Wild Guppies

[Spader]

when i try to post a pic it say IPB image. what does that mean??

 

[blitztidus]

Pretty much means it isn't working

 

[Nevergone815]

That definately is a pineapple swordtail, I have had one myself before , here is a pic of a female and a male

A female

i would definately say that it is a female pineapple sword from that pic, but my pineapple sword female doesn't look like that although the one in his pic is from the wild and mine probably has gone through numerous lines of breeding lol

nevertheless it is a beautiful specimen of what appears to be a female swordtail. but a beautiful specimen of any fish!

 

[blitztidus]

This is the more common type to see in the US

 

[Nevergone815]

This is the more common type to see in the US

mine doesn't have the black tail like that (it has a black stripe on the bottom- in the male swords) but is orange. mine (m & f) do though have the redish/dark line down the sides like the pic. hmm i got confused little swordtails lol

the easiest way to describe mine is to say that they look like the first group of ones but have a blck line down the bottom of the "spike" in the tail (only in males), but both males and females have a dark orange along their tailends of their back and a darker orange tail (same color as back).

hmmm... i most have gotten a cross between US and others... my poor confused little fishies...

 

[blitztidus]

There are many possiblities for different types of swordtails, shape, size, and color. That is what breeding creates, new lines of genes with sometimes improved fish and other times, fish that could not last a day. It is all in the genes as explained by Charles Darwin in his theory of evolution, it is natural selection, but in these cases where we have tanks, the competiveness between species, males, females, genes, can spread easier. That is why inbreeding occurs in these environments. The breeding, let it be inbreeding or not, causes certain genes to pass down and develop. The most common change that you see in all animals is color.

Wow, that was weird, especially to come out of my mouth

 

[Nevergone815]

yea it was lol just kidding. well i thought it was just a color variation but i wonder... my fish are probably from a crop that has been inbred more than waldenites (you would need to be from orange county, ny to get this one- jokes go around of sever imbreeding ). but i love them anyways!

 

[Annastasia]

I have split off the chatty posts, please try to keep them on subject in the future.

 

[blitztidus]

Sorry, there. I will use PM next time

 

[Nevergone815]

sorry here as well, i also will use PM next time