Chasing Sanity Posted March 17, 2009 Report Share Posted March 17, 2009 (edited) I found some stunning male gups at the LPS that I generally refuse to buy fish at. But these are some special fish! Sorry for the blur, my good camera is having an overseas holiday! What are these gups? They have some red and a lot of blue. The tail has clear fins in between the split. Edited March 20, 2009 by Chasing Sanity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killimike Posted March 17, 2009 Report Share Posted March 17, 2009 Whatever they are, they're very nice! Not something you see every day. Some kind of lyretail? I'm not sure of all the fine distinctions in tail shape, but I'm sure someone will be able to help. Were you able to get any females? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasing Sanity Posted March 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2009 Sadly there weren't any girls otherwise they'd have come home with me too! I do want to breed these guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darennkj Posted March 17, 2009 Report Share Posted March 17, 2009 That looks like a blue scissors-tail strain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killimike Posted March 17, 2009 Report Share Posted March 17, 2009 I suppose this a another question in itself, but what is the difference between the terms 'scissortail', 'lyretail' and 'double sword'? Are there genetic, phenotypic, differences or do they mean the same thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darennkj Posted March 17, 2009 Report Share Posted March 17, 2009 Pretty sure lyretails and double swords are different. Lyretails look like a long tail that has a shorter middle (like the picture here), where a double sword has pointed ends. I am thinking scissor tails are the same as lyre tails, but I may be wrong (scissorsmight be double swords instead? seems to make more sense). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasing Sanity Posted March 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2009 I'm planning to scope out the other LPS as they all seem to get the same types of guppies in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasing Sanity Posted March 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2009 The smaller bodied one of the two may not make the night, He's very quiet and sitting either on the bottom or right at the water top, breathing heavily. The other is quite happy. Luckily I put them into my hospital tank. If the small boy doesn't make it I might go back and buy the last one that was there. I should have bought all three today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darennkj Posted March 17, 2009 Report Share Posted March 17, 2009 Was it behaving like that at the lps? Hope he pulls through. Guppies normally do that when they are all stressed out. Good idea to have some hiding spots for them, like plants or rocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpiasente Posted March 17, 2009 Report Share Posted March 17, 2009 If it at the surface it possibly will be looking for air. maybe an airstone could help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasing Sanity Posted March 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2009 He made it through the night! I fiddled with my spray bar so that's breaking the surface more and making more bubbles and he's a ton happier today. I went back and bought the remaining boy anyway. They didn't seem to have any girls with the same colouring so I'm not sure if there's matching girls, but my preferred LFS is going to ask their supplier today for me. I also accidentally bought a Crowntail fighter, he's got beautiful defined fins and tail and a black mask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darennkj Posted March 18, 2009 Report Share Posted March 18, 2009 That's the problem with lps...people who sells to them normally only sell the males. They tend not to sell the females just in case someone goes breeding them and spoiling their market. After all, guppies breed fast, and it's hard to get a nice pure strain unless you import them. Accidently bought a crowntail??? :betta: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasing Sanity Posted March 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2009 I'd been planning on buying a 2nd betta, a HM, but Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was just too nice to pass up. Curse my camera being on holiday! I've got a plain silver girl who is one of my first fry born that I'm planning on giving the boys, so hopefully in a few generations I'll see some tails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callatya Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 LMAO how did you end up calling him Hugh? Was he farming algae in his jar and harvesting the little native bugs that grew on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasing Sanity Posted March 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 Hugh is my most favourite TV personality! I love him! He was sulking like mad in his little tank until I put a bit of Wisteria in with him, now he's happy and playing around in his very own plant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasing Sanity Posted March 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 This is the best pic I can get of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, He changes colour depending on his mood and the lighting! I had him in direct sunlight and he was brown, but he's usually a nice iridescent blue/green with a little red when he's pissed off. That red only shows when he's flaring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 Hi there. Sounds like you got yourself a nice copper CT with red wash :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbzy81 Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 Just a stab in the dark but the guppy wouldn't have some of the endler strain? Although he does seem a touch to big to be an endler. They do tend to be smaller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terribletegs Posted March 31, 2009 Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 Some guys I have in my growout currently. The ends of the swords are clublike rather than pointy! But seeing as several genes are involved in the formation of swords, it's possibly just an issue of weird gene mixing or incomplete dominance. The clear rays between the coloured parts are normal on less-than-perfect doubleswords. Ideally these rays would be missing entirely. The main difference between a double sword and a lyretail is that double swords have straight 'swords' whereas lyretails' swords curve up and down at the top and botton. If they are straight like a V then it's a doublesword. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killimike Posted March 31, 2009 Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 Lilli, he looks blue to me, am I missing something? Thanks for the info re guppy tail types Tags. I prefer the double swords Tho I have to say, I like those guppies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted March 31, 2009 Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 He changes colour depending on his mood and the lighting! I had him in direct sunlight and he was brown, but he's usually a nice iridescent blue/green Sounds copper to me Although he does look blue in the photo :drool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killimike Posted March 31, 2009 Report Share Posted March 31, 2009 You see, I did miss something! What a shock... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasing Sanity Posted April 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 Poor High disappeared! He was in my plant pond and just vanished. Very sad :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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