Guppies trying to show up my Betta!

[SnowyzMom]

Just wondering if anyone else has guppy males with tail fin extensions that look very much like the crowntail Betta tail fins spikes. I am not sure which grandpa guppy to give the credit to but anyways it looks SO cool, very long showy fins with ragged handerchief like extensions on them, long and flowing. Nooo, it's not fin damage, I first freaked out and checked that ages ago, they are fine, it's just how their tails are. Different! Yes, if I had a digital camera I'd snap a pic and show you them. Just wondering if anyone else has ever had any?

 

[small_fry]

hiya ive looked on the net and ive found a pic is this what ur male guppy looks like?
http/www.biology.usu.edu.biomathlab/image111.gif

 

[willywonka099]

It's tail damage ......no worrys guppies fins can take damage and repair quite easiley .... Sometimes it appears too be a clean cut as if a crowntail but this little bugger took a beating

 

[small_fry]

no its not its a pure breed ill find the web site and post it back in here

 

[willywonka099]

Well it isn't a popular strain and most full breds go anywhere from $25-$100 from prodominant breeders so I am guessing this is fin damage ...

 

[ferrikins]

Well it isn't a popular strain and most full breds go anywhere from $25-$100 from prodominant breeders so I am guessing this is fin damage ...

WOW thats alot of money for a little fish

 

[cation]

It's not tail damage, I had a spawn throw about 5 or 6 guys like that. To varying degrees - it also threw some sword tail and double sword gups. I kept the one in which it was the most pronounced - he's beautiful and healthy as can be. All mine like that were blackish green irridescent on the bodies, and black based fading to orange and yellow crowns on the tail. Really lovely. Some of the healthiest fish I've produced, too. Looked nothing like the picture shown here - that looks like tail rot to me.

 

[willywonka099]

Well if you find the name tell me !!!! my little brother just started a tank and just like when I started a tank what do they always want ??? guppies LOL but they are very pretty and I could suprise my brother with a few of these if I find the name ........

 

[cation]

I don't think they're a strain. I think we just have mutants, thrown by a parent/s with a gene for lyretail, ir sword, or double sword. I got them by (I believe) a half black red and a green cobra female. But they were pet store guppies, so who knows?

 

[willywonka099]

If it is a trait that appears alot than yes it is a astrain somewhere down the road .....

 

[cation]

You're making a big assumption that it occurs a lot. Or that it would be selected for - it is kind of a messy look. It could be a combination of ressive genes, which would make it less likely to happen.

 

[willywonka099]

You compared it too a "crowntail betta" !!! You made an asumtion !! All I am saying if it was something that was beautiful in a fish the trait would have been bred out ...... If the crowns are as perfect as some bettas (which you all said they were) then it would be bred out

 

[cation]

...... If the crowns are as perfect as some bettas (which you all said they were)

Nobody said that, actually.

You compared it too a "crowntail betta" !!! You made an asumtion !!

It's not an assumption, it's a comparison. My comparison was based on the fishes phenotype, your assumption was based on the fishes genotype. Big difference, but good try.

 

[Angry_Platy]

You compared it too a "crowntail betta" !!! You made an asumtion !! All I am saying if it was something that was beautiful in a fish the trait would have been bred out ...... If the crowns are as perfect as some bettas (which you all said they were) then it would be bred out

Lighten up dude....

Sweet snowyzmum....Perhaps they will breed and give you really purdy babies too

 

[willywonka099]

Well I'm sorry I don't appreiciate people butting into a debate and insulting me .. I mean wtf ...... We are trying to help not shoot ppl down (or I am atleast)