need help identifying fish
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You're looking at a very fancy guppy. It's a nice one, but price and value are radically different things. Could you give a little more information?
I would say if i were to start breeding the guppy, would it be worth selling? Also what type of guppy would I identity this as?
The price you can get for young fish will vary wildly from country to country, and region to region. What's the competition? How many people are interested? The general answer is that with the resources needed to breed enough fish to interest stores, you might break even. It's a hobby for a reason.
Our main livebearer expert (@emeraldking ) is recovering from an illness, but hopefully he, or someone into fancy guppies will check in and give you the breed name. It's a slow time of year for online forums.
Our main livebearer expert (@emeraldking ) is recovering from an illness, but hopefully he, or someone into fancy guppies will check in and give you the breed name. It's a slow time of year for online forums.
I would say for mostly local store breeding in the us. I haven't contacted anyone because this was from my mixed breeding tank where I let the guppies do their thing. I just don't know if the fish would sell for 1-2 dollars due to it being mixed, or if the colors and structure of the guppy would make it hold more value.
Double sword cobra guppy is my best suggestion until emeraldking is able to answer and correct me if I'm wrong.
Very nice looking guppy, but market can be a gamble for them. Many people get overrun fast and look just to get rid of fry or sell them a buck a piece in my area.
If I were to buy guppies, yours would be pretty enough for my tastes and he'd stand out because he's got a nice tail to me.
I'd recommend checking any local ad sites you have and search guppies and see what your area is like for them. You could be in an oversaturated area and not have much market for them, or if you're lucky you may have lots of demand for them.
At the end of the day, though, if YOU like this look of guppy, you can breed more of this and try to get a nice line going just because YOU like it and it doesn't matter what others may think.
Very nice looking guppy, but market can be a gamble for them. Many people get overrun fast and look just to get rid of fry or sell them a buck a piece in my area.
If I were to buy guppies, yours would be pretty enough for my tastes and he'd stand out because he's got a nice tail to me.
I'd recommend checking any local ad sites you have and search guppies and see what your area is like for them. You could be in an oversaturated area and not have much market for them, or if you're lucky you may have lots of demand for them.
At the end of the day, though, if YOU like this look of guppy, you can breed more of this and try to get a nice line going just because YOU like it and it doesn't matter what others may think.
Hi, if I look just at the appearance of this male, it's phenotypically a tiger doublesword. So, not a cobra or snakeskin. The clou is in the way how the pattern looks like.
I deliberately mentioned "phenotypically a tiger doublesword guppy" for it's still the question what he's genotypically. For I've read that he came from a mix. The red in his dorsal does already say that he's got some red influence in his genes as well. If you could linebreed him so that his swords will become more clean in shape and his dorsal a bit more extended than it is right now, you could make a nice strain out of it. The pattern on his body is already well developed. So, that would already be a good base. The current problem are is in the fins. And if the lace pattern in the caudal could develop a bit more in the future offspring, then you cvould sell them for a nice buck.
In the serious guppy scene, we call a strain a strain when they breed for at least, 95% true. For you need to know that most current fancy guppy strains are results of crosses. And it's always possible that even in a true breeding strain some throwbacks can occur as long as they carry the genes of the ancestors.
I've been mentioning deliberately "most strains" for one can also linebreed natural mutations till a new strain. And even in the beginning when they were introduced into the aquarium world, fancy strains were the result of linebreeding natural mutations.
I deliberately mentioned "phenotypically a tiger doublesword guppy" for it's still the question what he's genotypically. For I've read that he came from a mix. The red in his dorsal does already say that he's got some red influence in his genes as well. If you could linebreed him so that his swords will become more clean in shape and his dorsal a bit more extended than it is right now, you could make a nice strain out of it. The pattern on his body is already well developed. So, that would already be a good base. The current problem are is in the fins. And if the lace pattern in the caudal could develop a bit more in the future offspring, then you cvould sell them for a nice buck.
In the serious guppy scene, we call a strain a strain when they breed for at least, 95% true. For you need to know that most current fancy guppy strains are results of crosses. And it's always possible that even in a true breeding strain some throwbacks can occur as long as they carry the genes of the ancestors.
I've been mentioning deliberately "most strains" for one can also linebreed natural mutations till a new strain. And even in the beginning when they were introduced into the aquarium world, fancy strains were the result of linebreeding natural mutations.
The pattern between the red lines will determine whether it will be a cobra, snakeskin or tiger guppy.
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