Micropoecilia parae

‘melanzona guppy’

This page is only here to say: when I lived in Minneapolis I could NOT raise guppies. Melanzonas, pictas, &c. all wasted away in tanks that had totally happy fish of other species. I’m chalking this up to the very soft water that ran from my taps; now that I have well water in Northfield I have no such problems.

Now that I have guppy-friendly water I hope I get a chance to buy this species again, because they look great, with interesting two-color genetics in the wild population.