Diana Walstad's Books and Articles
FISH, AQUATIC PLANTS and FAMILY
How to breed nice guppies in just 8 planted tanks
I revised my 2018 article Small-Scale Guppy Breeding on how I keep and breed fancy guppies in just eight planted tanks. You won’t see anything about fish rooms, drilled tanks, automatic water changers, etc. It explains how I overcame the modern guppy’s fragility and disease susceptibility.
Genetics of breeding fancy guppies for fitness, disease resistance, and beauty
Breeding Guppies: Genetic Pitfalls and Successes (10 page article) describes my experiences with crossing various guppy strains–Metalheads, Blue Grass, petshop guppies, swordtail guppies, etc. Avoid the genetic problems I encountered as a beginning breeder. Follow the story, which includes basic genetic explanations, to a happy ending–the creation of novel and beautiful phenotypes.
