Laurie
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What other species besides platies, swordtails and guppies are there?
Live bearers
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jetajockey
come get me tang police!
A few off the top of my head would be halfbeaks, anableps, and least killifish.
tamtam
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some other more common ones are Mollys and Endlers.
I'm not a 100% on the endlers I've heard they are just another type of guppy but I've also heard that people have just cross bred the two and this has created confusion. They are very lovely looking fish either way.
I'm not a 100% on the endlers I've heard they are just another type of guppy but I've also heard that people have just cross bred the two and this has created confusion. They are very lovely looking fish either way.
jetajockey
come get me tang police!
Endlers are guppies, from what I've read they were given their own species classification to help differentiate the locality variant for the sake of preservation. Not 100% on that but it does sound plausible. They do interbreed regularly and easily, and I've not had or seen any of the deformity, sterility, and high death rate issues that is common with hybridization of more distant "relatives."
The two are interbred so commonly now that I wouldn't bother keeping an endler-only tank unless you know that the line you have can be traced back to collection. (n-class)
The two are interbred so commonly now that I wouldn't bother keeping an endler-only tank unless you know that the line you have can be traced back to collection. (n-class)
bettaowner
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Limias, freshwater rays, and some marine sharks are live bearers.
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