Green Guppies

[Aequora]

I waited for a few years to get my hands on what I thought were two green guppy females. They were honestly the only thing in the area I could find in realtion to green AND guppy due to my remote location up in the mountains. I searched and looked, snagged the two females and have now been sitting through and waiting for the first two sets of dropped fry to mature. Somehow, between two feemales, I ended up with under 20 maturing fry (after losing a few), and, oddly enough, two conjoined twins that freeswam and ate for almost a month before they passed away. Even stranger? ALL of my current fry are female.

It was a week after they dropped that I started to see strong black triangles at the base of their tails, followed in the next few weeks by a distinguished yellow/green shade on the bulk of the caudal fin. One-that I thought was a female-is starting to look a little odd and I'm wondering if she is really a slow maturing HE due to an obvious blue and rather long dorsal fin. I was wondering if anybody here may have experience with green guppies and have anything to share on the development and early expression of those genetics?

 

[Harlequins]

I don't know much about green guppies,but young guppies will usually resemble females until they reach maturity or later

 

[OldMan47]

Until a guppy is at least 3/4 inch long or maybe even a bit bigger, all guppies look like females. The gonopodium, tail size and intense coloring of a male all do not really start to develop until they are approaching maturity. The 20 fry means that many of your fry were lost very early since a single guppy will produce more than that in one drop. Chances are fairly good they were eaten if the females were together during the whole process.

 

[Aequora]

Those two females are notorious for giving me small drops. The smallest to date was six and the largest was twenty. Sometimes I think they're doing this just to watch me pace back and forth like a new parent!