Did you know guppies swim in the display at "Arch the Florist" on Palaceside Building B1? I once started keeping goldfish when my son was small and ended up more hooked than he was — so I am the type who never tires of watching a tank.
They have kept guppies here for about ten years. The main reason is that they are easy to raise and low-maintenance. There are two tanks — I thought different varieties, but actually males on the right and females on the left, kept separately. Somehow pitiful. If kept together they would multiply uncontrollably.
（*^_^*）「Do they lay that many eggs?」
（；-_-）「What are you saying — guppies don't lay eggs!」
（*^_^；）「Whaaat — I didn't know!」
That's how it is. Guppies develop eggs inside the body and give birth when the babies have grown somewhat — they are "ovoviviparous," which gives better survival odds in nature than laying tiny eggs. Watching the aquatic plants at the bottom of the tank, I spotted a cute little one about 5 mm long, unmistakably guppy-shaped, swimming below.
By the way, they usually start giving birth about two months after birth — about ten at first, then roughly every month, with numbers increasing each time; some produce around 100 at once. No wonder they live separately. Guppies live less than two years, so the trick is limiting births — neither increasing nor decreasing too much. Makes sense.
As in the animal world generally (humans excepted), guppy males are colorful and females plain. Males have long, wide fins with clear patterns.
Why not let guppies soothe your heart too?