Fancy guppy: Feed the breed
Saturday, January 31st, 2009In keeping with the tradition of keeping the guests happy, good people continue the trend with other specie too. And if the guest is a Fancy Guppy lively staring at the owner through the aquarium sheets, treating them well becomes a treat of a passion for the owner as well.
The fish is a pot. It devours heavily and anything worth its digestive capacity. Yes, each specie has an inward and intuitive knowledge of what food suits its tastes and fancy Guppy is no exception. Left to us, the feeding should be at a very interesting rate.
The guppy fries or the baby guppies should be first provided enough fat and proteins to build in some weight. Freeze-dried worms, brine shrimps and finely cut edible stuff rich in vitamins are a wonderful thing to have for the babies. The beef is also a rich taste, although one fails to realize how they instinctively like it, since they would hardly get across beef while they are free.
The adults, or the 4-5 month old Fancy Guppies, are best kept on a diet, because most have had their fill since birth and grown a belly, most clearly seen near the dorsal fin. Such Fancy Guppies may live even after 2 weeks of no food and there is no harm in keeping them hungry for a few days.
Food is essential, and ultimately even they need it. The perfect food is low-calorie stuff, punctuated with freeze-dried food once a week. The balance is maintained. Cultured food or live small creatures answer the call best as they are naturally live and thus fresh. The Fancy Guppy feels pretty homely feeding on it.
The mosquitoes are a great attraction to these fishes and they may have a wholesome feast on them if provided. As the mosquitoes are commonly found sitting on the surface of the water, they are easy prey for the Guppies in the wild. In home atmosphere, the mosquitoes may be drawn to the aquarium with due strategies.
The natural food, like plankton and algae are very friendly to the fancy Guppy bellies, as they neutralize the false effects of their digestive system. Even lions have been seen consuming leaves sometimes to keep their digestive tract glowing!
The flakes are an owner’s scientific way of keeping the calorie balance. Checking with experts or online about what quantity of what the Fancy Guppy needs, the owner might find the actual food a bit expensive to spend on the fish. So flakes are a great alternative and provide a variety in taste. The Fancy Guppies are found to have a fancy for the flakes and run in to have their share even before the flakes bloat.
If the fishes are found uneasy because of certain feeding complications, and if the owner is qualifies enough to judge that, he or she should best keep the fish under quarantine and hungry for a few days till it regains its color. The males guppies are more colorful than the female guppies just for the record.

