Hey all! Hoping somebody can help me; I bought some shrimp earlier today and a couple of these fellas snuck into the bag without anybody noticing. Anyone know what they are? I want to make sure I take care of them :) thanks for any help!
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Thanks for that! Somehow, I didn’t even consider it might be a baby, I thought it might just be hella small, haha. Well, they seem to be hunting down the copepods for now so that’ll hopefully keep them going until I pick up some guppy food later. Cheers!
I guess guppy too
Whales have calves,
Cats have kittens,
Bears have cubs,
Bats have bittens,
Swans have cygnets,
Seals have puppies,
But guppies just have little guppies.
It could be a mosquito fish. They’re similar to guppies. They also give them to people for free. I don’t think it’s a guppy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquitofish
I caught some in a river and kept them. I thought they were guppies for years.
That’s a juvenile female.
Also, they tend to be aggressive. They’re also cannibalistic. They’re also NOT in Poeciliidae, but they do give live birth. They’re close though. They will kill fish from Poeciliidae, potentially with their penis (I’ll let you guys search that). Also they give birth like crazy.
They ate ANYTHING I put in the tank. Bottom feeders were fine.
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Oh wow, good eye! I managed to take a better photo of one the other day, looks a lot like that picture!
Saying that, here’s a picture of an endler guppy fry off Google:
Bloody things look the same! Haha
Looks like a guppy.
I agree with the other commenters. It looks like a juvenile guppy. I used to buy what was called “feeder guppies” for my painted turtle and they looked exactly like that. My turtle is too old and slow to catch them anymore so I now have a school of guppies cohabiting with him. After a couple of generations they start to develop more vibrant colors. Iridescent red and blue stripes and different patterns of dark dots. They look really pretty. They aren’t really picky eaters. Mine nibble at the turtle pellets and the school had been thing for about five years on just that. If you do want to keep a school going make sure there are lots of places for the fry to hide, they are live bearers and guppies are notorious for eating their own fry.
Looks like a livebearer, can’t really say further than that but I’m going with the guppy guessers.
