Mating: Lyretails And Regulars

[unknowntbeast]

I recently got 3 Lyretails and 2 regular Grey Mollies from my LFS. I was just wondering, will they mate with each other, and if so what would be the end result? I also have some orange molly lyretails, if they mated with the greys, what would be the end result, that is if they did mate.

 

[Mikaila31]

I am not sure on the result, but I'm guessing the normal tail/fins are the more dominate trait. So most of the offspring will probably have normal fins.

Also to my knowledge lyertail males normally cannot successfully breed.

 

[OldMan47]

The mollies will cross without any attention to lyretail or not. The results are something I have never seen a reason to explore. Instead, I try to keep lyretails together and regular tails together.

 

[fishnovice]

Are lyretail males really infertile? That may explain why my black mollies (male lyretail, female common)never bred

 

[OldMan47]

An extreme lyretail male can have difficulty breeding in some livebearers due to the misshapen large gonopodium not functioning properly as a sex organ. In those cases, new lyretails are produced using lyretail females and regular males. I am sure this is the case with platies and swordtails but I have never seen a molly that badly shaped to affect its abilities. Instead, I have used lyretail male mollies with my female to produce more lyretails.

 

[helterskelter]

lyretail gene in mollies dose not affect their breeding as oldman has stated, it's only affected in Xiphophorus species (swords/platies).

As fro what you would get you would never know as to do the you need to know what their parents was.