Guppies

If anyone out there is familiar with guppies you know then the reason they have the nickname of the millions fish. I did an experiment over last winter in my garage. I had 4 ten gallon aquariums setup in the garage. I went out and purchased one male and four female fancy tail guppies. I wanted to observe the re production of these beautiful fish. First I put all five fish in one of the 10 gallon tanks. In about a weeks time I noticed about 6 little guppies swimming around the tank. Guppies are a live bearing fish. I watched for the next couple of days and soon the 6 fish disappeared. I figured that the adult fish may of ate them so I added some live plants for cover for the young fish . When I added the plants I also did a partial water change in the tank. The very next day I spotted about twenty guppy fry swimming in the tank. They stayed protected in the dense cover and over a period of a week there were over a fifty. When they got to the point of about a week and a half to two weeks old they stared to venture out in the open. When this happened their numbers stared to drop.So to solve this problem I transferred the adults to another tank and began the process again while at the same time leaving the guppy fry in the original tank. They again populated the new tank and I transferred them yet again into the third tank. I kept repeating this process until the fourth tank was filled with fry. By the time it was ready to take them out of the fourth tank the guppy fry that was in the first tank were becoming young adults. I went ahead an set up a 50 gallon tank and started to put the young adults into it. When it was all said and done the five original guppies I started with grew into roughly 250 adult guppies in about four months. Now that is what I call propagating the species.