Guppies & Endlers

[fi$hys]

Hi all,
Is it true if a endler & guppy mate is it true the baby get born sterile.Also if a endler and guppy mate what do they look like guppies or enlers.
Please Help.
Thanks
Mat

 

[Superdax]

I have crossed endlers and guppies on a few occasions, just to experiment with the markings. All fry were born fertile, and tended to have the delta tail of the guppy, with the colour and markings of the endler, although when I used a h/b guppy, this came out as dominant in the cross.

Got some truely spectacular looking fish out of the process too!

 

[fi$hys]

cool did they look anything like endlers and could they have been show fish
Mat

 

[Superdax]

You could tell that it had endler genes. What it looked like was a small guppy with the striking endler colours.

As to whether they cam eout show quality, I would say no, however if you them choose to selectively breed to create a larger tail, enhance the colours, then maybe you would get there. It would take many generations though.

 

[fi$hys]

have you any colours.
Mat

 

[Superdax]

have you any colours.
Mat

What do you mean?

The colours that tend to show most are the oranges and greens. Quite often they have purple marks as well. I'll see if I can get some pics up (unfortuately they tend to be quite blurry though!)

 

[fi$hys]

i dint mean colours for some reason i ote it i meant pictures.
Mat

 

[Superdax]

i dint mean colours for some reason i ote it i meant pictures.
Mat

Have a look at this site - there are some great pics (and the fish are older than mone at the mo):
http/www.guppies.com/forums/showthread.p...ighlight=endler

 

[fi$hys]

cheers they are really nice.
Thanks