Endlers

[kdjzkl]

where can i get some endlers?

 

[lilfishie]

where are you?

 

[freerunner416]

where can i get some endlers?

Look in the buy and sell, Rooster is giving them away at a very small price and they look great. Also ebay is a good way to get them but they are expensive!

 

[helterskelter]

To be honest almost all shop endlers are crosses with guppies and many sold are crosses even with out the people knowing.

I know several people who breed true endlers but their in the UK and will post to uk only.

also try http/www.endlers-r-us.co.uk or
http/www.endlersr.us

 

[theotheragentm]

AquaBid, but you run the risk of someone unknowingly selling a cross.

 

[littlest]

sorry for the hijacking, but what is the problem with buying a cross? Will they be weaker or is it just not desirable if you are breeding? I'm getting some endler's from my lfs in a week but all males as I don't have room for fry.

 

[Viettxboii]

dilutes the gene pool we want to keep the endlers genes PURE. As if we dont itll become muddled up and eventually no endlers will exist and will all be guppies instead.

 

[littlest]

so is it an ethical decision? If I don't plan on breeding them would it matter? As I wouldn't be doing any more harm, only caring for fish that already exist.

 

[LauraFrog]

The guppy lines are already very impure, there are loads of hybrids (my friend has poecilia reticulata/gambusia species hybrid afaik), so would there be anything wrong with hybridising Endler/guppy and selling the mix/passing it on AS A GUPPY?
I <3 Endlers, but I can't get them where I am either and I live in Australia which makes it hard to use online things. My rents hate online things as well. They've promised me a big aquarium when we move (currently 20l, tiny glass box) and I was planning to fill it with tetras, mini cories and livebearers. If I stuck guppies and endlers in there and sold any guppy or endler fry as guppies because of hybridisation would that be k?

 

[helterskelter]

I dont thing it will have gambusia ia your female these are hasty fish and never seen or heard a valid cross (but someone on the forums here is claming it but still no pics)

As for guppy endler crosses many people dont know their a cross and sell them as pure, if these are then put back with true endlers you end up an unpure fish and i'm concerned that we'll lose these stunning fish to all these little fish.

 

[dwarfgourami]

However, if you intend to keep a group of males only and keep them until they die, then I can't see that there would be an ethical problem with whatever they are. It's only if they breed and then pass out of your hands that they can potentially cause any problems with the pure line.