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i been doing bettas for 9 years and still dont know everything

i have two HB red deltas, and if i X them to pure pastel, what will i get.

"What is the problem when the gills are red in guppies"

This is not a guppy problem, but a health condition any fish could get, related to water quality or disease.
You should make a post in the fish hospital so the pros in here can help you better.

To allow them to help you best, test your water, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, ph etc.. And any environmental factor you can think of such as temp, size of tank, how many fish, # of times you water change and how much, how many times you feed etc.. Have you added any new fish recently, any recent losses of fish and symptoms ?

I hope your guppies get well soon.

The Amazon Nut...

To be truthful i never heard of the liveberror association. But i know about your tail fin question, I have delta tailed and fan tailed at the moment and i hope to get some flag tails.I have snaik skin gups
and a my own (i guess ) variation of red and snaikskin mix.

OH DUDE_DUDE the femail can causs some color in the Fry

off the top of my head theres delta, flag, fan, siccor, and aluviated (this is not corrrect spelling) tail varriants, but i have a book that has the others

-NewBreeder16

Last edited by NewBreeder16 at 18-Jul-2005 09:34

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Are we quizing newbreeder here or can anyone answer??

Ouch

When breeding them would it make a difference to what the male fry look like depending on what the mum looks like?

Fin shape is one of those many traits in guppies which is carried in the genetics of the parents. How many different recognized isolated fin shape types are possible?

A master of guppies, but I do not see you listed as a member of the American Livebearer Association. Why not? It is the recognized authority in the United States where you could share a lot of your knowledge.

Any current strains you are working on and any for sale?

Pics of your breeding setups? Tips for the beginning breeders out there?

Koi

Empty chairs at empty tables, the room silent, forlorn.

From:NewBreeder16, no longer new but new name is hard to come by
To: pheonix

to breed liveberrers you need water. that is pretty much true. The males are very readyto breed.
Sea salt will aid their health, the box will tell you how much to put, and the ten gallon will be perfect. You'll have to get rid of some after a while because your population will rise faster than you think. You'll want a
well planted side of the tank and alot of swiming space. To save the most babies you'll want a liveberrer baby catcher(i don;t remember the name of it)just put the female into it and youll be fine.

-NewBreeder16 if i left something out just say so.

Last edited by NewBreeder16 at 15-Jul-2005 09:15

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question for the orignal poster:

What is required to breed livebearers? What should a tank look like and is ten gallons adequate?

To: bettachris
Its hard to tell what you'll get.Most of the time you get some of your mother and father colors with some combinations here and there. tails will usually be half and half on their shape.
-NewBreeder16


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To: Hello Fishy
The only thing aggressive about guppies is thire want to breed. Males will try to"breed" almost anything if no females are pressent.That is most likely what was going on.
-NewBreeder16 hope that helps

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To:jamie
I have only been breeding for a year, but i have read countless books and countless web sites. I also have gatten tips from old prose too.
-NewBreeder16

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I know almost every thing about GUPPIES if you have a question i will be there for ya.
-NewBreeder16

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Hi! I have one small male guppy, and three swordtails, one male, two female.But the guppy has to be put into another tank-because it attacks my male swordtail! Is the guppy just aggressive? Or is there somthing wrong? I hope you know the answer.

alrighty then i will edit in a bit with her size

How long have you been breeding guppies?

Nicely done. Drat, and here I wanted to stump you... not that I had any terribly hard questions.

Fishy - I'd like to point out that your ____'s will look a different size on different monitors. Pull out a ruler and take a measurement instead. My screen is set at 1600x1200, which means I can fit four of the normal 800x600 sized screenshots into the same space. It also means that things appear smaller.

My girl was a decent sized, but certainly not of monster proportions. I just don't know what happened, because she showed no signs of illness. *shrugs*

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

Ok, they average life span is 4-5 years(if cared for extra extra well) the colors of your first question would be a few mixed colors and a few of each of the original colors*takes a deep breath* and the final question is a toss up.*lets out rest of air*.
That was a harder question than what i thought was coming.
-NewBreeder16

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kitten, my art teacher has had some females grow to be __________________ (no kidding here) and i think her said they were 3+ years living in a 30 gallon filled with other guppies...strangethe males r tint though ___________ thats about it

If you mix bright orange/yellow females with pastel males (one each baby blue, pink and yellow) what will the resulting fry look like? Cause those are my new guppies, and I wonder what will come of the females, which I assume are pregnant.

As for line breeding... if say, third generation of line breeding throws more wild-color males than fancies, what are the odds of one of those wilds - when bred back to his fancy sisters - will throw fancies? I've only got the one male left from my original spat of breeding, and am pondering letting him loose amongst his sisters. For that matter, why would all the females have been the yellow leopard print while the males were a mix of wild and leopard?

Have I stumped you yet? How about average lifespan? I had my eldest girl for 1.5+ years and all of a sudden, found her dead with no obvious signs of why. And she wasn't even overbred like some guppies... she had maybe four drops her entire life, all early on. She was healthy one day and dead the next.

So... riddle me that!

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

Hardy har har, good one man.
-NewBreeder16

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