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bettachris Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004	i just in the mood for guppies. right now i have one large female and a endler male. now i am waiting for one of those guppy blooms. i haven't gotton it yet. but n.e way, then next time i go up to my wholesaler i might get about20 pairs. now how old do u think it will take for me to get hunreds of guppies. and some good lines.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:47
Natalie Ultimate Fish Guru Apolay Wayyioy Posts: 4499 Kudos: 3730 Votes: 348 Registered: 01-Feb-2003	I hope you aren't breeding that guppy and Endler's livebearer together... I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:47
Hoa dude_dude Mega Fish Posts: 957 Kudos: 888 Votes: 72 Registered: 28-Dec-2004	Why?
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:47
FishyCharacter Hobbyist Posts: 129 Kudos: 132 Votes: 1 Registered: 14-May-2004	They may breed but eh offspring will be sterile (supposedly). And a lot of people don't like hybrids and want to keep the different strains more pure.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:47
Natalie Ultimate Fish Guru Apolay Wayyioy Posts: 4499 Kudos: 3730 Votes: 348 Registered: 01-Feb-2003	Endler's livebearers are very rare in the wild, in fact some people even say they are extinct. Therefore, we must preserve this species the best we can in the hobby. Endler's livebearers are pretty special fish, whereas guppies are just... You get the point... Hybrids, and especially hybrids between Endler's livebearers and guppies, are frowned upon by most people in the hobby. I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:47
CoasterCarl999 Hobbyist Posts: 70 Kudos: 77 Votes: 0 Registered: 16-Dec-2003	Yup, in my experience, hybrids between guppys and endlers tend to be weaker, and they have never bred for me, which is odd if they have guppy blood in them. This makes me think that they are sterile. They were in a tank with male and female guppies as well, and there were male and female endler/guppy crosses. None of them ever bred to produce endler crosses, which leads me to beleive that both males and females are sterile.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:47
bettachris Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004	umm. i want to make a hybred line, but i am also panning on trying to breed a pure line. like i may have said my grandpa has a pure endler line for more than 30 years. but i see why this has came up. in this case i now don't think that breeding them as hybreds is a good idea. whatwould probably be best is to keep them in seperate tanks.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:47
CoasterCarl999 Hobbyist Posts: 70 Kudos: 77 Votes: 0 Registered: 16-Dec-2003	Chris, it would probably be impossible to create a hybrid strain. This is simply because they are sterile and also because they are 2 separate species. Even if they were not sterile, their children would not all be 50/50. Some would be 25/75, some 50/50, some 100/0, some 0/100, and some 75/25. The offspring of that generation would be even more varied.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:47
bettachris Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004	not always true. i have seen albino endlers which have been bred to fancy strains, and have been breed back to endlers.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:47


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