Recent content by lynmccoy

Take a old piece of knee-hi-hose and put it around your intake valve if you have a power filter when your fry are born. Otherwise they will get sucked up. I learned that the hard way.Or if you have an old aquarium net you can cut that from the frame and use it. I use sponge filters now,got tired...

I don't have a digital camera or I would. The guppy has a silvery gray head that starts turning pale blue all the way to the tail,kinda like if it had been painted with watercolors.We would've bred it anyway, most likely with a fancy cause we're kinda curious like that. I'll still get some lyre...

Thanks, now I know how to tell the difference. I just saw the dark colored dot and immediately assumed female. So in it went with my females. It's a pretty pale blue color though. What do you think a cross between a fancy guppy and a lyre-tailed guppy is going to look like? It sure looked happy...

My sister brought me 2 pale blue lyre-tailed guppies. The clerk at Pet Smart told her that day shift had mixed the males and females together and they got everyone separated but these and the swordtails. I looked at the smaller one and it has a black spot so I put it in with my females. But...

fish shops in Virginia Are there any aquarium shops or pet shop that carry freshwater tropical fish is Southwest Virginia?

You can,but only the few varieties that they have. I have asked the local fish store,PetSmart,PetCo to order other kinds of guppies that I want and they all tell me that they only sell what the parent company sends them and the parent company won't take special orders,even prepaid.It seems like...

Iam definately interested in your guppies. The only problem is that is I am new to aquarium addiction and don't have very many guppies myself. Would you consider selling them?

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...

I was think about adding some new kinds of small fish no bigger than my guppies to my 55g tank. Which ones will get alng will them and not bother their fins. Also I heard that some other species of tropical fish could be bread with guppies. Is this true or someone's idea of a joke?

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...

Is it true that guppies and mollies and cross breed? I've read that and didnt know if it was true. If it is, what kind of babies do they have and are the mollies a good addition choice for my 55g male guppy tank or so it be my 20g female tank?

That's something I would have a problem with, raising fish to feed them to other fish. I know it has to be done, but I couldn't do it.The ones that can are a lot stronger than I am.

I bought 6 female guppies now 32 days ago and 3 were already pregnant. These 3 have still have not had their babies! The temperature is right, I have ground cover. They are in their own tank so there's no stress from the males.For the last week they have been putting food in their mouth and...

I do have a half black female who will not let any male around her except another half black male or full black male. But Miss Picky is the only one who is particular like that. That's the name my granddaughter named her. We really wanted to breed her to our big mettalic blue male or our big...

Has anyone tried cross-breeding a blue moscow with a white moscow just to see what kind of fry they will produce? My granddaughter and I were looking at our fish and wondered what kinds of guppies we could create by mixing different kinds. I'm not trying to make a perfect strain and I don't...