Anyone Know Anything About Endler Guppies

[markk039]

hi i just want to know any info you would have on endler guppys
eg breeding, size, aquarium size, diet, and sexing them.
thanks

 

[fish48]

requirement same as guppys males are very colourful females have no colour to them at all.
when well fed adults leve there young alone. they except most foods offered some live food Should
be added in there diet. can take a wide temp- range they do well at about 74f.
a very aesy fish to keep and breed .

 

[OldMan47]

I am a breeder of wild type endlers livebearers. Although they are related to guppies about as closely as swordtails are related to platies, they are a distinctly non-guppy species. Many of the fish available at your local fish shop will indeed be crosses between guppies and endlers, in much the same way as the colorful swordtails at the shop are really crosses between wild swordtails and platies. I keep my species maintenance colonies in water at 77F, 25C. My water is fairly hard and I feed a flake that is high in vegetable matter. My own colony is in a 45 gallon show tank but a small colony could be maintained in about 5 gallons, 20 litres, of water. Sexing wild type endlers is even easier than sexing guppies. Because no female endler ever shows any color other than the base grayish color, any fish with any splash of color is a male.
If you have a pet shop variety, like tiger endlers for instance, you will need to examine the fish for a gonopodium vs. a triangular anal fin, just like any typical livebearer. We have a gender determination thread at the top of this section that will let you sex them with ease. Please be aware that tiger endlers are not endlers at all, they are guppy/endler hybrids.

 

[ARMS87]

I am a breeder of wild type endlers livebearers. Although they are related to guppies about as closely as swordtails are related to platies, they are a distinctly non-guppy species. Many of the fish available at your local fish shop will indeed be crosses between guppies and endlers, in much the same way as the colorful swordtails at the shop are really crosses between wild swordtails and platies. I keep my species maintenance colonies in water at 77F, 25C. My water is fairly hard and I feed a flake that is high in vegetable matter. My own colony is in a 45 gallon show tank but a small colony could be maintained in about 5 gallons, 20 litres, of water. Sexing wild type endlers is even easier than sexing guppies. Because no female endler ever shows any color other than the base grayish color, any fish with any splash of color is a male.
If you have a pet shop variety, like tiger endlers for instance, you will need to examine the fish for a gonopodium vs. a triangular anal fin, just like any typical livebearer. We have a gender determination thread at the top of this section that will let you sex them with ease. Please be aware that tiger endlers are not endlers at all, they are guppy/endler hybrids.

Very good info, all I can add is that endlers reproductive cycle is slightly longer than guppies by a day or two.

 

[OldMan47]

Sorry ARMS but that is simply not true. My pure endlers drop fry at about 23 to 25 days while my guppies, in a completely different room for safety's sake, drop fry at about 28 days. I have no idea what to expect from guppy/endler crosses since I simply do not have any.