The food for guppies can be live, dried or frozen. The best food is live food, of course, but guppies gladly accept frozen or dried food too. However, if you want to maximize the growth rate and boost the immunity of your guppies, you should provide them with live once in a while.

Feeding guppies
(notice how happy they are – this is how they should be – if they aren’t happy to see you, you overfeed them)
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This is a community guppy tank (please excuse the platty :)

The size of the guppy tank

The tank for the guppies must be chosen based on the number of fish you want to keep. It is recommended to have 1 guppy per gallon of water. For beginners and people that don’t really want to breed show quality guppies but just enjoy their variety and have fun, up to 4 guppies per gallon can be kept, but make sure the aeration and filtration of the water are very good. Also water changes more often are necessary, at least once a week.
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