Is It Legal...

[K.J.]

Someday 50 years in the future some wise people will create a method of neutering a guppy.

 

[OrganizedChaos69]

The only way to nueter a guppy is to kill it, which I would never reccommend or do my self of course.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I think with the selling of fish thing, i believe if you run a shop and want to sell fish in it to the general public, you need to get a license to sell fish in general to people (just like you need license to sell rodents and reptiles for example in shops). But if you are a private breeder, i think it is a different matter?

 

[OrganizedChaos69]

Yeah it makes sense. If you sell on a large scale, it would likely be different. But sell on a small scale so I don't need liscenses. Who knows though for sure until we grab the legal books to study em' and if there are laws like these, they more than likely aren't enforced.

 

[haleystropicalfish]

Okay, well that answers my question. Thanks guys!

 

[nmonks]

Yes and no. If you buy just two or four fish, the gene pool is tiny. Within a couple of generations you will have a lot of slow-growing, low-fertility, or deformed fry. You get a lot of these with livebearers in the best of circumstances. So you really need a fair number of fish to build up a viable, safe population. This is the difference between quality breeders and "puppy farm" type breeders. Just look at the difference in quality of things like discus or Endler guppies. There's a huge difference between the fish produced carefully and the fish cranked out purely for profit.

Secondly, almost no-one makes money fish breeding unless they do it on a BIG scale. Teenagers living at home might make a profit, but that's because someone else is paying the bills for heat, light, etc. Once you have to cover these things yourself, as well as the hardware costs, food, medication, transport, shipping, etc then it becomes much less easy to make a profit. If it really was as simple as "buy two fancy guppies" then everyone would be doing it.

So, while breeding fish is a great hobby, go into it looking for fun, not money. If you happen to recoup some of your costs selling fish, then that's great. But don't bank on it.

Cheers, Neale

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)

 

[zarebskifish]

MMMMmmmmmm. it depends you could corrupt the whole strain if you do it wrong
what i meen is if there are 1000 blue grass guppies add you cross breed 1 of them and the fry look the rougly the same
and them fry all mate with the pure blue grass gupppies then you do nat have a pure strain
so if you were going to buy a pure strain guppy the get tank with only that strain of fish.

 

[nmonks]

The point to proper breeding isn't to cross breed (say) blue tuxedo guppies with red veil-tails. But to start off with blue tuxedo guppies from lots of different breeders, in each case buying the best fish they have. This way, you keep the strain pure, but ensure that you aren't cross siblings all the time.

If you look at how dog breeders work, they don't cross their own male and female dogs, say, German shepherds, but cross their males with someone else's females, and vice versa. Inbreeding is the curse of pedigree dog (or fish) breeding. Breeding high quality dogs and fish takes effort, and that's why good quality pedigree animals are expensive.

Cheers, Neale

MMMMmmmmmm. it depends you could corrupt the whole strain if you do it wrong
what i meen is if there are 1000 blue grass guppies add you cross breed 1 of them and the fry look the rougly the same
and them fry all mate with the pure blue grass gupppies then you do nat have a pure strain
so if you were going to buy a pure strain guppy the get tank with only that strain of fish.