Is It Legal...

[haleystropicalfish]

If I were to buy a couple pairs of fancy guppies from aquabid or someplace like that, would it be legal for me to breed and sell the same strain, or would I need to slightly alter it by breeding them with another color/fintype of guppys?

I was just wondering because I was thinking about breeding blue grass guppies, but I don't really want to mess with the strain. If it is illegal though, I will just pick out a couple of males and a couple of females that I think would make a good strain, and go from there. Unless thats illegal too, I don' know. I haven't bred a pure strain before, but I have bred guppies. Allot. Right now I probably have around 60 fry, babies, and young fish, all from the same female. Then there are the others, lol. Anyway, please answer if you know, and if you don't, answer anyway!

 

[MojoDex]

why would it be illegal?

go for it i say

 

[haleystropicalfish]

I justthough it might be illegal because someone else bred that strain and I personally would want to spend a bunch of time breeding something special and then have someone else go and mass produce it.

Anyway, thanks for the help!!! Now I just have to get a tank divider so the new guys don't get to friendly with my hobby guppies. Also, would I have better luck selling on Aquabid or on my own website?

 

[Tolak]

Sell on Aquabid, with a link to your website in your auction.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

As long as you don't pass someone elses strain of guppys as something you created, then there's nothing wrong with breeding the guppys .

I have to say though that creating a truly new strain of guppys takes a lot of time, money and patience. Its not as simple as crossing two guppys of different colours for example to produce unusual colours in their fry- when you create a truly new strain, any fry that your new strain produce must look exactly like their parents everytime around. To do this, you need to breed the guppys over and over until they stop producing undesirable fry, this often ends up with inbreeding in the guppys and so a lot of culling must be done.
The other problem with this is that inbreeding will inevitably weaken the guppys, so medical bills may soar and although you may eventually end up with a new strain, the costs of creating it will probably be pretty high. On the other hand though, if you create a new strain of guppy that is truly unique looking and becomes very desirable, you can make a lot of money from selling the offspring and go to things like guppy shows to compete your guppys and win prizes etc .

 

[helterskelter]

If you buy a strain of fish and keep them going with out crossing then or selling something else as then it's fine to sell the fish with the name u got them.

To be a true line they should breed 90% true for at least 3 generations. if you devlope a new line you have to do the same but keep them going for 5 generations i belive and then there is somewhere u can register the name, but as i dont do that my self i dont know where u do it, It's the same with new lines or crosses with endlers.

 

[OrganizedChaos69]

ummm lol, no you can't copywright an animal. Impossible. Hardly illegal.

 

[helterskelter]

ummm lol, no you can't copywright an animal. Impossible. Hardly illegal.

Azoo have copyright on their glofish.

If you breed them you not allowed to sell them unless you have a licence

 

[OrganizedChaos69]

Nope, I breed and sell fish all the time without a liscence. I don't know what country you live in though.

The reason they have a patent is because they made that fish i imagine. It's an object a mutant, not a wild animal. you can't have a patent on a wild animal or any type of non genetically mutated animal, is that better for you?

 

[helterskelter]

Yes thats right they are a GM fish and thats why u cant sell them but u can give them away.

but u can try to bread any wild fish, but cultivated lines should be breed as u get them.

 

[Danno]

All you have to do when you sell a strain is note "You are purchasing a -fishstrain- -fishnamehere- " Just note the fish strain. Breeding a fish is not illegal.

 

[haleystropicalfish]

So what you mean is that I can buy the guppies and breed them without any signed permishion or anything like that? Well thats pretty darn cool!!! 8)

 

[OrganizedChaos69]

It would be illegal to have guppies in general if it were illegal to breed them. They breed all the time without anyones permission and you can't stop them really. They are prolific.

 

[haleystropicalfish]

Welll, I know it's not illegal to breed them, but I wasn't sure about selling someone elses strain, thats all.

 

[Danno]

I can see it now! Guppy Chastity Belts! Hahaha