Or you could just say, "Use your judgment to pick me out a very nice group of Guppies with three males and five females." Whatever you request, we'll try send you what you want.

Scientific Name. Poecilia reticulata.

Comments 
You can order any number of males and any number of females. Males are available in Red, Blue, Gold, Green, Black, etc. Most Guppy females are gray or tan. Just phone us, or fax us, or send us an email and describe the Guppies you'd like to get from us. Say something like, "I want to get one red cobra male and two females, plus a metallic blue male and two female." Whatever you order, we'll do our best to match the fish we ship to you with the description that you give us. These are very strong Fancy Guppies. Much better than many of the Fancy Guppies that are sold at much higher prices.

Appropriate Home 
Guppies will live best in an Aquarium with an External Power Filter with a BIO-Wheel, 1/4 inch or less of gravel, and an Aquarium Heater adjusted to between 78 and 82 degrees F. Click here for more about warm water aquariums. Like most livebearers Guppies will do better with 1 Tablespoon of Aquarium Salt per 5 gallons of water in their aquarium.

Recommended Diet
Floating flake food and freeze dried  blood worms. Both of these foods are available in most stores that sell pet fish. 
Guppies will do better, if fed a little bit of frozen brine shrimp and a few live Black Worms. Click here for more about Black Worms. Click here for more about feeding fish.

Compatibility
Fancy Guppies are best kept in a group with at least three male Fancy Guppies and about twice as many female Fancy Guppies. Good tank mates for Fancy Guppies are Cory Catfish, Small Tetras such as Neon Tetras, White Clouds, Honey Gourami, Glass Fish,  Ghost Shrimp, and African Dwarf Frogs.

Quite often large Mollies will attack Guppies. Even though both Mollies and Guppies are often sold as "Community Fish", usually large Mollies and Guppies are not compatible tank mates. Swordtails and Platies are also not good tank mates for Guppies. Guppies do better with smaller tank mates like the ones listed above.

Click here to read more about several other groups of compatible fish.

Size and Life Span
Guppies have a life span of 2 to 3 years. Males can grow to about 2" including their long tails. Females can grow to be 2.5" long. Sometimes Guppies will live longer and grow bigger.