Female Endlers

Neptune54

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I'm not thinking of getting any female endlers at the moment, but my LFS is carrying some and I might be interested later on. They don't have any male endlers, only regular guppies, and I was wondering if there was a way to breed them with selected regular guppies while keeping the endler line pure? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! :good:
 
No, there's no way you can interbreed species and keep them pure at the same time.

Of course, the females would still be Endlers, and if you bred them with a pure Endler male, the fry would be pure Endlers too, but you'd have to wait for the females to be 'empty' of any sperm from the guppies that they were storing.

Having said that, all Endlers now in the trade are already Endler/guppy hybrids.

If you want to breed pure Endlers, you'll have to find a specialist breeder :good:
 
As fluttermoth has said, the typical endler available in the trade is typically an endler/guppy cross, not a true endler. Unless you can get collection data on your female endler or know something else about it, chances are good that you are dealing with a cross. In that case it will not matter much what you do with her.
As a breeder of true endlers I am often dismayed by the weird crosses, pretty as they may be, that are misidentified as endlers in a shop. There is nothing that anyone can do to prevent a shop identifying any old fish in a manner that they choose so I often just give up. If you are not getting your endlers from a reputable registered breeder, you probably are buying crosses. On average they are prettier to most people than the real thing so they are what the shops carry.
 

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