Tuesday 6 September 2011

How I manage my aquarium?

The guppies are small. Therefore, there's no need to chose of use a big tank to rare them. Unless if you want to rare more or many guppies. If I want to rare guppies, for me I will chose a 25 inches aquarium to rare my guppies.

For decoration, I will insert some of the water plants like water milfoil and Hemianthus micranthemoides. Before insert the plants, I will put some sand and small rock on bottom of the aquarium to insert the plants' root inside the sand to stable it. Besides that, to make the aquarium look more beautiful we also can insert the fake plants that have many colors and shapes. For me, I will prefer to insert fake plants because the plants can maintain longer than the real plants.

Water Milfoil
Fake Plants

Hemianthus Micranthemoides


If the aquarium has growth with algae, I will use algae treatment solution and measure about 1 cap of the solution and pour into the aquarium. To avoid the growth of the algae, better put the aquarium inside the house because of the outer sunlight that the algae need the process of photosynthesis. Besides that, when you rare your guppies outside, make sure that neither the aquarium nor tank is not expose to the sun, because the heat form the sun will cause the water become warm, maybe the fishes will die in the warm. Or else, put plenty of aquatic floating plants such as hydrophyte to block the sunlight.

Aquatic floating plants - Hydrophyte

Usually, I will change the dirty water every one week. After I have wash the surface of the aquarium and suck out the dirty water with a long pipe, I will insert clean water into the tank. After that, I will pour 1 cap of algae treatment solution and 1/2 cap of the bacterial solution into the water and a little bit of salt to kill the harmful bacteria and eliminates toxic ammonia and nitrite in the water. If not the fishes will die.

Bacterial Solution

To maintain the clean environment in the aquarium, I will install a water pump.

A water pump

Breeding Guppy

Actually, guppies are Ovoviviparous animal and they are in vivo fertilization animal which mean the female guppy will accept fertilize by the male guppy

The aquarium will become more and more guppy fishes because their fertilization process is very fast. It's easy to breed a guppy in an aquarium when male guppy mixed with the female guppy. When they are mating with each other, the male guppy will curve its body and show their colorful fin and tail or the male guppy will chase the female guppy to mate with the female.

After the female guppy has accept the male guppy, they will swim in parallel style which mean they will swim together in the water. Then, the male fish will swing and extend their sex organ to inject sperm into the female body rapidly. After that, the sperm and the egg will combine together. And the percentage of fertilize is about 96%.

If a female guppy pregnant, we can clearly observe that the abdomen of the fish has a black spot. That is the fry (baby fish) in their abdomen.

After that, the female fish will give born within 21 until 30 days. The female will give born about 20 to 250 fry (baby fish). After the female has gave born, the fry will not be take care of their mother. Wait until 21 days, the fry will become adult fishes and fertilize again.

A pregnant guppy that has a black spot in the abdomen.

Fry or baby fish


Types of Guppies

The guppies are found in South and Central America, these livebearers have been bred for a variety of colors, patterns, and fin shapes.

Guppies are generally named for the color of their tail, tail configuration, and body coloration.


There are many types of guppies, such as:


Silver Red Tuxedo Guppy



Leopard Guppy




Blue Moscow Guppy




Full Red Guppy




King Cobra Guppy



Japanese Pink White Guppy


Grass Guppy

About the guppies' tails, it's funny! They have many different shape of tails.


Below is the shapes of guppies' tails:


Sunday 4 September 2011

Facts about the Guppy

The common name of the guppy is million fish and its scientific name is Poecilia Reticulata and they are live in group and not aggressive (friendly), not harmful to other fish or human.


They are Omnivorous. They like to eat variety type of food such as flakes, Spirulina, lettuce, spinach, freeze dried foods (dried red worm), mosquito larvae and algae. Just feed them trice a day regularly.

About the size of a guppy, normally the size of a adult guppy is 2 inches to 2.5 inches or 5.08 cm to 6.35 cm. It is easy to determine whether the guppy is male or female.

Left side is female guppy
Right side is male guppy


Normally the size of a male guppy is smaller than a female guppy, whereas the size of a female guppy is bigger than a male guppy and the abdomen of a female guppy is big and plump.

Besides that, we can also dertermine by observe their color. Normally, the fin and the tail color of the male guppy is bright and long, whereas the fin and the tail color of the female guppy is dull, flat and short.


Usually, the guppies will generally swim upper region of the aquarium. Sometimes, the guppies will breath at the upper region of the water surface level.

The guppies are live in water that the pH value is about 6.0 - 7.0. And the temperature of the water is about 20°C - 28°C. They prefer to life in the hard water that fulled of mineral materials in the water.

Colored and Beautiful Fish - Guppy

I am so interesting and love to rare guppies or called million fish, scientific name is Poecilia reticulata. Because they are one of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish species in the world and they are so many color, tail shapes and species. Don't you even want to know about it?


A beautiful guppy.



Actually, before we buy guppies, we must confirm that we must have time to take care the guppies.


First, how to chose and buy a guppy?
It is important to chose and observe the condition of a guppy in an aquarium shop before we buy it. Thus, before we bring them home we should determine:


  • Its color is bright or not,
  • Its healthy condition - must in healthy condition,
  • It is swimming actively and freely,
  • Its fin and tail is fully extend or not (do not chose the guppy that has torn   fin and tail),
  • The pattern on their body, fin and tail,
  • and the size of the guppy.

Monday 8 August 2011

Hari ini Maths Presentation, Hari yang Nervous dan Malu

Hari ini ada Maths Presentation. Semasa saya membuat undian, saya telah memilih nombor 5 sebagai kumpulan lima untuk buat presentation dengan partner saya iaitu Wan Yusoff. Ketika itu saya berasa sangat nervous~aiyooo~hati saya mahu lompat keluar ah! Saya beritahu saya sendiri supaya tenang, kerana nervous akan menyebabkan saya blur/blank. Semasa presentation mula, saya memerhati kumpulan yang sebelum saya cara mereka untuk bentang dan menyerap sedikit semana tektik untuk buat present. Ahli kumpulan yang pertama ialah Syed Kamal dan Mhd. Thaqif, sayalah orang yang membuat penilaian kepada mereka haha~markah itu sebagai rahsia haha~^口^ Selepas kumpulan 4, maka sampailah kumpulan saya. Ah~!nervous ni! Tapi akhirnya saya juga menenangkan diri saya... Semasa saya present saya garu-garu kepala dan peha~Tapi saya tak perasan kenapa rakan-rakan saya ketawa, tapi saya tahu hal ni kerana Wan beritahu saya. Aiyooo! malunya saya diketawakan oleh rakan-rakan DIP1A. malu,malu saya... Saya nervous ni...Selepas siap present, hati saya juga lompat dengan laju. Saya juga menilai Mimi dan Nadhirah haha~ Saya juga mahu tahu saya punya markah peer asssessment dapat berapa. Presentation saya dan Wan Yusoff boleh ke tak rakan-rakan?

Sunday 31 July 2011

I am Myself


My name is Foo Yoke Sin. I'm just a simple person. I'm 18 years old, come from Ipoh, Perak. I'm studying in Politeknik Kuala Terangganu. My hobby is drawing and play computer games.
And my handle on life is:
"Everyone is not perfect, even if we are in a difficult situation, also rely on their own efforts to spell out good results."