New killifish pair

[Rainbow_fish]

Got a golden lyretail pair today. I needed the male because i have a lone female after the last male died. The female of this new pair has a blue tinge and has more rounded fins than my orange, pointy finned older female. Could this still be a golden lyre tail?

John

 

[The-Wolf]

I have no idea but this should be in the odballs section. You will get more responses there.

 

[joshua]

Australe Gold Pic

Compare yours with the one in the pic.

Honestly it's pretty hard as female killies are almost all drab and kinda look the same.

And danio2004, killies are not oddballs, if anything, carps.

 

[The-Wolf]

And danio2004, killies are not oddballs, if anything, carps.

On this site they are classed as oddballs. I belive this is due to the lack of keepers with any experiance with them, I may be worong on that point.
Whether I aggree or not with that choice is not at issue here, I was mearly pointing out where the postee could get the most help.

 

[noelberg]

There are a few color types of the "Aphyosemion australe" killie (which i assume you have). There are also other lyretail killies, but I doubt that somebody would give you a male and female of different species. This female could have come from a different region than your other female - which is very good to discourage inbreeding.

If you're trying to breed them, then i recommend getting another male or keeping a close watch on the eggs - possibly having another tank to put them into. Trios (male + 2 females) sometime result in the odd female eating the other's eggs.

 

[joshua]

There are a few color types of the "Aphyosemion australe" killie (which i assume you have). There are also other lyretail killies, but I doubt that somebody would give you a male and female of different species. This female could have come from a different region than your other female - which is very good to discourage inbreeding.

If you're trying to breed them, then i recommend getting another male or keeping a close watch on the eggs - possibly having another tank to put them into. Trios (male + 2 females) sometime result in the odd female eating the other's eggs.

Most commonly would be the chocolate, orange and gold color ones. About your view on inbreeding, it is definitely true for other fish but not for killies; which have a small gene pool and inbreeding does not pose any problems.

Letting killies of different species breed together would produce a high chance of fry being infertile and most of the features erroneously attributed to "inbreeding."