How Do I Find Out What Type My Guppies Are?

[Jozlyn]

How do I find out what type my guppies are?

Is there a web site that lists tails, colours etc, so that I can find out what my guppies are? I have 5 and I'm thinking about breeding but I'd like to know what they are before I start. I'd post pictures but my camera is broken at the moment, I'm hoping hubby'll fix it over the weekend.

Also, how do you know what colours you're going to end up with?

 

[Annastasia]

There are so, so many crosses in Guppies. Since they will breed with any Guppy under the sun, I doubt there are names for all of these obscure crosses. If you potentially have purer colored ones, you could try looking around Aquabid, or sale sites, and see if the colors match any on there. But I would guess you have a lot of mixes of colors.

It's quite hard to know what colors you are going to end up with as well. Since they have been crossed so randomly, it's hard to know what colors they have, what recessive colors they have, etc. Sometimes it's logical, sometimes it is not. You may get some different colored fish in one batch. I bred a yellow female with a red male, and got some yellow, some red, some orange, and some blue/green. It's hard to say until you see them.

 

[Jozlyn]

Hmmm Had a feeling that might be the case!

 

[helterskelter]

Just post a few pics and I'll see if i know it off hand.

 

[Jozlyn]

I would but my camera is broken, that's why I wondered if there was a website I could look through.

 

[helterskelter]

loads of guppy sites but i don't use any, guppy designer was a good site but the owner has now locked it payed membership access

so check out www.guppywiki.org same persone, just no forms for help, u just have to search.

 

[Jozlyn]

loads of guppy sites but i don't use any, guppy designer was a good site but the owner has now locked it payed membership access

so check out www.guppywiki.org same persone, just no forms for help, u just have to search.

K, thanks alot