Female Colorations

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Are there any strains within which the females consistently carry significant coloring, either guppy or endlers?
 
Are there any strains within which the females consistently carry significant coloring, either guppy or endlers?
Well, real female endlers won't show coloration. But if they do than they only show something in the fins and saddle. And if that's the case, such females carry those genes of those colors or pattern dominantly. Which means that those are YY females instead of XX. Female endlers however with no coloration can still carry the color and pattern traits recessively.
Female guppies can carry color and pattern genes recessively and dominantly as well. But if your question would be that if it's possible to breed female guppies with coloration on their bodies and fins, then the answer will be: Absolutely, yes! But it depends on the strain you choose. To mention some of them: Koi, tiger king, tuxedo, etc...
 
Hello. Female Guppies can be quite colorful, especially in the tail area. However, you need to introduce new fish from time to time, or the color in both males and females can be begin to fade.

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Hello. Female Guppies can be quite colorful, especially in the tail area. However, you need to introduce new fish from time to time, or the color in both males and females can be begin to fade.

10 Tanks (Now 11)
That's an option. But you could also split up the offspring and make two breeding lines and after a couple of generations, you can mix some of both lines together again and will keep the quality up as well. For at that point, they're already further related from eachother. And this is a better way when you are working with a specific strain that isn't available everywhere.
 
That's an option. But you could also split up the offspring and make two breeding lines and after a couple of generations, you can mix some of both lines together again and will keep the quality up as well. For at that point, they're already further related from eachother. And this is a better way when you are working with a specific strain that isn't available everywhere.
Good point. I have generations of Guppies in most of my tanks, just never could net them all out when overhauling an old tank to introduce some new fish I'm interested in at the time. So, the Guppies just keep breeding. Now, after many generations over the past couple of decades, all the Guppies are a washed out pale color. Still quite healthy due to all the water changes, but a faded out color.

10 Tanks (Now 11)
 

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