Not sure whether these questions were answered:
Would different types of guppies happily live together, or will they pretty much ignore those that are of a different species to them? Would different colourings bother them at all? (I don't know if say a blue guppy and a green guppy would be considered seperate species')
All guppies are exactly the same species - Poecilia reticulata. The only difference is color. As such, they interbreed and behave normaly towards each other. If anything, different colored guppies (when breeding) are more likely to mate because they are more likely to be unrelated (there is pressure in the wild to avoid inbreeding so guppies have evolved to feel more 'attracted' to fish that look different color-wise. Even in the wild, guppy coloration varies widely.
I also quite like endler's livebearers. How will these get on with the guppies? Again I was planning on just getting only males as I know they too are constant breeders - would it be a bad idea to get these? I might eventually get some female guppies too and I heard it was a bad idea to let the endler's breed with the guppies.
If you stick with all males, this would be fine. Endler's are practically identical to guppies, though, so they will interbreed if you add females. This is ocnsidered undesireable because you are depleating the Endler's gene pool by doing this - and it's already rather limmited. Instead of Endler's, consider some of the small, double-sword guppies that you sometimes see at LFSs. These are, at least in part, Endler's hybrids anyway. In fact, many guppy strains have Endler's in their anscestry.
This is probably a really stupid question, but could anyone tell me the average length of a fancy guppy and a 'wild' guppy - including tail length? Apparently most sites don't actually include the tail in their length and I don't want there to be too much tail in my tank, haha.
Including tail, both sexes average out at around 1.5-2". the males have smaller bodies - but bigger tails
Of course, some strains grow larger than others and there are many different tail types.
Would different types of guppies happily live together, or will they pretty much ignore those that are of a different species to them? Would different colourings bother them at all? (I don't know if say a blue guppy and a green guppy would be considered seperate species')
All guppies are exactly the same species - Poecilia reticulata. The only difference is color. As such, they interbreed and behave normaly towards each other. If anything, different colored guppies (when breeding) are more likely to mate because they are more likely to be unrelated (there is pressure in the wild to avoid inbreeding so guppies have evolved to feel more 'attracted' to fish that look different color-wise. Even in the wild, guppy coloration varies widely.
I also quite like endler's livebearers. How will these get on with the guppies? Again I was planning on just getting only males as I know they too are constant breeders - would it be a bad idea to get these? I might eventually get some female guppies too and I heard it was a bad idea to let the endler's breed with the guppies.
If you stick with all males, this would be fine. Endler's are practically identical to guppies, though, so they will interbreed if you add females. This is ocnsidered undesireable because you are depleating the Endler's gene pool by doing this - and it's already rather limmited. Instead of Endler's, consider some of the small, double-sword guppies that you sometimes see at LFSs. These are, at least in part, Endler's hybrids anyway. In fact, many guppy strains have Endler's in their anscestry.
This is probably a really stupid question, but could anyone tell me the average length of a fancy guppy and a 'wild' guppy - including tail length? Apparently most sites don't actually include the tail in their length and I don't want there to be too much tail in my tank, haha.
Including tail, both sexes average out at around 1.5-2". the males have smaller bodies - but bigger tails
Of course, some strains grow larger than others and there are many different tail types.
