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Kerri Gronow

Kerri Gronow

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Hey, of course I am very interested in livebearers, and I was looking at pictures on the internet and came across these beautiful colourful guppies! I am really curious, are these a certain type of guppy or just lucky breeding?! Also I live in Northern Ireland so is there any where I could possibly buy them?! Thanks in advance! :good:
 

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Sorry that dose not look like a specific strain I've seen before, so probably a "mixed bag".

If you want specific lines of guppies there are many breeders but not sure about how many will post to NI Should not me much of a problem though.
 
Ahhhh...I see, I just thought they are very pretty, there is quite a few of them on google even when you only type in "guppies"! Here is another picture. But if I can find some it would be fab becaue I would love to breed them!! :hyper:
 

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Those two look dyed to me :(
 
mmm...I dont know, they might be! But I searched some endlers and they are really pretty and some of their colours are just amazing I might just do some research on them!!! :hyper:
 
I didn't mean the Endlers; they're not :) I meant the two guppies in post #4 with the pink, green and orange spots on!
 
Balloons&killies said:
fluttermoth said:
I didn't mean the Endlers; they're not :) I meant the two guppies in post #4 with the pink, green and orange spots on!
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Fluttermouth- they arent dyed some guppies are bred to have spots and just bright blue bodies, i had a double sword that looked like that,
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Fair enough! I'm happy to be corrected; I've just never seen guppies with colours like that before and my mum breeds blue guppies :)
 
O...I meant the guppies! I just went on to say that the endlers are lovely and I might do some research on them!! :)
 
In a competition setting, those guppies would be classed as AOC guppies, meaning Any Other Color, Kerri. I rather like the look of the ones you have found. I am not a specialist guppy breeder so my own tastes do not follow show rules. Instead, I simply know what I like and am content to find something that I like to take home. I own wild type endlers, as others have suggested to you, but true endlers do not look like the pictures you have been shown. Those fish are guppy/endler hybrids, something that I consider a negative thing for a real endler breeder to have. Endlers are hard enough to keep pure without all the folks who insist on calling every conceivable cross an endler.
These are true endlers but may not be readily available to a typical fish keeper who gets their fish from a shop.
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Ahhhhh...ok... I love the look of those endler!! more colourful than the other one! :hyper: So they are difficult to find then?! I would really like fish (livebearer) with those lovely colours... like the endler or the beautiful guppy!! Is there any places on the computer you can order them?! Tank you everyone for your replies! :good:
 
Kerri Gronow said:
Ahhhhh...ok... I love the look of those endler!! more colourful than the other one! :hyper: So they are difficult to find then?! I would really like fish (livebearer) with those lovely colours... like the endler or the beautiful guppy!! Is there any places on the computer you can order them?! Tank you everyone for your replies! :good:
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Just a hint here...

Those oldfishman showed are known as Black Bar Endlers...

Theres loads of people from The UK Selling them on Ebay and they will post them next day recorded delivery, most will post to Northern Ireland too...


I'm in the Uk And theres a guy down the road from me selling them for £2.50 a pair (FRY)(but He does not post yet)
 
Kerri Gronow said:
Ok... thank you! I will have a look on some websites!! :good:
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Hi. I keep endlers in a species only tank. I agree the males do have beautiful colours and patterns, but I would add, the females are very drab in colour. They breed like rabbits, and dont seem to eat their fry. So, if you dont want a population explosion I would suggest you have only males! They are quite difficult to find in pet stores, but a certain large nationwide chain you find in garden centres sometimes have males (dont know if I am allowed to mention the company's name) Hope this helps.
 
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