I Want This! :o!

[Knox213]

Look at what i've found every-one!

It looks fabulous and i want one!

 

[hughessomefish]

no joke i had one of those but it died but i have fry from it

 

[Knox213]

the one in the picture looks extremely skinny apparntly these are the non hybrid versions of Damination mollies..

Where did you get yours from?

 

[hughessomefish]

my i admit was a little skinny till it died it got fat,i got mine at petco ,but have seen them at petsmart

 

[Haych]

i'd say a dalmation sword molly. could be wrong, am sure someone will be in to correct me

theyre supposed to be skinny though, i have seen these around

dalmations are fatter i know lol, theyre naturally big mollies.

 

[Knox213]

i'd say a dalmation sword molly. could be wrong, am sure someone will be in to correct me

theyre supposed to be skinny though, i have seen these around

dalmations are fatter i know lol, theyre naturally big mollies.

Where about Haych?

I Want to buy some

 

[Amberleaf]

Isn't a lyretail molly? Just saying.

That's a cool molly; I might get some mollies for my big tank.

 

[Haych]

it was a long time ago.... it would have been a5, shirley or the one in my town thats shut down now....

 

[Knox213]

ahh

ah well on the bright side..

ITS SNOWWWWING!

 

[Haych]

you might wanna edit that....

 

[Knox213]

Yep...

Lmao just realized what i said !

 

[Haych]

still showing as a swear word....

 

[OldMan47]

That is what I would call a lyretail dalmatian. It is a very nice looking male you have there.
I don't know why you say it is not a hybrid Knox. All of the fancy mollies, guppies and swordtails are hybrids. That is how they develop the fins and colors in them. There are at least 30 different species in the Xiphophorus genus that includes the swordtails and platies. There are also over 20 different species in the mollies group of Poeciliids that are called molly as a part of their common name. You can add to those mollies the large number of Limias that are quite capable of being crossed with a molly, and that some taxonomists place together with mollies in the same group, and it will give you some idea of where all that genetic diversity comes from.

 

[Knox213]

That is what I would call a lyretail dalmatian. It is a very nice looking male you have there.
I don't know why you say it is not a hybrid Knox. All of the fancy mollies, guppies and swordtails are hybrids. That is how they develop the fins and colors in them. There are at least 30 different species in the Xiphophorus genus that includes the swordtails and platies. There are also over 20 different species in the mollies group of Poeciliids that are called molly as a part of their common name. You can add to those mollies the large number of Limias that are quite capable of being crossed with a molly, and that some taxonomists place together with mollies in the same group, and it will give you some idea of where all that genetic diversity comes from.

How do you actuly breed a molly and a guppy though?

i realy dont understand that

 

[OldMan47]

It is something that I have never tried to do but as I understand it, you place a female molly in a tank with a male guppy and never let them see any other fish. Even the clumsy attempts of the guppy will have some minor successes and result in fry. The crossing I was talking about for developing fin variations or unusual colors is between different species of mollies or between different species of Xiphophorus. A closer cross like that is a bit easier to get to happen if the single sex of each species is the only one present. Often the more distant crosses must have intervention and be artificially inseminated.