DANCING GUPPIES
When I was about ten years old, I enjoyed six guppy fish [ two females and four males] in a one-gallon, glass jar that I put on an end table, under a table lamp. I put a clump of algae strands in the jar with the guppies to make their temporary home more natural. I often sat and watched those beautiful, lively guppies, especially at night when the lamp put abundant light into the water-filled jar. They were not in that jar long, however. I put them in a five-gallon aquarium with the algae strands and placed the whole business on that same end table under the table lamp. There, of course, the guppies had more room, and probably were happier. Those small fish were always swimming about, and attractive. But the most interesting aspects of their activities were, and still are, the males' courtship dances and the females' giving live birth. The o...