November 19, 200916 yr comment_341010 We all know that guppies like a bit of salt. I just had an experience of how much they can take. My current brine shrimp set up is a jug with its handle hanging over the side of the tank. This particular time lots of eggs were washed up on the sides of the jug so I scooped some water from the tank to wash them back into the brine solution and must have inadvertently scooped up a baby guppy from the tank - which I didn't notice at the time. Next day when I harvested the bbs, there was this guppy swimming around in the brine shrimp. It was agitated and didn't look like it had eaten many, but it was very much alive. So as well as surviving being in that level of salt, it also survived the sudden change of salinity when it went in. I gave it about a one hour float back to fresh and it was fine when it went back into the tank with the others. Thought people might be interested. And yes, I'll take more care next time. Report
November 19, 200916 yr comment_341018 tough little fish fish club meeting this sunday if yoiur interested the guppies you gave me have doubled in number Report
November 19, 200916 yr comment_341025 probably the first slightly dehydrated live guppy ever. :lol: Report
November 20, 200916 yr comment_341176 I've read that at a young age they will survive being introduced to saltwater 1.020sg and given enough time will even reproduce. I found this little fact in a manual for breeding marine cardinals and using guppies as live food. Report
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