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I'm sorry about the blurry picture. Anyway, I got 6 guppies from a friend's water garden plants, and this was the only adult. The others are now maturing, and one of the females has a clear egg spot but this male seems totally uninterested in her, or any of the others. He looks a little different from the others, a little rounder. So I thought I'd ask: is he a guppy?
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Beling said:
I'm sorry about the blurry picture. Anyway, I got 6 guppies from a friend's water garden plants, and this was the only adult. The others are now maturing, and one of the females has a clear egg spot but this male seems totally uninterested in her, or any of the others. He looks a little different from the others, a little rounder. So I thought I'd ask: is he a guppy?
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Looks like a platy to me
 
Definitely not a guppy, it's a platy, and it's a definitely a girl! Look at that fan shaped anal fin, compared to the pointed gonopodium on a male. Perfect picture for telling whether it's a male or female, good job on the fish photography. :)
 
Beling said:
I'm sorry about the blurry picture. Anyway, I got 6 guppies from a friend's water garden plants, and this was the only adult. The others are now maturing, and one of the females has a clear egg spot but this male seems totally uninterested in her, or any of the others. He looks a little different from the others, a little rounder. So I thought I'd ask: is he a guppy?
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This is a juvenile wagtail platy. Despite of the V-shaped anal fin, I do think that it's an undeveloped male. In this picture the tip of the anal fin seems a bit pointy which is the start of developing a gonopodium.
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And it's a she.
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Don't think so. Just read what I've written. You may agree with me then...
 
You've got better eyesight than me :lol: You are the expert so I'll bow to your superior knowledge :)
 
I forget for a moment that young mollies and platies all look female until they mature, you have to wait for them to be older before you can tell, unlike with guppies. My bad! Have had a lot on my mind.
 
What?! A platy!? Female!? Ha ha, man have I been off!
I did think I saw a gonopodium, but mainly his -- excuse me, possibly her --- color was what made me think male. I was thinking hybrid. I hope he/she IS young, so very pretty.

And no, he may not wave a guppy flag. He has to show some pride. (Whatever a platy is. I have to go look them up now. I can't remember ANYONE around here having one.)

Thanks all!
 
Beling said:
What?! A platy!? Female!? Ha ha, man have I been off!
I did think I saw a gonopodium, but mainly his -- excuse me, possibly her --- color was what made me think male. I was thinking hybrid. I hope he/she IS young, so very pretty.

And no, he may not wave a guppy flag. He has to show some pride. (Whatever a platy is. I have to go look them up now. I can't remember ANYONE around here having one.)

Thanks all!
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No, it's not a female, I'm sorry! @Essjay and I were wrong, sorry to have confused you! @emeraldking breeds a huge variety of livebearers and is an expert in the field. He says it's a male, then it's a male! When platy and molly fry are first growing, their anal fins do look more like a females at first, and take a little while to develop into the shape adult male platys/mollies show. That's what confused Essjay and I, we weren't realising it was a young platy that was still growing and changing anal fin shape.

Platies are another species of fish within the livebearer family. Often kept with guppies and mollies, since they're in the same category of livebearing fish and need similar conditions.

So definitely a platy. Definitely a male platy.

Sorry again for the confusion!
 
Probably. Livebearers like these are hard wired for breeding. If there isn't a female of the same species, they will attempt to mate with a different female, though it doesn't usually work as their mating organs are not compatible. In the absence of females of any type, they have been known to try to mate with any other male in the same tank :blink:

There won't be any platy/guppy hybrids as the two are in different genuses (platies are Xiphophorus, guppies are Poecilia) and they are probably physically incompatible, @emeraldking can tell us if they are or not.
 
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