One unique short-body guppy

[gu2high]

I have a unique short-body female guppy raised from a breed of fry. All others have long normal guppy body, but this one has very short body between its abdomen to the tail. Now it is about 3 months old. I wonder should I use it for breeding to produce a specific strain. Any suggestion?

 

[zenkatydid]

it sounds deformed to me, i wouldn't breed it. i have a number of guppies with spinal deformities, i always remove them from the gene pool as i don't want to be producing more of them.

 

[cinnastix911]

out of curiosity... can you put up pics?

 

[black hills tj]

sounds stunted to me, I'd keep it away from the mating guppies myself

 

[cinnastix911]

It may be one messed up fish- but is definitly quirky/cute.

 

[theotheragentm]

That fish does look good. How well does it swim?

 

[gu2high]

It swims very well and everything is normal except its body. Actually, I feel it is better look than normal guppy. Her mother guppy is a long body one as normal guppy, which I feel their bodies a bit of too long. This one is somewhat more like a platy or molly body. I may use it to produce somekind of medium body guppy.

 

[cinnastix911]

If you ever have too many send them my way- I finally found a taker for my evil catfish