Hi all,

I have been trying to create new strains using the feral guppies from Reporoa.

So here a re some pics:

Fathers:

First male offsprings:

Hi nice Guppies, here are some of mine, have some like yours with the flash of colour on the top of the tail, bright orange thou. This one has a pretty tail too. I'm doing a strain of just blue fluro's too, started with just the 1 wild boy.

Are you using the wild females aswell? Liking the Green on the middle offspring pic

Are you using the wild females aswell? Liking the Green on the middle offspring pic

No, Im not using wild females. They were reject females from all my breeding lines. The last picture is from a moscow mother.

I didnt start with any females either and have now got a real mix of size, shapes and tails.

A better picture of offspring #2

A better picture of offspring #2

Very nice

I was about to post a question that might already be partly answered here. I recently bought some guppies on internet auction. The impression I got is that the seller (kid) had started out with good stock and that they have been breeding pretty indiscriminately. There were some with reasonably nice green tails etc, plus a number of males that look similar to those at the top of this thread. I was wondering if these are just guppies that have reverted to wild type or whether they are something different (eg hybrid Endlers or something). Because they are similar to some of the pictures on this thread so instead of starting one I thought I'd come in here. I'll post some pictures as soon as I figure out how.

Raewyn

Sorry, still can't see how to upload photos. The fish in question have orange marks like in Cesarz' first photo and also black spots. They have top and bottom 'swords' like in the third offspring photo above. So I guess that means they are likely to be just guppies that have reverted to wild type.

As an aside, when I put them in with my angels (other guppies already happily in the tank) the angels looked like they wanted to eat them (but didn't). The angels were clearly responding to the spots. I took them out again after a couple of days because the angels weren't settling down and neither were the guppies. They settled a bit but remained nervous so I took them out. This was just the ones with the wild type spots. The others were fine. I then removed the two biggest angels and tried them again (still three smaller angels) and now everyone is happy. Something about those spots made the angels think 'food' even thought he fish themselves were big enough to be tankmates.

They from Butchers Pool or somwhere else/

I was wondering if these are just guppies that have reverted to wild type or whether they are something different (eg hybrid Endlers or something). Because they are similar to some of the pictures on this thread so instead of starting one I thought I'd come in here. I'll post some pictures as soon as I figure out how.

Raewyn

Just checking that you know that Endlers or Venuzuelan guppies are or have been available in shops over the last few months so it is possible that you may have some mixes.