Weird fry!!

[tank212]

So I have a batch of fry about 4 5 months old and I got some weird looking fry. They are in a 10gal by themselves and the mother guppies that had these fry are in a 10gal also by themselves. Ok most of em arent weird but I got 2 one has what looks to be a long body but is like bent or something you know like the illusion with the pencil in the water looks like its bent or whatever. I got one fry that looks like a tetra!!! how the heck? It has a red stripe along its spine and has this spot behind his gills that is a color I just can't tell what it is. Could this fry be part endler? or is this normal? I have never seen this on a guppy before!!

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

It is probably a mutation from inbreeding in the fish; the usual signs in a badly inbred fish are lumps and bumps in the fry as they mature and bends in the spine causing the fish to look bent or lumpy. Unfortunatly, guppys tend to be very inbred fish so these deformitys are not that uncommon; if you want to keep breeding them i would change the males or females to help introduce new blood into their fry/bloodlines.
On the other hand, deformitys in fry can also be caused by large changes in water quality stats particually if when you bought the mother guppy from the lfs, if she was already pregnant the change in water stats from the lfs to your tank could have caused the mutations.
Either way the fry will never recover from these incidences and somtimes the best course of action is to put them down as usually these deformitys cause much trouble in the frys/fishs life.

 

[tank212]

what about the fry with the blue/green/black spot and the red coloration near the spine?

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I don't know about the spots, they could just be early coloration in the fry although the redness along the spine is probably due to the bending in the frys spines...Have they always been like this for as long as you can remember?

 

[guppymonkey]

So I have a batch of fry about 4 5 months old and I got some weird looking fry. They are in a 10gal by themselves and the mother guppies that had these fry are in a 10gal also by themselves. Ok most of em arent weird but I got 2 one has what looks to be a long body but is like bent or something you know like the illusion with the pencil in the water looks like its bent or whatever. I got one fry that looks like a tetra!!! how the heck? It has a red stripe along its spine and has this spot behind his gills that is a color I just can't tell what it is. Could this fry be part endler? or is this normal? I have never seen this on a guppy before!!

Do you mean along the top of the body or down the sides of the body? I have some guppies that are very lightly colored and you can see their brain and spine through the top of their body. If its on the top of the body it could be a major artery? Or possibly just a bright color pattern down the side that coincidentally looks like the stripes on tetras.

 

[tank212]

Actually it is just one of the fry and the spine doesnt look bent at all it reminds me of an endler kind of.