Guppies Outdoors?

[tab24]

Hey, I'm just wondering if I could keep guppies outdoors in a large tub type thing? Unheated and unfiltered but with plenty plants. I live in the North West of the UK and we are just into spring. It's still pretty cold here. So maybe in the summer? I dunno, I just thought I'd ask. Thanks for reading.

 

[Colin_T]

In warmer weather you can but in winter they will probably all die.

 

[PlasticGalaxy]

I'd definitely say no. Since guppies are tropical fish, they need "warmer" temperatures. Bodies of water in the UK (especially in colder parts up North) rarely get to 18c. Unfiltered would probably be a bad idea, too.

 

[tab24]

I'd definitely say no. Since guppies are tropical fish, they need "warmer" temperatures. Bodies of water in the UK (especially in colder parts up North) rarely get to 18c. Unfiltered would probably be a bad idea, too.

I've saw people keep them in unfiltered plastic bottles as fry. I'd imagine with enough plants to provide oxygen they should be okay. But yeh, the temperature is the main issue.

 

[PlasticGalaxy]

I've saw people keep them in unfiltered plastic bottles as fry. I'd imagine with enough plants to provide oxygen they should be okay. But yeh, the temperature is the main issue.

What "people", can I ask?

 

[tab24]

What "people", can I ask?

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

That's inhumane. There's no need or reason to keep fish in vases and pop bottles.

Look at the first adult fish he feeds that are in a square fuplie vase... they have no room to swim!

Just because some people don't care about the welfare of their fish, doesn't mean they're worth emulating. Please, don't do something like that. Anyone can make a youtube video, it doesn't mean that what they're doing is okay at all.

 

[Colin_T]

You can use black ponds to absorb heat and put bubblewrap on top of the ponds for extra heat and insulation. You can greenhouse them too.

If you put some gravid females out in spring, then bring them in at autumn, you will probably get lots of young. The following year you put some of those young in the pond in spring and let them breed, and each year put young in. After 10 years you will have a cold water guppy strain.

We did it with rainbowfish here. I had a bunch of rainbowfish that were outdoors in ponds and I brought the adults in during autumn. There were a lot of babies in the ponds but most died in winter. The following spring they grew up and bred and within a few years I had fish that would live in water with a temperature of 5C in winter and 45C in summer.

In the UK it will take longer but it can be done during the warmer months.

 

[tab24]

That's inhumane. There's no need or reason to keep fish in vases and pop bottles.

Look at the first adult fish he feeds that are in a square fuplie vase... they have no room to swim!

Just because some people don't care about the welfare of their fish, doesn't mean they're worth emulating. Please, don't do something like that. Anyone can make a youtube video, it doesn't mean that what they're doing is okay at all.

I never said I was gonna do it? I was just showing they can survive without a filter with just plants and surface movement.

 

[tab24]

You can use black ponds to absorb heat and put bubblewrap on top of the ponds for extra heat and insulation. You can greenhouse them too.

If you put some gravid females out in spring, then bring them in at autumn, you will probably get lots of young. The following year you put some of those young in the pond in spring and let them breed, and each year put young in. After 10 years you will have a cold water guppy strain.

We did it with rainbowfish here. I had a bunch of rainbowfish that were outdoors in ponds and I brought the adults in during autumn. There were a lot of babies in the ponds but most died in winter. The following spring they grew up and bred and within a few years I had fish that would live in water with a temperature of 5C in winter and 45C in summer.

In the UK it will take longer but it can be done during the warmer months.

Wow! That's so interesting. Did the evolution of temperature change their colouration or behaviour at all?

 

[Colin_T]

the looked and acted the same, they just had a much wider temperature range

 

[fish48]

Hey, I'm just wondering if I could keep guppies outdoors in a large tub type thing? Unheated and unfiltered but with plenty plants. I live in the North West of the UK and we are just into spring. It's still pretty cold here. So maybe in the summer? I dunno, I just thought I'd ask. Thanks for reading.

yes you can keep guppies outside in Unheated and unfiltered tubs, large tubs) to be on the safe side you will need to wait till the first to second week in June they can stay outside to the end of September they can not survive the UK winter