trying to find interesting breeds of mollies, platies, sworatails

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chrismercer

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Well my current pairs are as follows:

mollies:
4 dalmation lyretail
1 cremecicle lyretail

platies:
3 sunburst
2 red wag
2 gold twin bar
1 green painted (i am guess thats what he is....green body, red fins and face/lower belly)

swordtails:
3 brick red


I am looking to introduce a few nice variations for some cross breeding. any suggestions? I do not like balloon molies.

Thanks!
 
black lyretail molly
silver molly
sailfin molly
Dalmation Molly
Red Leopard Molly

sorry don't know scientific names i am sure if you google them you will find something though

or you could just go into your lfs and pick out whatever nice ones you see i know here they bread them in a tank out the back so everything is crossbred so you can find some very nice colors in there
 
I thin Dalmation Mollys look very cool
http://www.****************/images_01/dalmatian_molly_w270.jpg

I recal my brother having a very intresting looking platty, it was red and had a blue tail. But I forget what it was called.
 
Chrismercer, you don't say how many tanks you are keeping. The mollies don't care what color or fin type they breed with and the platies don't care what color or fin type they breed with. Its even possible, but not as likely that the sword will breed with platies. If you have not already separated the variuos colors and fin shapes, its likely that you will be unable to predict what you will get when a female drops fry. It would take at least 4 or 5 tanks just to separate what you already have into tanks that would let the fish breed true to color. Your crossbreeding is already going strong unless these guys are separated. People often notice skin color differences and such but fish do not. There has been some research that shows that all fish, males and females, prefer other fish that more resemble the wild fish colors but that does not mean they prefer whatever color they happen to be. My guess is that the colors we see in the wild fish are because of the fish's preference for that color combination, not the other way around.
 
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I think the Bleeding Heart Platy (or Tiger Platy, or whatever they're calling it these days) looks kinda interesting.

I'm not much into "balloon" fish either. Although, I don't find the Balloon Molly quite as bad as the balloon varieties of Flagfish and Rams.
 
Lupin said:
Because they are actually deformed.
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My thoughts exactly.

Rather than piddling around with different but commonplace livebearers, why not contact a livebearer association and source some of the rarer species of Xiphophorus or Poecilia and breed them - do not however cross them with the common swordtails, platys or mollies. Far more interesting. Baensch Vol 2 has some wonderful fish which are very rarely kept.
 
Try aqua bid.
 
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