My 3 ft guppy colony/ mess

3 Ft cheapie tank, some dolphin internal filter, 2 "Wish" LED light (Fricken awesome for R30). no additives used, just plain black sand and fish poop

Load: 8 guppies (started), 1 panda corrie, one bristle nose.... Now millions of guppies, added 6 venustus fry as well, think you can see one on the pictures.

Plants... Collected trough the years and some coverage (seeds) imported from wish.

Branches I picked up next to the beach.

Dont know if its frowned upon, but i cull the deformed guppies by adding them to my cichlid tanks

 

nice! looks like a little guppy paradise

 

I has a good laugh reading the title, "colony/mess". Looks alright man. Yes cull those bad babas, nothing wrong with it as they just end up suffering.

 

What substrate is that "black sand". I like these natural looking tanks, looks awesome.

 

It's just normal black sand from petshop... In this case, I got it with another tank. There is however a little brown layer from bark and organics, due to age.

The small leaf plants/ coverage was a packet of seeds that came with something I ordered from wish. Just put a pinch of seeds in, and next day there was leaf. Very careful not to wash water into the drains/toilet from this tank. As I'm not sure what plant it is or how it can take over

 

On another note, is it normal that all the guppy offspring seem to be female? I'm not getting any males

 

They have only been in there for about 6 months, so maybe 3 generations. Maybe it's just me id'ng them wrong, but none of them have the wavy tail the original males have

 

Think Im going to remove some of the males, as there is a nice looking male, but dont see his babies, haha

 

What lights from wish did you get? I'm looking for cheap lighting options and yours look awesome

 

This one, there is hundreds of options, just find cheapest one (with postage)

 

Nice lights! I'm actually also in the market for some myself. Postage just takes forever (Dear SAPO handling things). Also, you are more likely to see deformities with interbreeding and a lack of new bloodlines. These guys can breed pretty heavily.

 

Shipping takes forever waiting for some more lights, which I ordered 3months ago, but feel it's worth it, as there is nothing wrong with quality (and I have spare lights to make do, haha)

 

After a leak scare yesterday, I rescaped a bit.

Now its a bare bottom with 2 pots with some pants in and java fern on the wood.

 

Yeah, somehow my light siphoned water across at a certain level, not sure how yet

 

Yeah, it has connection front and back, saw the water came from the light , when i lowered the level it was fine. but sill need to investigate