Hybrid Livebearers

[kribensis12]

Calm down ladies! I'm no expert but it's highly unlikely that a guppy could hybridize with a molly. Not impossible though.

They can hybridize, but they prefer to mate with their own species.

 

[Butch]

Don't worry Thomas, we're just having harmless debate about the fish in pic is golly or just lyretail molly.

Guppy and molly can hybridizing but its very rare. Its just the experiments are very complicated.

Unless you have only one molly fry that never seen another molly, turn out to be female and a bunch of male guppies. Then put the female molly fry with the male guppies in same tank to see what happens.

 

[Suicidal_AZN]

i think its a golly!!
check out the orange spot on its gill covers!!!
Guppies have many spots/blotches of colors on there body as mollies dont.

 

[Butch]

I don't see any orange spots on the molly. Its not real golly, its only a young lyretail molly with poor genetics.

Mollies can have orange spots too, just like guppies. Mollies does have blotches and spots on their bodies too depends on what aquarium strains.

 

[Mikaila31]

I might have some sort of swordtail hybrid. She is one of those big red ones. She looks like a swordtail, but when put in with my albino koi swords her body shape looks a lot different and she is a lot bigger.

 

[three-fingers]

I might have some sort of swordtail hybrid. She is one of those big red ones. She looks like a swordtail, but when put in with my albino koi swords her body shape looks a lot different and she is a lot bigger.

Common swordtails seen in shops are almost guaranteed to be platy hybrids, and vice versa. And I think I remember reading an article that said lot's of platys in the stores seem to be hybrids of X.maculatus and X.variatus too, so our domestic swordtails potentially have at least 3 species in them.

Swordtails can get surprising big and stocky anyway, once the store I work in got a small batch of orange swordtails that were about 6" long excluding the tail. I was amazed and thought they were giants, but the elderly gentleman who bought them all said he used to see them like that all the time in stores, and that he was disappointed in the quality of livebearers these days.

 

[Mikaila31]

I might have some sort of swordtail hybrid. She is one of those big red ones. She looks like a swordtail, but when put in with my albino koi swords her body shape looks a lot different and she is a lot bigger.

Common swordtails seen in shops are almost guaranteed to be platy hybrids, and vice versa. And I think I remember reading an article that said lot's of platys in the stores seem to be hybrids of X.maculatus and X.variatus too, so our domestic swordtails potentially have at least 3 species in them.

Swordtails can get surprising big and stocky anyway, once the store I work in got a small batch of orange swordtails that were about 6" long excluding the tail. I was amazed and thought they were giants, but the elderly gentleman who bought them all said he used to see them like that all the time in stores, and that he was disappointed in the quality of livebearers these days.

6" long without the tail! Gosh I hope mine doesn't get that big. She is about a year old now and she is a lyer tail/ sailfin. I measured her a few months ago and got only 2.25" without her tail. Her tail by its self is 2" long right now and still growing . Its hard enough as it is to keep her from tearing it to pieces.