Guppy Fish
I have a life long relationship with Guppy Fish.
I grew up with them.
They taught me biology without having to read a textbook.
What I discovered was Guppy fish suffers from a disease called Guppy Disease.
I have a healthy batch of almost wild Guppy stock.
They are in my big outdoor fish tanks.
Those tanks are meant to control mosquito population.
Guppy fish love mosquito larvae even though they do not kill other fish.
They are called community fish since they live in harmony with other type of fish.
Most important thing one has to do is to quarantine the new batch of fish.
I have a quarantine tank.
They are kept there until they breed.
Breeding is a good sign of healthy fish.
The new shoal is transferred to a new tank and once they are big and a sample is put to the outdoor tank.
Since, I follow this routine regimentally, I never had an episode of Guppy Disease.
I used to release some of them to the streams nearby.
I stopped doing this die to a good reason.
We tend to release washing machine discard to our stream.
The chemicals used in washing cloths cause gill disease and 90% fish released die.
That was not acceptable to me.
Humans are the ones who poison our environment on daily basis.
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