Guppy

Metal Black Tail Guppy Breeding Pair A Grade

🖤 Metal Black Tail Guppy

Description & Care Guide

✨ Appearance
Metal Black Tail Guppies are striking, selectively bred guppies known for:

– Deep, solid black caudal (tail) fin — often velvety and opaque
– Metallic sheen on the body, usually silver, platinum, or steel‑blue
– Males: slimmer, more colorful, with longer flowing fins
– Females: larger, rounder, with shorter fins and a subtler metallic shine
– Active, peaceful swimmers that stand out beautifully in planted tanks

The contrast between the metallic body and the jet‑black tail is what makes this strain so eye‑catching.

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🐟 Ideal Tank Conditions

Tank Setup
– Minimum tank size: 10 gallons for a pair
– Temperature: 24–27°C
– pH: 6.8–7.8
– Water hardness: Medium to hard water helps maintain color and health
– Filtration: Gentle flow; guppies prefer calm water
– Lighting: Moderate — enhances the metallic body shine
– Plants: Java moss, guppy grass, hornwort, anubias, and floating plants

A dark substrate or background makes their black tails pop even more.

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🍽 Feeding
To keep their colors rich and their fins healthy, offer a varied diet:

– High‑quality micro‑pellets or flake food
– Live or frozen foods: brine shrimp, daphnia, mosquito larvae
– Vegetable matter: spirulina flakes or blanched greens

Feed small portions 1–2 times daily.

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❤️ Behavior & Compatibility
Metal Black Tail Guppies are:

– Peaceful and social
– Great for community tanks
– Compatible with mollies, platies, peaceful tetras, rasboras, corydoras, and shrimp
– Best kept away from fin‑nippers like tiger barbs or aggressive bettas

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👶 Breeding Notes
Like all guppies, they breed readily:

– Gestation: ~28–30 days
– Females can drop 20–40 fry per batch
– Provide dense plants or a breeding box if you want to save fry
– Adults may eat babies, so hiding spots are important

Selective breeding helps maintain the deep black tail and metallic body traits.

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🧼 Maintenance
– Weekly 25–30% water changes
– Keep nitrates low to prevent fin damage
– Watch for common issues like fin rot or ich
– Stable water parameters help maintain their deep coloration