Breeding Lyretail Guppies!

[maddybrat]

Hi,
So I went to PETCO and They didn't have any Fancy Guppies in stock like I had wanted. They them introduced me to a new Guppy they just got. It is called a Lyretail Guppy. I don't know anything about them. I would like help sexing them. And I would also like to breed them. Any help with that would be helpful..
thanks,
Maddy..

 

[jetajockey]

Sex them the way you sex other guppies, they are the same species just a different strain variant.

 

[maddybrat]

I don't know how to do that...

 

[jetajockey]

males have a gonopodium, a long skinny fin on their underside. Google for pics.

 

[maddybrat]

When I put them into my tank(after it is done being heated[just got my heater]) I will post some pics and hopefully my fish lovin friends will be able to help me!

 

[maddybrat]

Fancy guppy excited to play with her new friends!!

 

[maddybrat]

Boy girl?

 

[Tasha]

looks male to me, unless he just has his fin pulled up tight.

 

[maddybrat]

Sorry.. /: I had six but one died.. My snail ate it...

 

[lynmccoy]

Lyre-Tail guppies are really beautiful fish and they came in a lot of varieties. You can breed them with other lyre-tails to keep the tail pure or you can cross breed them with a fancy guppy to get some unusual tail on the guppies. Those look like swallow-tails. My friend that cross breeds says that the lyre-tail males should be bred with the fancy guppy female to produce to swallow tail look. She has given me 3 and they are gorgeous.

 

[GuppyLover]

Lyre-Tail guppies are really beautiful fish and they came in a lot of varieties. You can breed them with other lyre-tails to keep the tail pure or you can cross breed them with a fancy guppy to get some unusual tail on the guppies. Those look like swallow-tails. My friend that cross breeds says that the lyre-tail males should be bred with the fancy guppy female to produce to swallow tail look. She has given me 3 and they are gorgeous.

I know this is a old thread but, Swallow tails? I want some pics :] I was wondering what would happen when I breed my male lyre to my fancy tail females.

 

[lynmccoy]

I don't have a digital camera or I would take pictures of the ones I have. I loaned mine to a relative to take on vacation and it got stepped on and broken. I was promised a replacement but that was last summer. I don't loan things out anymore,cause I am tired of learning the hard way about trust. The cross between a lyretail and a fancy tail makes a beautiful guppy.

 

[GuppyLover]

Oh I know full well about that, whenever we loan things to my siblings they end up broken. We loaned a camera to my Brother and he lost it