Could be guppy/molly hybrid, I have seen these before. They are sometimes really nice but often due to the incompatible shapes you get deformed fry that are halfway in size. Did it look like a molly cross?

Butch, it is possible to hybridise gambusia and guppies and get cold tolerant fish. I pulled something out of the creek some time ago that I could not kill. I left it out in the cold in filthy, unfiltered water for ages. Didn't feed it. Overfed it. In general I totally neglected that fish and it still lived. I had no females but I believe it was fertile. I see them in the creek all the time. Idiots have chucked guppies in there, and gambusia were introduced for mosquito control, multiplied and took over everything. The creek gets to about 10 C or lower in winter. They don't all die. I know it's not a pure gambusia because it had colour, green and yellow stripes in the tail like tiger markings and a black dot on the dorsal.

Hi everyone, i have been keepig some limia i caught of a pond in hawaii as well as some mollies out of the same pond with other species of limia and poecilia in a community tank for about 5 yrs and i have had numerous hybrids between the limia and poecilia genuses, the most spectacular one i have right now is a cross between the hawaiian limia and tiger limia sp., im new to the forum and i was wondering how to post pics?

I traded some PM's with Butch, and tried to find the guppy again. Unfortunately, the ones I had seen were gone - dead or sold. I'll keep an eye on the stores, though, and if I see any more, I'll buy them and get some good pictures. The molly hybrid does sound plausible (I didn't know they could cross) - the first one I saw and posted about could pass for a deformed guppy if it were a bit smaller, but since then the ones I've seen were very badly deformed. one female had a big hump on her back so her tail was turned about 60 degrees out of alignment with her head. They were locally bred, and limias, goodieds, and all the rare livebearers are unheard of except as special orders.

trimotoman: Best way to post pictures is to use a site like imageshack.us to upload them, then copy/paste the forum code into a new post.

This post has been edited by Corleone: Sep 2 2008, 03:23 AM

these r some of the fish when i first cught them in hawaii

here r some molly limia hybrids they have molly colr and finage but r limia in shape, these dropped from a female limia



heres a male limia from hawaii, they are supposedly limia vittata but im not sure



and here is a female limia from the pond




sorry its so fuzzy i had to use my camera in my phone, but here is my tiger limia and limia from hawaii cross

John Dawes (The Livebearing Fishes, p. 115) reports molly/limia hybrids (the limia male was himself a melanohgaster/nigrofasciata cross) but mentiones viability problems.

Wow lots of limia/molly hybrids appeared these days than few years ago.

May I ask you some question? What it made you want to cross limia to the mollies? Except for coloration.

Since the hybrids are getting more common these days, they need a name. Li-Molly?

Lollies Might get them some popularity within a certain *ahem* lifestyle.

i thought it would be a great project because im fifteen and my biology teacher said it was impossible to cross genuses, i've only been able to cross wild type mollies with limia but i am workin on gettin some color in there. i just keep them in a community tank and see what i get