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Poecilia reticulata couple -TOBAGO Speyside
You've probably already ask one of the following questions
during the daily inspection of your aquarium:
1.Why he left me very little fry while
my female was packed?
2.Why does my female swallows his
little after giving birth?
I'll give you three guesses explaining the gesture of these
cannibalistic females:
They probably do not have parental instinct:
Sometimes guppies give birth without being ready to become
parents, this explains the complete lack of parental instinct and the
development of the cannibal instinct.
Baby Fries Trap
They spend recover energy during childbirth:
During gestation, they consume a large amount of nutritious
food (Artemia, glitters, granules ... etc) to their supply sufficient energy
for growth of future fry.
This energy disappears during childbirth, so we can assume
that swallowing their young, they are enabled to get a strong capital it will
spend in the next gestations.
They practice natural selection:
You are probably trying to ask you what I mean! Do not worry
I will not digress, female guppies also practice the selection.
At birth a fry in shape thinking swim fast to find a hiding
place and expect to live longer than his brothers and sisters and weakened
debased by their parents. That is why I use the term natural selection, only
the healthy guppies will be able to survive, others will be eaten see death
from malnutrition or malformation.
Sometimes you see the good side of things, that natural
selection will also help you maintain healthy guppies, which is a major asset
for a future generation of quality.
Finally in the wild, cannibalism of these guppies is not a
problem, however for us, selecting breeders or not, it tends to make us sad not
reap the fruits of our patience. Note however that there are insulation systems
that you can buy or tinkering allowing you to have a better performance.
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