Guppy-mollie hybrid?

[Николас Хьюстон]

So I had a male mollie and 4 female guppies together and fry have appeared.
The females have had no contact with my male guppies for 8 weeks+
Is a hybrid possible?

 

[Colin_T]

Hi and welcome to the forum

answer, no, they are not hybrids.

Female Livebearers like guppies, mollies, swordtails, platies can carry up to 6 sperm packets in their body from previous matings. These can be used any time by the female when conditions are good and allow a female to continue getting pregnant even tho a male is not present. They use 1 sperm packet per batch of eggs and the gestation period is about 1 month. So theoretically a female guppy can have up to 6 batches of young over a 6 month period without any males being present.