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Breeding Livebearers - Guppies and Swordtails

by the Editors of FishLore.com Aquarticles

Equipment Needed:
- Breeder box or breeder net
- Breeding grass
- 5 or 10 gallon tank for the baby fish or a tank divider that you can use for your main tank.
- A pair - 1 female and 1 male Read the rest of this entry »

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Guppy AIDS.. Diseases.. or just Defects in the Gene Pool..?

by Bill “Pegasus NZ” of New Zealand

Many of us.. not only here in New Zealand, but it seems throughout the world, are having problems with Guppies wasting away and developing bent spines along with other problems. This is more prevalent today that in earlier years… which leads me to believe it is not what we seem to believe. The scaremongers and those that could not define an explanation for this were soon to attach various names to the problem, including Guppy AIDS.. and Wasting Disease.

Like many, I don’t have a one-hundred percent qualified answer to this problem, and can only tell others about my own situation. Read the rest of this entry »

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