Some blond hybrid endlers of mine...
Blond endler guppies...
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Beautiful!
@emeraldking I can't get over the stunningly vivid red of the swordtail you entered in FOTM! Plus the delicate frills on the fins. I really, really want to learn more about those, and do you know whether they're ever available in the UK? I've never had a swordtail, but I'm wowed by that one!
@emeraldking I can't get over the stunningly vivid red of the swordtail you entered in FOTM! Plus the delicate frills on the fins. I really, really want to learn more about those, and do you know whether they're ever available in the UK? I've never had a swordtail, but I'm wowed by that one!
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They are beautiful!
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Thank you. But this strain itself does already exist for many years now. Even I have them for so many years. From time to time I do add a grey bodied one to keep the pattern on those blondes clear.
Well, thank you,. These kind of swordtails are called cauliflower swordtails. Just because of the dorsal and caudal fin shape. There are two types of them. One where males have a pointy swordtail and one where males have a saber shaped sword like these. Sometimes these cauliflower swords are called rosetail swordtails. Also because of both dorsal as caudal fins.
But nowadays, cauliflower swordtails are also available in other colors morphs. I'm not sure whether these swordtails are available within the UK, to be honest. These cauliflower are also more firm build than an average commercial swordtail strain. I also have to say that they cost more than a commercial swordtail strain.
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Thank you
I like the saber tail a lot! Do you have any photos of the females, or other varieties you have, by any chance?
I don't want to change the topic of this thread, it's just can't ask questions about them in the FOTM contest thread, not sure where else to ask!
I can easily see why they would cost more - a lot more! There has clearly been a lot of work involved in developing these shapes, fin differences and incredibly deep red! They'd be beyond my budget to buy or import I'm sure. But I think it's the really intense red I'm most drawn to, even though blues and purples usually the colours in fish I'm most drawn to.
Do you know of any molly varieties or other fish, that have this intense deep red?
Oh, or a really intense blue!
I'm not a big fan of platies though.
Mollies and guppies/Endlers are my favourite common livebearers. But used to have some blue platies that I did really love the colour on them, and would likely get them again, but if there was a blue molly, or ones with a lot of blue, I'd be super happy!
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Does this all answer your questions?
Gah, the female swordtail is just as pretty as the male! Whatever they cost, they'd be worth every penny! Did you create this strain?
I'm not so crazy about the molly though... it's more goldfish coloured than the intense red on the swordtail. But I love the blue sailfin! I'll have to look for some of those... my old hybrid black and silver mollies had some blue speckling among their silver, and were a sailfin hybrid. So I wonder whether they were a plain black molly, cross dalmation, crossed with a blue sailfin? I guess I'll never know, but I need to find some photos/videos/in person see these blue sailfins now, thank you!
I'm not so crazy about the molly though... it's more goldfish coloured than the intense red on the swordtail. But I love the blue sailfin! I'll have to look for some of those... my old hybrid black and silver mollies had some blue speckling among their silver, and were a sailfin hybrid. So I wonder whether they were a plain black molly, cross dalmation, crossed with a blue sailfin? I guess I'll never know, but I need to find some photos/videos/in person see these blue sailfins now, thank you!
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Yes, they are worth their money. But you have to be willing to pay more for such fish.
No, I didn't. We have to thank the Japanese for these creations...
Actually, the blue in a molly isn't a breeding form trait. It's actually a wild form trait. A lot of wild molly species do carry the blue on them (visible or not). But it won't cover the whole body. Mostly a second color is dominating over the blue. This trait has been linebred to come to the electric blue molly strain.
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