I Want This! :o!

[Knox213]

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.

i did'nt think it would ever be possible..? becasue of the gene's etc.

I never have seen a guppy/mollie hybrid in my life.

But if i ever find one of these mollies. i'll snap them up as soon as i can..

 

[OldMan47]

I have only seen pictures of guppy molly crosses. I have never seen one in person. Mollies and guppies are closely enough related to sometimes have viable offspring but they are nothing I would want in my tanks. Heck I don't even like the endler/guppy crosses that have been done. My real passion is about the wild type fish and preserving them as they should be preserved, for future generations of fish lovers to enjoy. That does not prevent me wanting to read about the processes involved in developing some of the things we see at the LFS, it can be fascinating reading for someone like me.
I am sure you will eventually see an example of a dalmatian with lyretail genes Knox. Neither the color pattern or the tail shape are anything like being rare on the commercial fish farms so some day someone will decide that the time is just right to move one of the genes into a group of the other fish, maybe when one or the other starts to go out of style.

 

[Knox213]

I Like endlers... would like some in my new tank. Would they be aloud with angels?

Thanks.

 

[OldMan47]

You could probably keep endlers with angels but I doubt you would ever see any fry from them. Angels are very efficient predators. I sometimes post a picture on this forum of my mollies and show the female with her fry. That same female spent almost a year in a tank with only 2 angels in it and I never saw a single fry that whole year. The pictures that I put up are the result of moving her to a 10 gallon birth tank and leaving her there for 2 weeks to drop her fry. The angels will probably find endlers a bit too big to eat but the fry will never survive the predation.

 

[Knox213]

im keeping red platy's in there..

i dont realy want fry from them. But i just tihkn it'll look nice you know?

few silk plants etc.

would look nice.

Going to make a journal of it