Female Guppy Or Endler?

[mislisa]

I have two female fish that are either guppys or endlers, or possibly hybrids. I've had them for a while, but never really looked into which they are until now. They arrived as tiny fry mixed in with some other fish from my lfs. I'm looking to add some endlers into my 20g multifasciatus tank, so if these are endlers as well, i can move them over.

Sorry for the fuzzy pictures, they are hard to photograph!!

The orange one on the top is a female guppy, one i bought as a companion for the other two. (thankfully she wasn't pregnant)

any help is appreciated!

 

[Animal Lover 2000]

the slear one is endler keep her pure

 

[mislisa]

the two greyish ones are pure endler then? I can work with that!

 

[RichardA]

It is very difficult to say in person much less from a pic online. Female endlers are typically smaller then guppies but remember they are just about the same species, with some more DNA work they will fall one way or another. I personally wouldnt trust ANY that could be a guppy in with my endlers. Mine came from some of the wild caught stock.

 

[Blitz]

Very difficult to tell without being there. She looks like an endler to me!

 

[PrairieSunflower]

For me, I could only tell by size and I can't tell the size by the pictures.

 

[Baccus]

Since guppys and endlers are often hybridised (and do so, so readily) with unknown parentage I would always assume that there is guppy genes mixed with what you are hoping is endler.

If breeding these fish is just for your enjoyment then by all means put them with endler males, however if your goal is to sell any offspring then it is only fair to potential buyers to admit the endlers may not be pure, and never advertise them as being pure.

 

[snazy]

I can't tell by the picture really. I bought a female guppy once, that was in an endler tank in the fish shop and her babies all turned out to be endler hybrids, small ones, half the size of a grown up guppy and the mother was definately not an endler. The female daughter I got is half the size of a female guppy really, smaller than yours and is over an year old, yet she is a hybrid.

 

[Essjay]

I have fish that were bought from a breeder who said they were endler-guppy hybrids and the females all look like endlers. Just because a female looks like an endler doesn't mean that it is pure endler.

 

[angel308]

They look very much like Female guppysto me....I have 4 that look the same.

 

[fluttermoth]

If they've come from a pet shop, they'll be either guppies or guppy/Endler hybrids.

There are no pure Endler's in the trade now (at least that's what John Endler told me!), you'd have to go to a specialist breeder to get true, pure strain Endler's.

 

[snazy]

This is my endler/guppy female hybrid.

And that's her compared to the size of a platy. They are about a year old or slightly older.