Poecilia Reticulata

Care level: Easy, Ideal for a peaceful community tank. Best kept in groups females are less colourful than males but it is recommended to keep them as they will bring out the colours of males.

Temperature: 22-28 °c 

pH: 7-7.8.

Water hardness: (dGH): 8-12. (KH) 8-20

Diet: Feed them a varied diet of tropical community flakes or granules and live, frozen or freeze dried foods, guppies are omnivores so appreciate some plant matter in their diet spirulina flakes or canned green beans are good for this.

Tank size: 5 gallon tank for a trio of guppies. But given how quickly they reproduce a 10 or 20 gallon aquarium would be more appropriate in the long run.