that you do not want in a guppy species. Guppies are live-bearer fish just like the gold dust mollies that can give birth anywhere between one to a hundred babies. And just like the female gold dust molly, usually the female guppy, if she's having fifty babies, doesn't make it past baby twenty-five. Sometimes you can have a female guppy that is giving birth and she will get a baby lodged inside of her birth canal. Sometimes you have to grab the fish and give her a little help along to get the one out that's stuck. If you don't, the fish and the rest of the babies die in this situation. And the guppy tanks I have here, this is a professional breeding setup that I have. In the first tank, I have the German metalheads, in this tank, which there is one male--two males to six females in this tank. The second tank I have the cobalt blue fish, which unfortunately, I had twenty fish in this tank. Unfortunately, as it happens with people that set up new tanks, this tank crashed, which I had a high ammonia and high nitrite spike and I lost the whole tank but one fish. And the tank next door to them have some purple delta-tailed guppies, which there is one male to three female. And the next tank that I have, there is a red delta-tailed guppies which are two males to six females. The guppies, on how you tell the difference between male and female, which I'll show you on the purple deltas, because the male is coming up and being friendly to us. The male has a long, flow top fin and a long pretty back dorsal fin or tail fin. This is the male. He's real pretty and flashy. The females, which are being these two, still have a long tail and a shorter top fin, but don't have the color that the males have. Some fish you can tell a male and female apart, some fish you can't. Guppies are very easy to tell male and female apart.

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