Daven
Aquarium Advice Freak
A broad question, I know. Let me explain why I'm interested quick... I've spent the last year sinking deeper and deeper into fishkeeping from small community to my adored mbuna cichlid tank. But I haven't had any fish breed for me yet aside from the guppies I started with. Although soon I hope to see my young mbuna reach breeding age! I would love to see some fry from them, but because I have some species that will crossbreed, I wouldn't want to let them leave my tanks.
I love the colours of the male guppies and like to keep a few single males of different colours in my peaceful ones. But I removed the females to allow room for schools since they never stop breeding lol. The wide variety of colours and shapes out there make me wonder if I could kind of customize my own guppy strain to my own tastes. So I am making this thread to learn a bit of what's possible and whats not when it comes to breeding guppies, and decide wether or not to try my hand at breeding them myself casually.
So how does it work? Say i have two example strains, say one with orange leopard print patterning and one with a solid blue tail... Would breeding these two together eventually make a blue coloured leopard pattern, or instead turn out to be some blue and some orange leopard? Is it more or less about trying to change tail shapes?
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I love the colours of the male guppies and like to keep a few single males of different colours in my peaceful ones. But I removed the females to allow room for schools since they never stop breeding lol. The wide variety of colours and shapes out there make me wonder if I could kind of customize my own guppy strain to my own tastes. So I am making this thread to learn a bit of what's possible and whats not when it comes to breeding guppies, and decide wether or not to try my hand at breeding them myself casually.
So how does it work? Say i have two example strains, say one with orange leopard print patterning and one with a solid blue tail... Would breeding these two together eventually make a blue coloured leopard pattern, or instead turn out to be some blue and some orange leopard? Is it more or less about trying to change tail shapes?
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