Who are these guppies?

I noticed before that there’s just too damn many guppies to keep track of. Or there used to be. Now I’m looking at the tank going, What happened to Mama Black? Where’s Speckles and Neon and Tiger Stripe? Or Paint Box? There’s just six girls, all black tails, the Black Sisters, I guess. No it’s […]

Guppies are pretty … awful

When I was a kid, I just saw guppies as pretty. Now I see them with different eyes. The males constantly harassing the females. The females constantly at some stage of pregnancy. The fry always in danger of being eaten. But they don’t all get eaten, and some of them are turning out quite pretty.

Gulpies

Gulped. That’s what happened to the first few babies that popped out of my new guppies.