The Freshwater Tank
This tank is upstiars in the extra room. It is a 5 1/2 gallon freshwater tank.
It contains three male guppies, four female guppies, a catfish and a khuli loach.
Guppies, we've found, are very easy to take care of. They are not as picky as the goldfish, except they need a heater and goldfish don't. Guppy water should stay around 75 degrees. Males and females should be kept in an environment where there's at least two females to every one male. This keeps the females from being stressed from being chased by males all the time.
They are very easy to breed, in fact it's impossible to stop them :) They can have a batch of fry every month if allowed. The adults love to eat the babies so thick plants should be provided for shelter. Either that or put the fry in a floating breeder box or net. Fry eat many more times a day (4 to 8). They can eat fry food, finely crushed adult fish food, or newly hatched brine shrimp (this is the best).
This is Mac and Tony, two male guppies.
Reba, a female.
Elvira, another female.
Faith (female) and Rhett, the third male.
Fluffy the spotted cory catfish.
(getting a picture of Leroy, the khuli loach, is pretty hard since he burries himself in the gravel. He is, in fact, burried right under this pillar that Fluffy is hiding by. He has a "den" under there.)
Recently 3 females dropped their batches of fry (baby fish). We put them into a 5 gallon tank we had in the basement to let them grow. There are about 20 of them now. We won't keep them all of course, they'll be given away.
Here's a very enlarged picture of one of them.
...and here's Spike, the panda cory catfish who keeps the babies' tank bottom clean.