the fancy guppy you see today in stores is a domesticated version of the Endler's Livebearer, which you may also see in the feeder guppy tanks. people started breeding them, and, well, i know that in the case of guppies, a breeder, finds a cool strain of color, or finage size or shape, and wants to preserve it, so sometimes the only way is to inbreed them, which makes many more of the same color strain, but it also weakens the fish.
now the females are being targerted to become more colorful too, and some have succeded in doing so, but they will never have the same finage or colors as the males.
the same thing is applyed to betta females. i have seen purple, redd, blue, white, all of the colors, but they are all uniform in finage size and shpe, where as the male bettas a little ways aways have the same colors but long, flowing fins and such
im not so sure about the goldfish though. its hard to say, since there have been strains for hundreds of years, but i think that sombody found a good form and made more of it. the worst i have seen is the celestial, with eyes that ony face up *shudder*
now the females are being targerted to become more colorful too, and some have succeded in doing so, but they will never have the same finage or colors as the males.
the same thing is applyed to betta females. i have seen purple, redd, blue, white, all of the colors, but they are all uniform in finage size and shpe, where as the male bettas a little ways aways have the same colors but long, flowing fins and such
im not so sure about the goldfish though. its hard to say, since there have been strains for hundreds of years, but i think that sombody found a good form and made more of it. the worst i have seen is the celestial, with eyes that ony face up *shudder*
The water temp was as close as I could get it. The coldest my water gets is 78F from the faucet. The tank temp was 75-76F. I wouldn't think 2 degrees would kill a fish so quickly though...... The water was treated with prime just seconds after the water started the fill the tank. I still find it hard to believe that the few seconds of untreated water would be the cause seeing that I do the same with all my tanks but perhaps I should treat before turning on the water? The biggest thing that I find confusing is that in a matter of approx 30 seconds she went from appearing 100% healthy to not being able to swim, to dead.