Endler Pregnancy

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I've just got some endlers, and the two females are both pregnant. Does anyone know where i can find photos/info on their pregnancy?
I know they're similar to guppies but they're so small that the shape is hard to tell :)

EDIT: One female is very pregnant, and the males are chasing her constantly. I have a breeding trap but don't really want to use it. Are there any materials which i can use as a tank divider? If not, i could put both males in the trap, but i don't know if two males in such a small space is a good idea
 
This should help you out - [topic='http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/128756-endler-endlers-livebearer/']Endler Info.[/topic]

Cheers,
Paradise<3!
 
I just checked it and find that the advice may be more appropriate to guppy / endler crosses than to endlers.
I keep wild type endlers and am a registered breeder for them. I keep mine at 77F, about 25C in hard water with a pH of 7.8. Endlers are quite adaptable and could probably do fine from around 7.0 to 8.0 pH.
A female pure endler will drop fry every 23 days on average at 25C. At higher temperatures, the gestation can be even shorter. If you have only endlers in a tank, you end up not worrying about the drop date for your fish. Simply provide a bit of light cover and you will soon be over-run with fry. This is one of my tanks at feeding time.
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The female in the foreground of that picture probably dropped within 2 days of the picture but who can keep track of individual fish once they get started.

Pure endlers are different from the typical jumper guppies. It is one of their characteristics that unlike guppies they are not jumpers.
When it comes to endlers, you want to know what you are buying. If you are buying guppy crosses, you may as well treat them the same as guppies with a month long gestation and the jumping characteristics. I never run my guppy tanks as hot as the article suggests. Even guppies get the treat of lower temperatures in my tanks because it allows the fish to develop better, although slightly slower.
 
Thank you - absolutely brilliant info. How can i tell if i have pure endlers?

Also, i have 2 males and 2 females in my tank. It's not a good ratio but they were the only ones :/
One female is very pregnant, and the males are chasing her constantly. I have a breeding trap but don't really want to use it. Are there any materials which i can use as a tank divider? If not, i could put both males in the trap, but i don't know if two males in such a small space is a good idea
 
If you have a female with some nice coloring to her tail or have any pattern at all on her body, she is a guppy cross. Have a close look at the females in my picture. They are very very plain with nothing worth noting about their coloring except a total lack of it. They are a bit shinier where the flash is reflecting off of them but thee is no color to them. Unless you contacted a registered class N endler breeder for your fish, the chances of a pure endler are vanishingly small. The more colorful crosses are much more popular which makes them far easier to find.

With endlers, the pure type, I do not worry much about the male/female ratio. Male endlers actually court females rather than the intrusive approach used by so many other species of poeciliids. That means that they do not end up damaging females or exhausting them when their numbers are equal. The colony in the picture was started by 2 virgin females and 2 males that I selected for the particular colors that I liked, out of a totally unselected wild type colony that has far more variation of colors in the males. The new colony quickly settled in and started producing exactly what I had seen and liked in the males.
 
I have guppy crosses then - i was suspicious of my patterned female. I expected as much at £2 each

The female is swimming up and down the tank wall. Both males seem to be most interested in her, and seeing as the tank is small (but well planted) she doesn't have anywhere to go :X
 

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