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How do you know if you are getting TRUE endler's. Even if you catch them wild yourself, how do you know that is exactly what they are?

Is there a very reputable source?

I would like to devote a tank to them, but I can only find males, and with how this forum insists that almost no one has real Endler's, how is one to know?

Are there color variations in "true" Endler's?

Are offspring of guppies and Endler's sterile?

Thank you for any answers or opinions given.


All information that I can get on them indicates that they are a different "race" of guppy, not a different species.

I wonder the same thing.. from pictures I have seen on this website from others, I do have true endlers, but others will say "no you dont you cant its not possible" but i beg to differ, so you'll be interested in the answers you get on here... good luck with that! but in the end they are fun fish!

72 gallon bowfront:Tanganyikan Lake set up
75 gallon: A. Baenschi trio,Cyanotilapia Afra Cobwe(4), copadichromis trewavase, protomelas sp. tangerine tiger(breeding pair)

ive asked my self the same quetions over and over to my self and i still dont know so if eny one dose know on this whole sight please tell all of us but seroulsy i hd some endlers and guppies but i dont think they were true endlers but if u do fined out please let me know because im just as creuse as u are lol well good luck finding out about your endler debate i wish i could have helped u more

Here's my way of telling... If it's mostly purple/blue/pink, it's a guppy. If it's mostly green/orange, it's an Endler's. Endler's also tend to have more black coloration. If you found it in a feeder guppy tank, don't count on it being an Endler's, or at least not a purebred one.

Of course there are exceptions to this, but it's just a general rule that I find to be pretty accurate most of the time.





Last edited by Cory Addict at 14-Sep-2005 19:25

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

my grandpa when he was younger had a fish tank when my mom was growing up, he went and got some "guppies" but now that i am around() and know some things, they are endlers. he wasan't really into fish, so he never got other guppies, b/c they just kept breeding, no in a 5-10 gallon(cant really tell) hes got about 200 endlers.(not my tank, or place to tell him.) so from what i noticed, since i cant house them at my house(can't match the bad water conditions) is that yes they breed, and most are usually light color, with orange, and only upper/bottom swords, nothing usually fancy, like albinos or deltas.

If you go to www.endlersr.us.com you will find a site dedicated to Endlers and look for the link to "Swamp River".