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Poecilia reticulata
Wild caught guppy, these were caught in the rivers of Puerto Rico. The ones shown are males, though a few females are also there. They breed each week, with a weekly spawn of 10 fry.
Slow flowing rivers covered by trees. There are no aquatic plants in the river and it has a sandy bottom. The grayish color helps them blend with the rocks, although the movements they do to evade somenone gives them away. They school in around 30+ groups with swordtails. Small fry stay together near the shallow regions of the river.
The bottom fish in the fourth photo is a female green swordtail.
I understand your concern of taking from the wild, but this species is very common in our rivers. In a time span of 1 month they have produced already 30-40 fry without counting the ones that die due to metabolic problems.
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman, actually there are, I only caught 15 in a river around 20ft long and in it were around 100-180+ guppies and the river goes from the moutains to the sea so there are a couple thousands in just one river.
Brian Muñiz, are there enough of this cute guppies to just caught them? and place them in a aquarium, I guess?!
Thanks, they come in many colors. I was with a friend when we caught them so we split them up. They can range from violet to neon blue to orange and even red.
Spotted on Mar 15, 2013
Submitted on Mar 15, 2013
