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Hyper Guppy | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Hyper Guppy (none / 0) (#1)
by miskairal on Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 12:41:13 AM PST

Hi Mandy,

Mine occasionally do the fast swim up the tank. I dont' think it means anything. Maybe they are hyperactive. Being near the heater I wonder if it's sort of "surfing" up a warmer area?

I have noticed that as my fish have aged they do less weird things. When younger they seemed to be burning off steam a lot of the time and racing around the tank.
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Guppies are shoaling fish. That means (none / 0) (#4)
by unclescott on Sun Jun 26, 2005 at 10:46:30 PM PST

that they loosely band together while foraging. We often suggest buying a half dozen Corys, tetras, Danios or Rasbora, because those are schooling fishes and that seems to meet a need for company. That may even have health benefits. In nature shoaling and schooling have an advantage in terms of protection.

Indeed there is a study which indicated that predators following a school of fish, in that case, wouldn't attack the school. But when a member of the school strayed behind and stood out as different, whammo! Grim way to deal with dropouts!

So your guppy may be looking for other guppies. A couple of neat Guppylog posts have recorded the seeming delight guppies exhibit when new guppies arrive.

Or, as suggested, he may be one of those energetic teenagers. ;) In either case he may be mildly neutrotic, but he'll get over it. :)

All the best!
uncle scott

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Re: Guppies are shoaling fish. That means (none / 0) (#5)
by DaysSweetDaze on Mon Jun 27, 2005 at 06:10:45 PM PST

I've often wondered about guppies social habits...
I know they don't school, and I've read a lot that says they are solitary, but hang out in random groups, like you mentioned.
However, in my fry/adolescent tank, the fish have divided up into groups it seems. There's always the same groups hovering around one another when they sleep and forage in the rocks.
It also seems certain males prefer a certain group of females.

I've been watching them as pretty soon it's going to be time to split them up. Getting kinda crowded in the fry tank. They grow up so fast!

You should get him a girlfriend (or two!) and see if he settles down. ;)

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