When you say endler blackbar/red double sword hybrids; does that mean that the red double swords are guppies? Are they a cross between a endler and a guppy?
Thanks.
I didn't see your post earlier, sorry I didn't reply sooner.
No.. none of them are guppies and I'm not breeding them with guppies. At some point in their lineage, they got bred with I don't know what. Maybe guppies sometime in the past.. or maybe just mixed with other cultivated strains of Endlers.
About their source.... I got different batches from a breeder named George (not from AC). They're all Endlers, not guppies. But since George referred to them as hybrids, I knew they're not pure strain or from wild stock. All the offspring they've thrown come out with Endler bodies and markings. Most of them look exactly like black bar endlers with the red double sword tail. But there are some variations... in some of the offspring, the clear part of the tail that isn't normally visible comes out solid black instead of clear (still with the red double sword). And some of them have more blue or white color marks that show up in the same basic endler pattern. They're all very bold, striking... and just beautiful. Personally, I really like having a little pattern variation in the markings instead of them all looking identical.
I've been breeding them for a while now so I have a couple of hundred of them to sell. I'm also planning to take some serious photos of them so you can see what the variant markings look like too. Since I have so many, you could just wait until I get the photos to post here if you're not sure about them yet.