Hi all,
I was lucky enough to pick up an lyretail male guppy on thursday as well as a nice yellow tailed female from the same tank. He has a grey body with coloured spots as well as black patches. His tail has black edges and yellow in the middle, as well as more dark spots. The female spat out babies today, so far I've found 10.
What I'm wanting to know is how the lyretail gene(s) work? Is it recessive? dominant? sex-linked?
I have some young (6 week old) virgin females that I am looking at breeding to him when they are old enough, they come from my mixed guppy community tank, and was wondering if I'm likely to get lyretails out of them first time out or if I'll have to back cross the offspring?
Thanks heaps,
Take care,
Ian :0)