Millions of fish grow up, this is how the explosion happened

Guppy is a special existence in the ornamental fish world. It is small in size, bright in color, has many strains, has a large space for transformation, and has strong reproductive ability, which not only meets its ornamental quality as an ornamental fish, but also makes it easy to experience the sense of accomplishment in the game from its breeding. When such a small fish has better disease resistance, it meets the conditions for becoming a hot item.

What is the experience of keeping a tank of guppies? After the baby fish comes out of the mother's stomach, it needs to be separated from the mother to avoid being eaten. For the first two weeks of their life in the breeding tank, they are fed egg yolk and brine shrimp. These nutritious foods can help them grow little by little from the size of soybeans. By the time they can leave the breeding tank, it is already 15 days later. Then these little guys can reach about 1.5cm, which is almost the length of a medium button.

Generally speaking, the water quality of the breeding tank is basically the same as that of the main tank, but the temperature may be a little higher than that of the main tank. In order to avoid unnecessary loss caused by obvious temperature difference, you can do a simple overheating and overwatering.

Guppies are tropical fish. It is more appropriate to keep the temperature of the fish tank at about 25°C. The pH can be between 6.5-7.5, and the hardness can be between 10-15. Keep the light in the fish tank for 2 hours or more, which is helpful for color development.

If there is no problem with the living environment, you can usually see the hair color of small fish in about a month. Male fish color first, female fish color later. And with the passage of time, the body color difference between male fish and female fish will become more and more obvious. Of course, if you don’t want to distinguish male and female ornamental fish only by body color, there are other ways to identify them.

First, the difference between the two can be seen from the reproductive organs. Guppies have fins behind the anus, and the fins have pointed and round heads. The pointed one is the male fish, and the rounded one is the female fish.

Secondly, the state of fetal spots can also distinguish male and female guppies. If the front part of the guppy's anal fin feels transparent, it can be judged to be a female fish, otherwise it is a male fish.

As time goes by, the small fish grows slowly, and it takes about two months to be regarded as sub-cheng. Breeding takes place in about three months. There will not be too many small fish in the first few breedings, and a dozen small fish may be born in one breeding. Of course, not all of these small fish survived, some were stillborn, and some were deformed after birth. After breeding three or four times, the reproductive ability of guppies will gradually increase, from a dozen small fish at a time to dozens of small fish.

So after three or four months, the offspring finally began to have the ability to reproduce, and it took 21-25 days from mating to reproduction. During this period, the belly of the female fish will become bigger and bigger, and black spots will appear in the later stage. The female fish should be isolated before breeding, and slowly wait for the baby fish to be born. And after the baby fish is born, the mother fish must be fished out to prevent the mother fish from eating the baby fish.

It is best not to put the female fish out of the fish directly back into the main tank, but to raise them in a temporary tank for two days to adjust the state. Because once the female fish enters the tank, the male fish will continue to chase the female fish. We can also judge the reproductive cycle of guppies from this, which is basically once a month. Of course, if the temperature is low or the water quality fluctuates greatly, it will affect the reproductive cycle of guppies.

Guppies do not become adults until they are 6 months old. Adult peacocks can reach a maximum length of 6 centimeters, and most of them can live for about two years. However, due to some complicated factors, some can only live for a little more than a year before dying. .

Guppies spend most of their lives breeding. Its breeding cycle is short, its efficiency is high, its quantity is large, and it may explode in the later stage. Aquarists who deeply feel its terrifying reproductive ability chose a domineering name for it: million fish.

This is the guppy, which is raised in a tank and devotes its life to reproduction. Although there are many descendants, they cannot escape the short-lived nature inherited from the killifish family. When it dies suddenly and leaves a tank full of offspring, will someone be sad for it, like when the arhat fish and arowana die, is it sad?

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