How long do guppies live? How many years can they generally live

Guppies have brilliantly colorful body colors and graceful, natural body shapes, and are deeply loved by people. They are gentle in temperament and can be kept together with mild small and medium-sized tropical fish. They are usually lively and active, have very short lifespans but are very strong breeders, and are one of the most common tropical ornamental fish. Let us take a look below at how long guppies live!

How long do guppies live

Guppies have very short lifespans, generally only 1 to 2 years.

The growing environment of guppies

Guppies are highly adaptable. The most suitable growth temperature is 22 to 24°C. They prefer slightly alkaline water quality, with a pH of 7.2 to 7.4. They have a wide diet, a gentle temperament, and are lively and active. They belong to the upper-layer fish and can be kept together with other tropical fish. Although guppies are easy to keep, obtaining fish with gorgeous body colors and graceful body shapes requires a spacious water volume, more aquatic plants, live bait, suitable water quality, and other conditions from the fry stage.

The breeding habits of guppies

Guppies belong to ovoviviparous fish. They have strong reproductive capacity and early sexual maturity. After 3 to 4 months of rearing, young fish enter the maturity stage and can reproduce offspring. Whether sexual maturity is late or early is closely related to water temperature and rearing conditions. In water at 24°C and a hardness of about 8 degrees, they can reproduce once a month. The number of fry produced each time varies depending on the size of the fish, ranging from more than 5 at the least to more than 100 at most, and some fish can produce more than 200 young fish. When the female fish's abdomen expands and bulges and an obvious black gravid spot appears near the anus, these are signs that she is about to give birth.