SUCCESSFUL GROWING GUPPY FISH AND EARNING BIG PROFITS
Guppy fish came from Central America and South America in 1866, then entered Indonesia around 1920, guppies were dubbed the million fish that are easy to cultivate and breed fast. Because of the ease with which it is cultivated, guppies are one of the freshwater ornamental fish species that are often cultivated and have quite tempting economic value.
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| How to Cultivate Guppy Fish |
With the development of ornamental fish that is increasingly promising with the growth of its trade value above 14% per year, making this business opportunity bigger and expanding various types of fish such as albino, kumpay/slayer, and various mutation colors which are discussed in full in the book Success Cultivation. Freshwater Ornamental Fish.
HOW TO BREED GUPPY FISH CORRECTLY
If you are interested in cultivating guppies, you need to follow the steps and methods below.
1. Choose a good guppy broodstock
If you want to breed guppies, of course you need to breed brood fish so that the number of your fish cultivation increases. But for guppy fish, you need to focus on quality rather than quantity of fish, because guppies will sell well in the market if they have an attractive appearance.
Choosing a good broodstock is the first step, so you can mate the parent and produce good chicks. A good female guppy brood has a round body with a dull color and is passive in the water, female guppies tend to prefer to stay at the bottom and surface of the aquarium. While good male guppies have a brighter color than female guppies and are slimmer.
In order for you to get good guppy puppies, you need to choose a guppy breeder with the above characteristics and at least 4 months old. In addition to paying attention to the characteristics of a good guppy brood, you need to pay attention that the body of the fish does not have any blemishes or defects and that the guppies are healthy. The indicator of the success of guppy cultivation is the male guppy fish.
Each type of fish itself has a different technique for breeding. Therefore it requires skill and thoroughness. Check out various important information related to this in the book Cultivation of Freshwater Ornamental Fish.
2. Prepare a place for cultivating guppies
After choosing a good quality broodstock, the next step is to prepare a place for guppy fish cultivation, you can use the bucket as a place for guppy fish cultivation, you can also use an aquarium, aerator and aquatic plants.
The place has several functions, namely as a place to separate male and female brooders, as a spawning site, as a spawning ground, a place for hatching eggs and a place for nursery.
You can adjust the area and size of the guppy fish culture according to the number and needs of guppy fish, you need to pay attention to the situation and habitat density. Do not put too many fish and seeds so that the guppies can swim freely. You can use a variety of places with a minimum height of 30 cm.
3. Separating the female and male broodstock
You need to separate the female guppies from the male guppies before spawning in different places. In addition to separating the male and female guppies you will need to change the water every 1 to 3 days and only change the water about a third.
After separating the male and female fish, you still need to provide food regularly as usual, which is twice a day. Providing food regularly can produce healthy and good guppies during the spawning process.
4. Mating guppies
After separating the male and female broodstock and taking good care of them, you can breed or spawn the guppies. You can fill the cultivation area as a spawning container with clean water as high as 30 cm and then settle it for at least one day, so that the calving process is faster.
In the morning, you need to satisfy the female guppy into a place that already contains clean water. In the afternoon you can enter male guppies and spawn for 4 to 7 days.
Next, you can enter the female and male broodstock in a ratio of 5:1, you need to enter more male guppies than female guppies, during the spawning process into a place that can accommodate at least 30 guppies.
This spawning process needs to take approximately 3 to 4 weeks until the guppy embryo is born. You need to pay attention to the spawning process, because if you have seen a female guppy that has been fertilized you need to immediately remove the female guppy.
5. Guppy fish hatchling
After the spawning process is complete, you need to separate the fertilized brood and fill the water and complete the aeration in the place for the hatching process.
You need to place the guppies larvae carefully so as not to disturb the fish larvae. In addition you need to remove about one third of the water with clean water every 1 to 3 times a day.
6. Nursery of guppies
At the nursery stage, you need to put the guppies in an open place so that the guppies don't die quickly. In addition to the open, you need to place the container in an area exposed to sunlight so that the color of the guppy fish is formed.
In addition to placing in the open and exposed to sunlight, you need to provide some water plants as a place to shelter. You can put water hyacinth or hydrilla plants.
You need to provide appropriate feed during the nursery period. For puppies aged 5 days you can give infusoria, while for puppies older than 5 days you can give water fleas or tiny shrimp.
After a little adult, that is, the fish fry reach the age of 20 days, you can give silk worms or hair worms. You can find out the sex of the guppies after the fish are 20 days old.
Those are the six stages so that you can successfully raise guppies. You need to remember that ornamental fish cultivation and consumption fish have different priorities. For ornamental fish, you need to focus on the quality of fish compared to the quantity of fish, because ornamental fish will sell well if they have attractive and funny colors, body shapes.
These six stages are a short way that you can know to raise guppies.
If you are interested in cultivating guppies, you need to follow the steps and methods below.
1. Choose a good guppy broodstock
If you want to breed guppies, of course you need to breed brood fish so that the number of your fish cultivation increases. But for guppy fish, you need to focus on quality rather than quantity of fish, because guppies will sell well in the market if they have an attractive appearance.
Choosing a good broodstock is the first step, so you can mate the parent and produce good chicks. A good female guppy brood has a round body with a dull color and is passive in the water, female guppies tend to prefer to stay at the bottom and surface of the aquarium. While good male guppies have a brighter color than female guppies and are slimmer.
In order for you to get good guppy puppies, you need to choose a guppy breeder with the above characteristics and at least 4 months old. In addition to paying attention to the characteristics of a good guppy brood, you need to pay attention that the body of the fish does not have any blemishes or defects and that the guppies are healthy. The indicator of the success of guppy cultivation is the male guppy fish.
Each type of fish itself has a different technique for breeding. Therefore it requires skill and thoroughness. Check out various important information related to this in the book Cultivation of Freshwater Ornamental Fish.
2. Prepare a place for cultivating guppies
After choosing a good quality broodstock, the next step is to prepare a place for guppy fish cultivation, you can use the bucket as a place for guppy fish cultivation, you can also use an aquarium, aerator and aquatic plants.
The place has several functions, namely as a place to separate male and female brooders, as a spawning site, as a spawning ground, a place for hatching eggs and a place for nursery.
You can adjust the area and size of the guppy fish culture according to the number and needs of guppy fish, you need to pay attention to the situation and habitat density. Do not put too many fish and seeds so that the guppies can swim freely. You can use a variety of places with a minimum height of 30 cm.
3. Separating the female and male broodstock
You need to separate the female guppies from the male guppies before spawning in different places. In addition to separating the male and female guppies you will need to change the water every 1 to 3 days and only change the water about a third.
After separating the male and female fish, you still need to provide food regularly as usual, which is twice a day. Providing food regularly can produce healthy and good guppies during the spawning process.
4. Mating guppies
After separating the male and female broodstock and taking good care of them, you can breed or spawn the guppies. You can fill the cultivation area as a spawning container with clean water as high as 30 cm and then settle it for at least one day, so that the calving process is faster.
In the morning, you need to satisfy the female guppy into a place that already contains clean water. In the afternoon you can enter male guppies and spawn for 4 to 7 days.
Next, you can enter the female and male broodstock in a ratio of 5:1, you need to enter more male guppies than female guppies, during the spawning process into a place that can accommodate at least 30 guppies.
This spawning process needs to take approximately 3 to 4 weeks until the guppy embryo is born. You need to pay attention to the spawning process, because if you have seen a female guppy that has been fertilized you need to immediately remove the female guppy.
5. Guppy fish hatchling
After the spawning process is complete, you need to separate the fertilized brood and fill the water and complete the aeration in the place for the hatching process.
You need to place the guppies larvae carefully so as not to disturb the fish larvae. In addition you need to remove about one third of the water with clean water every 1 to 3 times a day.
6. Nursery of guppies
At the nursery stage, you need to put the guppies in an open place so that the guppies don't die quickly. In addition to the open, you need to place the container in an area exposed to sunlight so that the color of the guppy fish is formed.
In addition to placing in the open and exposed to sunlight, you need to provide some water plants as a place to shelter. You can put water hyacinth or hydrilla plants.
You need to provide appropriate feed during the nursery period. For puppies aged 5 days you can give infusoria, while for puppies older than 5 days you can give water fleas or tiny shrimp.
After a little adult, that is, the fish fry reach the age of 20 days, you can give silk worms or hair worms. You can find out the sex of the guppies after the fish are 20 days old.
Those are the six stages so that you can successfully raise guppies. You need to remember that ornamental fish cultivation and consumption fish have different priorities. For ornamental fish, you need to focus on the quality of fish compared to the quantity of fish, because ornamental fish will sell well if they have attractive and funny colors, body shapes.
These six stages are a short way that you can know to raise guppies.