This is literally called guppy love

Hope you like fish porn! Here are some guppy mating pictures that I’ve photoshopped into a pleasing array. Yes, this is what I do with my time. I’m rather pleased with these photos as it’s surprising difficult to get these guys in focus when they are frantically swimming around. A brief overview: the colourful male guppy is trying to mate with the larger, grey female.

So many different positions!

So many different positions!

Some highlights include the second photo on the left, which depicts a male mid-sigmoid: a guppy courtship display. In the third from the left, this male is employing a more sneaky mating strategy, appropriately called a ‘sneak’. You can see his gonopodium (re: his dick) mid swing, as he swims toward the female in hopes of inseminating her. I didn’t say this would be pretty. Male guppies usually switch between these two mating strategies, being more gentlemany if the female seems interested, and switching to being a sneak when she’s not  (which happens to be most of the time– sorry boys).