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• Tips
• Warnings
• What do you need

1 Buy an aquarium with a bottom filter of 40 liters or more.

2 Buy a quarantine tank. It should be at least 20 liters in volume, but preferably 40 liters or more. If any fish gets sick, then you can plant them in this aquarium for treatment. Or it can be used to breed guppies.

3 Fill your tanks with water. Use a dechlorinating agent or let the water sit for a week to evaporate the chlorine before the fish are added to the tank.

4 Change 25% of the water weekly by siphoning contaminants from the bottom of the aquarium.

5 Treat the water you add to the aquarium with a dechlorinating agent.

6 Maintain the temperature in the aquarium between 24-26.7 degrees Celsius.

7 Keep the backlight on for 8-12 hours a day. Consider purchasing a backlight timer.

8 When adding fish to the aquarium, let the sealed bags of fish float on the surface of the aquarium for about 15 minutes. Do not pour the water from the bags into the aquarium. Catch the fish with a net and quickly transfer it to the aquarium. Wait for the fish to come out of the net and repeat the procedure with the next fish.

• Note: Do not overpopulate the tank, it is acceptable to keep 1 adult guppy for every 4 liters of water.
• Grow fry in separate tanks or in a main tank with a divider. If you keep the parents and fry together, the parents will eat them.

9 Feed your fish a flake food, but supplement the diet with treats made from ice creams, fresh and frozen foods such as bloodworms, tubifex, and brine shrimp at least once a week.

Tips

• If you have fry, use plants or a trap in the aquarium so that the fry can take refuge.
• Guppy fry should be fed with crushed tropical fish flakes until they are 1 inch (2.5 cm) tall.
• Guppies do not grow large, so try to keep them with other small fish such as mollies and swordtails to avoid prey.
• If you keep them with mollies and Endler's guppies, then interspecific crossing can occur.
• Ordinary fish flakes are suitable as feed for fry. As mentioned above, push them apart. Pour some into a small container, add a little clean warm water and stir. Let cool.
• Guppies can be very sensitive, so check the water quality weekly. Find information on how to set up a fish-free cycle in an aquarium using ammonia.
• If you have a lot of guppies, you need a very large aquarium.

Warnings

• Always keep an eye on the quality of the water, it is the main cause of fish death.
• Always have at least two females per male (or only females, or only males). If the male has only one female, then she will be tortured by the male's constant attempts to mate with her and, in the end, will die.
• Never keep adult fish and fry together as the fry will be eaten.
• Do not mix large, predatory and aggressive fish with guppies.

What do you need

• 40 liter aquarium
• 20 liter aquarium (for quarantine)
• Guppy
• Decorations for the aquarium
• Aquarium water heater
• Filter
• Dechlorinating agent for water