Saigon Aquarium, Livebearers, Discus, misc. (5/5)

How many guppies do they raise here? This many:

Vanishing-point perspective, illustrated with guppy ponds

Vanishing-point perspective, illustrated with guppy ponds

There were nearly as many ponds devoted to other livebearers: platys, swordtails, mollys. In the case of the swordtails a single giant pond was subdivided with hanging nets. I’m not sure what the difference is between the different pond arrangements.

These are also all fish that I think of as needing the exact opposite water (hard, alkaline) as tetras, but as best I can tell they don’t mess with the water chemistry for anything but discus.

Discus must not yield to mass-production techniques, because the discus tanks looked just like discus tanks everywhere.

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