General Specifications
Latin Name: Poecilia reticulata
Geographic Origin: Venezuela, Barbados, Trinidad, Guyana and
northern Brazil as well as many Caribbean Island.
Living Area: They can live in all kinds of habitat. Some
populations will survive in brackish water.
Nutrition Format: Both carnivores and herbivores. Their primarily
nutrition is insect in nature but accepts all kinds of feed those in the
aquarium environment.
Behavior: Peaceful.
Behavior to Their Type: Peaceful
Swimming Level: Intermediate - Surface
Gender Discrimination: Females are larger. Rear fins of males are
much larger and flashy. There is no gonopod of female.
Reproduction
They are livebearer, it is easy breeding and rearing of offspring.
Pregnancy understanded from the gravid spot behind the anal fin, its color turn
dark.They can breed around 5-100 and pregnancy can last between 4-6 weeks. The
female can store sperm in the fallopian tube for a long time so the female can
generate offspring without men ever period of 6 months.
Living Medium
Temperature: 17 ° C - 28 ° C
Maximum Sizes: Men 4cm, females 6 cm.
Minimum Aquarium Capacity: 40 liters
Water Hardness: 7-19 ° dH (soft - very hard)
pH: 7.0 - 8.5
General Comments: With the peacefull nature of guppies and
easy reproduction this fish come in to mind when some one said aquarium. By the
natural selection a lot of different colored and shaped guppies are produced. The
fish reach sexual maturity when they are 3 months old. They like planted tanks
where the water over the plants. They live in a peace with other livebearers
like rasbora, corydoras, small loricariid and tetra. To control mosquito larvae
they are produced and released in most of third world country.
