Guppy Challenge Entry 2: MadHatter

Secondly: Pair 2

Male 1:A2

Description: Feeder Guppy
What you like about it: Nice coloring on fins and love the black on the body
Where it came from: LPS
What traits would you like to breed forward: Change red to blue and improve yellow and black on body, also increase fin size

Female 1:B2

Description: Feeder guppy
What you like about it: Nice bright colors with a nice border
Where it came from: LPS
What traits would you like to breed forward: Coloring

Goal: change red coloring on males tail and top dorsal to blue, improve the yellow and up the coloring. would like to breed the body color more black as well. and increase fin size

 

having doubts about this actually now that im thinking about it.

the blue and the yellow isnt really going to work as they are both killing eachother, im thinking its going to cause the fish to not look nice as the colors arnt bringing out eachother.

and im thinking that the black patterns are just going to kill it even more, am i wrong?

are the black spots rather going to bring the colors out?

 

Blue leopard and blue mosaic guppy look good to me. I have a blue leopard female and she looks great.

 

i mean with the tail color on a male. ill do it anyways and see what comes out

 

Would look good if you can get it close to the females tail with the inner green and blue rim.

 

That would be the positive thing to do. To speculate now- it is going to drive you mad! Get a big batch of fry and move forward from there. You are likely going to get a male close to what you are hoping for. Going to post a pic of all the males I am selling- a lot of them are the offspring of a mosaic female with a Tequila Sunrise male, and then red half black into the mix. That will give you an good idea of what you may get. Looking forward to your results.

 

think its personal preff, haha. i just think i personally wouldnt like the way the colors look. haha. but ill see what happens as this comp is technically just for fun.

 

Yes, it is fun to grow out fry - one never knows what may pop out.....almost like opening a lucky packet!

 

actually, im liking it. this is sorta what im going for just more color.

 

I have some very young halfback males with blue fins that should help you get there. They still very young though, 2 months now.

 

need to have a talk about them in the future.

 

Beautiful fish. I believe you can get that with what you are using. Red is a difficult color to get rid of- keep that in mind in future when selecting from the offspring.

 

Maybe you should make a plan to get those blue males from me when back from leave?

 

for sure. do you ship @Vis ?
@lennard , not really a problem, dont mind putting in effort. like i said on one of my other Threads, i do this full time. and probably will for another year or 2. so i put in all the time i have and give it to my fish.

 

Don't really ship but maybe we can meet at Harties or something.

 

im at Harties probably 2 - 3 times a month. ill let you know when im back. thanks @Vis

 

So i got back from vacation today. MASSIVE water changes done, still need to tackle the big 400L tank!

Anyways, came back to my female dead. She didnt look lekker when we left, was hoping she might make it but unfortunately she didnt! Male still going strong!

@Vis , think i need to grab a male or 2 from you, Now that i dont have anymore! Or ill hit the shops soon!

 

Hi

Sad to hear, only got two males left though. You can check my entry thread to see pics of them.

I had to let go of the rest to make space for my challenge fry.

 

@Reedfish , please remove this entry as it will no longer continue.

getting a bit hectic around here anyways, so its probably better if i just stick with the one pair. for now! untill the next fish challenge haha.