Nope, just got her from a casual petshop, so she was in a tank with other guppies. They did have more of these and they look alike. The males are orange and blond with a yellow tail. She's close to having the rest of her fry. I just think the luminous effect is really cool and want more of those, in different variations.Did you purchase the females out of a tank that had all the same type of females. The same question for the males. With out any other color variations with them?
Females can give birth for 6 months after being in a tank with a male!
Does anyone have any experience with breeding neon guppies? And so, did you mix them with other patterns? What color variations did you have? Please let me know
Firstly, thank you for the effort you took to reply. I really appreciate it!In general when you buy from a dutch lfs and there are tanks with mix guppies in it and they've come from a wholesale dealer (there are several stores which just purchase random guppies from a local breeder) for sure, then those females came most likely (so, no guarantee that other wholesale dealer haven't mixed them in their tanks) from tanks that weren't mixed to start with. I've been at specific wholesale dealers in Holland and these strains had seperate tanks.
But it's a price technical issue why most dutch lfs's order a mix. They can pay less when it's a mix. When you order a specific strain (male or female), they do cost a bit more. I used to help out an lfs a few years ago and helped purchasing fish.
Another friend of mine who I know for 36 years now is also providing a certain number of dutch wholesale dealers with livebearers (certain guppies and endlers included) and crustaceans for many years now. So, not all fish and crustaceans at the dutch wholesale dealer are ordered in Thailand, Czech republic, Malaysia, Indonesia, Israel, Poland and Japan (these are the most common countries where dutch wholesale dealers order their fish from). And when my friend needs a strain to launch as a new commercial strain, he asks me on a regular bases if I can provide him a shoal out of my own stock or if I can provide him out of my network. I myself am active within the field of rare livebearers (which includes also rare strains of guppies and endlers). Last year for instance, the albino koi guppies were introduced by him as a commercial strain in Holland. He was already asking me a year before. I already knew these guppies from the championships and shows which I've participated the past few years. It just took a while before I could manage it to have a large number of these guppies come over from Germany (good friends of mine and they're also fantastic guppy breeders) to Holland. So, my friend would be able to breed these guppies in large numbers as well to get them on the commercial market in 2016.
But this neon guppy is a commercial strain in Holland. But I do have to say, it's a nice strain though...
I don't know what your goal is with this female. Would you like to mix it or breed the neon strain? In both cases, I would let her drop her fry first and let them grow up. If they turn out the same as the mother than you'll know that it's most likely that the offspring will be both phenotypical and genotypical the same. The offspring will be all virgins and better to work with to accomplish your goal. Trying to crossbreed the mother is tricky for you don't know how much semen packages she has already stored.
Have a great weekend...
Thanks for the reply!Check out Moscow Blue Guppies and Japanese Blue Guppies too, if you like the blues.
You can see if any of the fry end up being colored the same as the blue you want, segregate the same colored ones and keep that up for 6 months or so and then they will start breeding with the same colors and eventually you will get more.
Females can give birth for 6 months after being in a tank with a male!
Even after a bit over a year to be more precise... But the quality of the semen will get less after such a long time.
Never heard of it! How do you do that?You could try for a pineapple colouring if you mix
Firstly, thank you for the effort you took to reply. I really appreciate it!
I think the petstore just got the guppies from random people, there were like 3 different color and patterns in the tank. Male and female were separated but I have no idea if she was a Virgin when I got her.
Are there dealers in Holland you'd recommend me? I live in Brabant, the South, but am willing to travel. I'm really interested in breeding myself, always been. I'm just new at it and need to learn the basics. I just received my first six fry (1 week old) from 3 different females and 2 males, so I have no idea what they will become. Are there other neonstrains you know?
Once again, thanks for the reply and good weekend to you too!
Never heard of it! How do you do that?