My Redback Guppies

Lady Ns

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Sep 27, 2007
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This is for Chefjamesscott, but everyone else is welcome too :)

These are some photos to show my old line of guppies I call "Redbacks". I'd been developing it for 4 years when someone put 5 large Goldfish in their tank & all but wiped them out.

Ideally, they're meant to have a solid black body, with brilliant orange or red fins. Females are the same, but are permitted to have a blue dorsal & a bright yellow colour on their other fins, but any lighter & they're no good.
These fish are 6th or 8th generation, & I'd hybridised the previous few generations with wild type guppies to remove some birthing problems & allow them to be slightly more hardy. This unforunately gave me a blue wash over most of the fish.


I was lucky enough to save 1 male & 5-6 females. Only one female gave birth, the rest died. I now have 3 males & 2 females to start the line again, & I'll use the same methods I used before. They are exceptional fish, for a guppy, & they don't have the erradic breeding some other guppies do, as hard to believe as that is :)

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Sounds like a lot of work! The color is very pretty - thanks for sharing.
 
Sweet guppies, Lady!
 
Sharp gups!
 
Cheers guys. I kind of figured they'd be something new & fun to work with. I used to be able to stick my hand in the tank & have every single fish come & rub against me wanting to know what's up. I miss those little buggas.
 
thats awesome! i want to start breeding guppies for selected traits and maybe even bring out a new strain.

do you know of any good links for guppy breeding guidelines?
 
very nice pics

quite the stiking coloration, I would imagine it took a lot of work to get them to that point. to bad to hear that someone put some goldies in with them.

I have a 20g guppy tank now set up for the ones I rescued from swimming in the circular bowl of white death.
 
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