Guppies are literally the most easy fish to breed for multiple reasons:

1) They don’t require any special conditions (though if you want healthy fish there are some things I would suggest, more on that later.)

2) These are fairly hardy, peaceful, and easy to care for fish.

3) Raising the fry is a piece of cake. The hardest part is making sure the parents don’t eat their own children.

4) Guppies can be found in any aquatic pet store because they’re one of the most popular fish in the world.

5) They are small fish, which means you don’t need a large tank to house a small school of them. Males on average are 1.5 – 3.5 cm (0.6 – 1.4 inches) while females are 3 – 6 cm (1.2 – 2.4 inches) long.

6) They come in a limitless range of shapes, colours, patterns, and finnage types. Some of my favourite guppy patterns are leopard and king cobra/snakeskin guppies, both of which come in many colours.

7) Guppies are livebearers, so you don’t need to go through the special hassle of waiting for eggs to hatch. The females are often already pregnant when you get them from the pet store (which may not be a good thing if you’re trying to breed very selectively) and it’s fun watching little tiny fish pop into their underwater world. I once asked for a pregnant guppy at the pet store for my first time raising fry, and the next day I had to spend an hour netting about 30 baby fish out of my community tank!

8) They can adapt to a wide variety of foods, such as flake, frozen, live food and even veggies.

9) As far as fish goes, these are inexpensive. Females are often extremely cheap and despite the males fancy finnage and colourful bodies they are one of the most affordable fish in the industry, probably due to their ease of breeding!

10)You can see when the female is pregnant. It’s even easy to tell when she’s getting close to having her babies because of the dark gravid spot below her anal fin. Since she continues to get fatter as she’s further along (just like human women!) it helps you to know when to separate her from her tankmates to give birth.

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