My Fancy: Smallest Frog, Guppy Fry @ Baby Guppy Fish

I used to like tiny winy creatures like small frogs during my childhood. The one i found at my late great grandmother's place was about 1cm big. It's just like the picture below (grabbed from National Geographic), but it looks cleaner and green in color. Perhaps the one I saw was not a full grown frog.






Besides that, i also used to enjoy catching tadpoles, small fishes from drain! i think they were cute. I still like small fishes but not tadpoles.. I have heard young children killing tadpoles by squashing them dead.. Very torturing... Sad to hear.

This is the picture of a baby guppy fish. Adult female guppy can be obtained easily from fish shops and a couple can produce as much as 20 fries at a time. They can breed almost anytime. Guppy fry needs special attention, eg. separate them from their parents or other adult fish as they are prompt to dangers like eaten or being bitten to death. It's fantastic to be able to witness the mother delivers the baby one by one... just like a tiny ball out from the mother, and within a while, it moves and turns out to be a baby fish.

Smallest frog (Source: National Geographic)

These are guppy fry.. cute! (Source: breeding-guppies.com)

Guppy are prompt to diseases too. I had witness the poppy eye syndrom and parasite which shaped like "dragon fly"/ damselfly naiad, scales out. Scary and hate to see such thing happen to my guppy. Now i have gave up this hobby as it involves a lot of time to take care and the most important thing is that, i can't bear to see them dead one by one.. But i wish i have a tiny pond in future, where i can keep some guppies in. They live well with places with shades too..!

"Dropsy" : scales are protuding. Poor fishy (Source:penycatsblog), but this's not a guppy.

I remember i found my fishes eaten by this tiny parasite (Source:sutter-yubamvcd.org)


More disgusting parasite photos here. Hate them all