totally confused guppies

[MickeyA]

Ok so in my 30 I had 18 female guppies 1 male fancy type and well over the last week of observing them I realized that I now have 9 females now and 9 males without color at all I verified the sex of them all before I put them in the 30 and been watching them everyday so can they change sexy and if they do will the color gene be activated in the females that changed

 

[Vegetarian fish nut]

Sometimes guppies don't mature at the same rate. In my experience and reading i have noticed that ones I thought were females are and always were males, they just mature later than the others. As far as the color gene I couldn't tell you, since guppies are livebearers and females are frequently fertilized, unless you take a virgin guppy and only one male, it's difficult to identify the father. The females often are already fertilized when you get them from the store.

 

[maestromad]

I've had a few females turn into males too lol

 

[Samzter]

Like mentioned you'll probably find that it's because they werent given enough time to mature.

 

[MickeyA]

Sometimes guppies don't mature at the same rate. In my experience and reading i have noticed that ones I thought were females are and always were males, they just mature later than the others. As far as the color gene I couldn't tell you, since guppies are livebearers and females are frequently fertilized, unless you take a virgin guppy and only one male, it's difficult to identify the father. The females often are already fertilized when you get them from the store.

Thats why I was confused all the females were 2 months old all the males that were in there group of fry have full color already