TwoFish
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
As an experiment I tossed a female guppy in with some male endler's live bearers.
One of the males born is just, well, he's really special! He's got a very neat fringy end to his tail that, combined with the orange-red coloring, looks a bit like he's on fire.
I'd very much like to try and isolate him and see if I can't successfully produce a few more like him (just for myself, really, he's just so beautiful!).
I have a few females born at about the same time as him that have, what I think, look like similar markings as his. Should I isolate him with those females and see what happens or....?
Also, I've noticed that both my guppies and my endlers produce far more female fry than male, is this an environmental factor (IE water temperature?) or just a coincidence?
Thanks!
My little Phoenix, you can clearly see the "fringe" in the second photo (sorry the photos are so blurry, he was doing the "love me" dance):
One of the males born is just, well, he's really special! He's got a very neat fringy end to his tail that, combined with the orange-red coloring, looks a bit like he's on fire.
I'd very much like to try and isolate him and see if I can't successfully produce a few more like him (just for myself, really, he's just so beautiful!).
I have a few females born at about the same time as him that have, what I think, look like similar markings as his. Should I isolate him with those females and see what happens or....?
Also, I've noticed that both my guppies and my endlers produce far more female fry than male, is this an environmental factor (IE water temperature?) or just a coincidence?
Thanks!
My little Phoenix, you can clearly see the "fringe" in the second photo (sorry the photos are so blurry, he was doing the "love me" dance):