what livebearers cross bread with each other if you guys can give me a list it will be greatly appriceated
what livebearers cross breed?
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Nope. Swordtails and guppies are from different genera hence it's not possible for them to crossbreed. Swordtails and platies can crossbreed with other Xiphophorus species.
o because i saw somebody online with guggys and...something else...mollies! o thats it anyone heard of that?
Mollies and Guppies can cross breed. Their offspring normally don't survive to adulthood and if the do, they are generally sterile. I have some, because I foolishly left a tiny male Guppy with the rest of my all female Mollies.
okay so im good because i dont like mollies to much for some unknown reason that i yet to discover lol
I would LOVE to see a pic of what this mongrel fry looks like! Everything I've ever read about the famed guppy/molly hybrid has just been hearsay. You are probably the first person I've ever spoken to that actually has seen one of these fish.
Most of the xiphophorus species will interbreed. I wonder if P. picta and P. reticulata would interbreed...
Inka, from what I've read, placing P.picta and P. reticulata together results in dead guppies. I've never wanted to try it bad enough to prove it for myself.
The various mollies will interbreed; most domestic mollies are crosses between P. latipinna and P. sphenops. The former species has the finnage; the latter the colour variation. Similarly, most domestic platys and swordtails are hybrids; this is why swordtails are small these days and platys aggressive. Contrary to a belief I've heard expressed here before, the variatus platy, X. variatus, is not a hybrid but a valid species in its own right.