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[chocky]

I have 3 different types of Guppies going at the moment.

i was planning to keep all the 3 types of females and all the males in 2 big separate tanks, and only have a trio (1m & 2F) of the ones i want to breed in separate smaller tanks.

my concerns were;

In the big tanks ; females can't like.. do some weird shit and impregnate each other right?

and as long as i separate the babies early (like 1 month old) i shouldn't have any issues of accidently cross breeding?

thanks again in advance!

[dicky7]

females will breed but not with other females  but they do hold fertilised eggs for a long time

 

Any colony that which you wish to keep  Pure you must not let them mix

 

Im sure more knowledgeable ppl will answer more

[bigjohnnofish]

dicky got it pretty spot on.... to keep a strain of guppy as "Pure" as possible simply dont mix them.... but as guppies are always developing genetically different traits your so called pure species will not be the same in a few years unless you selectively breed to keep certain traits... you always seem to get a throwback somewhere along the line... and one that is just a little bit different to the parents and it passes this on and so forth.... if we both had a pair of visually identical guppy pairs and bred them together and never let anything mix with them in 5 years time we would both have different looking guppies....

[chocky]

ah okay no problems then. i guess it would just be easier to keep them separate then.

actually the purple moscows i got from a pcs auction a few months back have had the odd one or two different colour. haha its quite fun to see what variations come out

[sandgroper]

Best not to mix, it just creates a headache down the track. If you can tell the females apart (some have coloured tails) you could put the females in one tank and all the males in a different tank. Then you could keep any fry that are born and grow them up to see whats what, as no crosses can happen because they were fertilized before hand, if ya get my drift.

[bigjohnnofish]

actually the purple moscows i got from a pcs auction a few months back have had the odd one or two different colour. haha its quite fun to see what variations come out

 

when you someone selling blue moscows they have prob just pulled out some of the bluer ones that purple moscows throw....they are originally a hawaiian purple moscow.... but they will change unless you select the best coloured ones to continue breeding with.... 

[chocky]

Best not to mix, it just creates a headache down the track. If you can tell the females apart (some have coloured tails) you could put the females in one tank and all the males in a different tank. Then you could keep any fry that are born and grow them up to see whats what, as no crosses can happen because they were fertilized before hand, if ya get my drift.

yeah that was the plan i was proposing keeping all females and males separately but mixing the different types.

but since being informed that some females may develop male features when no males are around didn't want to risk that happening.

Heres what i have set up at the moment



(haven't cleaned or emptied one of the bigger tank yet)