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i have a guppie in my tank that looks very much like one they sell at the lfs, i was wondering what it was. I didnt buy it so i dont know the name, it just kinda came out and grew up and looks very simmilar to one i have seen.http://s201.photobucket.com/albums/aa123/jacobkgreen/aquarium%20fish/?action=view&current=looktheresagreenspot.jpg
any ideas on what it is let me know!
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I found a fellow that looks like he might be like yours. Check out this link for a male multi-color guppy:

http://www.petsolutions.com/Male-Multi-Color-Guppy+I19610+C40001586.aspx

Poecilia reticulata is the scientific name I found. I hope this helps or gives you a place to search further.

good luck man!
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thank you scott, as we had talked about earlyer, it might be a multi-color, but im not quite sure, i'll do some digging and see what i can turn up.
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here another one i cant figure out all the way, and i have a few more in the tank that have markings just like it on the tail and body, but not the same color

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa123/jacobkgreen/aquarium%20fish/Pertyguppy.jpg
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The lines on the tail are called a cobra pattern. http://webpages.csus.edu/~qn22/cobra%20guppy.htm

Most guppies sold at lfs are just a mix of whatever. They don't breed them for true colors. Occasionally you get a tank of solid colored guppies with some made up color name but unless your really breeding for a specific line they probably won't match most colors out there. Most of the time though even the named colors are just made up by whoever is breeding them or whatever store is selling them and isn't official in any way.
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Around where I live, this color of guppy is called Tequila Sunrise. Usually they have a creamy blondish body, but sometimes its greenish or blueish.


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i'v seen so many diffrent names for guppies my heads spinning... the sunrise guppies were what i started off with, and one tuxedo. Now i have a mix of tuxedo/t.sunrise/corba, where the corba came into play i dont know but it started showing up about a month agao. And now i have green(probly from the sunrise) and a bluish purple(probly the tux). most of my females now have mainly orange tails, with blue and green and yellow mixed into them, kind of like a rainbow.
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If you keep mixing guppy colors eventually you get back to the wild guppy. These have just little dots of every color on them. Go take a look at the feeders at any store. You have to breed the colors back to each other to continue them or you just end up with an increasing mix. I do kind of like some feeder guppies. They can still be rather brightly marked. http://exoticaquarium.com/education/images/guppy.jpg

After awhile though if you just keep breeding indescriminately and don't weed out the less colorful ones you end up with mostly plain fish that just have a few dots of color. http://biology.unm.edu/biology/kodric/guppie.jpg
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ahh... ic, i did not know that.
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