Fish Profiles: Lyretail Guppy

Fish Profiles: Lyretail Guppy

Fish Profiles
Once established, Lyre Tail guppies can tolerate varying warm water conditions and hardness, the more they breed in your aquaria, the hardier to your fish tank conditions they become.
Fish Profiles: Blue Cobra Guppy

Fish Profiles: Blue Cobra Guppy

Fish Profiles
Cobra guppies come in a variety of colours and patterns, including on their tails, with blue being one of the most sought after and popular.
Classifying Fishes: Order Cyprinodontiformes

Classifying Fishes: Order Cyprinodontiformes

Cyprinodontiformes
The order Cyprinodontiformes contains the livebearers - fish that give birth to live fry rather than lay eggs, killifishes and a handful of other families.
OATA Care Guide: Guppies, Swordtails, Mollies & Platies

OATA Care Guide: Guppies, Swordtails, Mollies & Platies

Care Sheets

OATA produce a good range of free care sheets for coldwater, tropical freshwater and marine fish as well as for invertebrates, aquatic reptiles and plants. This group are known as livebearers because unusually for fish the females give birth to free swimming live fry (ovoviviparous) rather than laying eggs.

Can Guppy's breed without a male fish present?

Can Guppy's breed without a male fish present?

Guppy
Originating from South America, Guppies can be found in mountain streams as well as brackish rivers. Wild Guppies can be found around the world in places like Barbados, Trinidad, Singapore, Venezuela and the USA.
female guppies

Do Guppies change gender?

Guppy
The male Guppy is one of the most popular tropical fish. They are bright and colourful which really stands out in any aquarium. Originating from South America, Guppies can be found in mountain streams as well as brackish rivers.