Most Popular Guppy Fish

Cobra Guppy - Cobra genes marked with a complexion like a snake skin on the entire body of male guppy with the color combination of black, white or yellow. There are many guppy fish with cobra stripe because this is the first pattern that since can be identified. Changes in genes which are common on the type of cobra is known as "lace". The lace gene has a pattern that is more subtle and complex. Because very easily to crossbreeding, cobra pattern can also be found in the female guppy.

Metallic Guppy - Naming refers to the color blue or dark metallic gray on the body of a male guppy fish. The most common is the type of Metallic Cobra which is a combination of metallic genes and cobra genes. This varieties has a metallic-colored on head and chest and the rear body patterned cobra.

Japan Blue Guppy - The Japan Blue type thought to have originated from wild guppy populations in Japan. Characteristics of this type is the presence of blue sky at the side of male guppy, because other genes influence the color can vary from purple to turquoise. Recent developments of the Japan Blue type is Lazuli Guppy which generaly has a blue color on the head and tail.

Pink White Guppy - The characteristics of this guppy type is a white color pink dipangkal tail. This species recently identified by the source of unknown origin. The color varies from pink to white. The first variants color of this guppy fish have a tail with a red tinge, but now more often found with bright solid colors like blue and white.

Tuxedo Guppy - The genes tuxedo of this guppy fish give a dark color at the rear body (waist) like a black and blue color, but his coverage level was vary. Generally cover the rear half of guppy body. Tuxedo genes in addition to providing coloring effects, also influence the size of the fin. Tuxedo guppy fish tend to have larger fins.

Tropical Cichalasoma Severum

The body shape of Severum fish (Cichalasoma severum) is round like eggs and flat oval, but not too long. Severum’s color depending on the type, a yellowish brown or brownish black with or without spots on its body.

Once mature, Severum will bring malignant and aggressive nature, therefore, severum should be maintained along with a uniform size kind of fish. Another habit of the Severum fish like to rummaging through aquarium base so this cichlid often make the water turbid and aquatic plants uprooted.

Severum fish adaptability is high enough so the water quality requirements where his life was not difficult.

In Severum female, it’s colors body even more bright and the fins becomes golden and there are combination of red spots, yellow, and blue. In the absence of lust, the males are larger with very brilliant colors than the female and the Severum fish males have a lot of red spots on it’s side than the females.

A striking sign of the female of Severum fish are on the dorsal fin and anal fins which looks shorter not like those of male fish.

Tropical Platty Pictures

This tropical fish from South America is one of the ornamental fish that have long been introduced. Platty varieties such as sunset, Hawaii, red coral, black tail, Samson, and platty forked widely spread in the market of ornamental fish.

Care bear fish is actually very easy because platty have a fairly high tolerance to various conditions or water quality. However, to obtain optimal results, water quality must be maintained.

Variety of platty fish ( Xiphophorus sp. )greatly affect quality, coral red for example, including the quality if the body is rather short and red. While the varieties of Samson called good when his body elongated and stocky.

Generally platty fish can be kept in the pool or open cement tanks with high density. However, that environment is often disturbed pests such as dragonfly larvae, small Argulus lice, and lernaea, thus platty susceptible attack by fish diseases.

Dragonfly-larvae’s attack can cause skin of platty injured, while Argulus lice and lernaea who entered by the feed will be attached to the skin of fish. This condition could be make platty fish quality lower. To prevent the pests attack is by soaking platty fish in salt water, PK or abates solution.