Basic data:
Scientific name: Poecilia obscura (Schories, Meyer & Schartl, 2009)
Interpretation of words: ( Poecilia = colorfulness, diversity), (obscurus = hidden)
Slovenian name: Prikriti gupi
Group: Livebirds
Source: Northeast Trinidad , the source of the Oropuche River
Size: Males: 2cm, females: 3cm
Biotope / habitat : fast-flowing streams and ditches of the Oropuche river basin
Social behavior: Peaceful, suitable for group aquarium
Diet: Omnivore: live food, frozen, flakes, tablets, granules, spirulina and algae.
Cultivation: Easy (2/5)
Aquarium: min 40 liters
Population: Fish groups if possible more females than males
Decoration: Plants, stones, roots
Temperature: 22-25 ° C
pH: 6.5-7.5
Hardness: from 4 ° dGh to 20 ° dGh
Lifespan: up to 2 years
Poecilia obscura Covert guppies
Kingdom: Animalia / animals
Trunk: Chordata / string players
Class: Actinopterygii / arthropods
Order: Cyprinodontiformes / Toothpicks
Family: Poeciliidae / live-bearing toothed carp
Genus: Poecilia
Species: Poecilia obscura
(Schories, Meyer & Schartl, 2009)
Cultivation
Concealed guppies are bred similarly to ordinary guppies, except that the fish is not mixed with ordinary but endler's guppy, otherwise unwanted crossbreeding occurs. It needs clean water, without organic waste at the bottom (fish rest at the bottom at night and thus come into contact with bacteria that thrive in a neglected aquarium, this leads to bacterial infections of fish, especially bacterial decay of fins). The fish are sexually mature in a few weeks, in principle they do not eat offspring that are somewhere around 10, the development of young takes about 25 days.
See plain guppy. ( Poecilia reticulata ).
The Covert Guppies is the last species discovered and described from the genus Poecilia
We know 4 taxon guppies genus Poecilia (three species and two subspecies)
Poetic reticulata reticulata - Peters, 1859 (Julius Gollmer's Guppies), Venezuela
Poecilia reticulata guppii - Gunter, 1894 (John Lechmere Guppy's Guppies), Trinidad & Tobago
Poecilia wingei - Poeser, Kempkes & Isbrucker, 2005, Venezuela
Poecilia obscura - Schories, Meyer & Schartl, 2008, Trinidad
in 4 species microgupe subgenus Micropoecilia
Micropoecilia bifurca - Eigenmann, 1909
Micropoecilia branneri - Eigenmann, 1894
Micropoecilia picta - Regan, 1913
Micropoecilia minima - Costa & Sarraf, 1997
Features
Covert or Oropuche guppies differ from ordinary guppies but the number of dorsal fins
(reticulata - 7, obscura - 6), in size and shape of the gonopod, so "on the eye" there is practically no difference.
An example of the habitat of a species
