Guppies can be fooled by optical illusions into believing objects are smaller or larger than they really are. This suggests they might not always make the best choices in their natural environment.

The purchase of the first aquarium brings a lot of excitement. Choosing the first pet is not always easy because of the variety of different species of fish that can be purchased. Some of the fish ...

Are you thinking of keeping fish as pets but don’t know where to start? Take a look at two of the most popular choices for beginners - Guppy fish and Swordtail fish. Here are the reasons why these ...

The streams of Trinidad and Tobago are home to the most unexpected of landscape gardeners. They’re guppies – tiny and beautifully coloured fish, just an inch or so long. Without tools or plans, they ...

Larvae-eating guppy fish can help combat the spread of dengue, a mosquito-borne illness giving rise to hundreds of thousands of severe cases including 20,000 deaths worldwide every year. Larvae-eating ...

When Robert Heathcote dips his head into the rivers of Trinidad, he’ll often see little black dots moving through the water, even when it’s murky. Those dots are the eyes of small, inch-long fish ...

Young guppies who were able to see and interact with live fish developed larger brains than guppies who only saw other fish on a screen. This is shown in a new study from Stockholm University, ...

Most anglers reach for large bait when targeting big fish. We did the opposite. Tiny live guppies and minnows hit the water, and the results were surprising. Sometimes small bait triggers big ...

Guppy fish can be one of the five most effective forms of dengue control, as these tiny fish can be placed in water vessels in and around homes, where they will eat the larvae of dengue-transmitting ...

Just like humans trying to stick to New Year’s resolutions, guppies have varying levels of self-control, a study has suggested. Researchers from the universities of Exeter and Ghent examined the ...

While people tend to describe tropical oceanic islands as 'paradises on Earth' and associate them with calm beaches, transparent warm waters and marvellous landscapes, archipelagos are often the ...