How to breed a kinda gay fish?

[FishHobby99]

beautiful guppies! Who’s to say, they may breed yet.

 

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I am returning Menma to his people. Look how excited they are to have their friend back (my face being there had absolutely NOTHING to do with it. Nuh uh. They are totally excited about Menma. Not the idea of food.)

where did you get all these guppies the 2 big males are cool

 

[biofish]

where did you get all these guppies the 2 big males are cool

My sisters actually bought them for me on eBay LMAOOO

They came in pairs of 1 male and 1 female and I am very excited for the ladies babies.

 

[biofish]

LHave some better pictures LOL This is Jay:

This is lace:

This is the lady that came with Lace, her name is Lilac

And then the lady that came with Jay, named Doe. She’s a bit plain but she’s got good genetics to spread

 

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LHave some better pictures LOL This is Jay:View attachment 150989
This is lace:

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This is the lady that came with Lace, her name is Lilac View attachment 150991

And then the lady that came with Jay, named Doe. She’s a bit plain but she’s got good genetics to spread
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how much?
very cool guppies

 

[FishHobby99]

wow! My 5 make guppies are also from eBay. I got all boys. I have no interest in breeding anything, not even myself

They were $30 as I recall. $15 for the boys & $15 for shipping.
came a tiny styrofoam cooler, in a box. They were in bags inside the cooler. Shipping 1-2 days. Think guy was in NY state. Very nice man.

 

[biofish]

Ooo mine were a bit more pricy. I think the jay pair was 35$ and the lace pair was 45$

Got them at an eBay shop called Dylan Guppy USA

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www.ebay.com

 

[Sgooosh]

Ooo mine were a bit more pricy. I think the jay pair was 35$ and the lace pair was 45$

Got them at an eBay shop called Dylan Guppy USA

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www.ebay.com

the albios and 24k look cool

 

[FishHobby99]

Bio, yours really are prettier, but please don’t tell my boys I said that!

 

[Colin_T]

This is lace:

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Does @emeraldking know what variety of guppy this is?
I like it

 

[emeraldking]

So I have this male guppy, Menma, and im about 92% sure he’s gay. He flares his fins and goes the little seizure mate dance thing to his fellow guppy men in the male tank. There was one male guppy, Nards, in particular that Menma followed around like a love struck puppy; no aggression no nips or any of the bully behavior I see between my other male guppies, just the two were constantly side by side leisurely going about the tank. Unfortunately Nards passed away a few months ago, and Menma hasn’t been as energetic since.

I’ve had Menma in the female tank for a little over a week now and he is so not interested in the ladies that it’s really funny. He stays as far away from them as possible. I typically find him sulking in an empty part of the tank, away from the ladies. The older female fry in the tank he doesn’t avoid, just the adult ladies. And this isn’t the first time I’ve tried to breed him… but he’s been just as uninterested as he is now.

He’s my very first fish, so he’s probably getting up there in age. I first got fish mid way through April, and he was still young enough that he didn’t have all his colors in yet. So he’s probably just over a year old or so. And all the other fish that I got at the same time as him have started to die off, probably from older age? And it’s just. I really don’t wanna loose Menma, my first fish but I realize that’s impossible so I wanna breed him.

Which leads us back to the problem that he isn’t interested in the ladies at all the ladies have come up to him but Menma doesn’t even acknowledge them. I love him regardless but it would really be nice to have SOME offspring.

My boy is gay but I want his babies.

Any tips?

Homosexuality does occur in fish (so also in guppies) but it's rare. But it could also be a dominance thing amongst males by flaring their fins and even dancing around another male. Just trying to impress another male. But much older males "can" develop a decrease of their libido.

LHave some better pictures LOL This is Jay:View attachment 150989
This is lace:

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This is the lady that came with Lace, her name is Lilac View attachment 150991

And then the lady that came with Jay, named Doe. She’s a bit plain but she’s got good genetics to spread
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Lace is a male ribbon blue grass guppy. Lilac is not a female grass guppy. She looks more like a dragon guppy. And I do see some blue in the finnage. Usually, if you breed a blue grass guppy male to a blue female, the majority of the offspring will show red in the finnage instead of blue. With grass guppies, it's like this with the offspring→ blue male x blue female = majority will be red finnage. Red male x red female = majority will be blue finnage. Blue male x red female = Majority will be blue finnage. Red male x blue female = Majority will be red finnage. But despite of the fact that the female isn't a grass guppy, it does have a reasonable similar pattern which will give an offspring that will have a similar pattern in the finnage (but probably not as delicate as the father). And not all offspring will be ribbon guppies if you'd breed these two to eachother.
Jay however is a male blue dragon guppy. Very beautiful! Doe is hard to tell what kind of guppy she might be.

Does @emeraldking know what variety of guppy this is?
I like it

This specific male is a ribbon blue grass guppy. Although his name is Lace, it's not a lace guppy but a grass guppy.

 

[Sgooosh]

Homosexuality does occur in fish (so also in guppies) but it's rare. But it could also be a dominance thing amongst males by flaring their fins and even dancing around another male. Just trying to impress another male. But much older males "can" develop a decrease of their libido.

Lace is a male ribbon blue grass guppy. Lilac is not a female grass guppy. She looks more like a dragon guppy. And I do see some blue in the finnage. Usually, if you breed a blue grass guppy male to a blue female, the majority of the offspring will show red in the finnage instead of blue. With grass guppies, it's like this with the offspring→ blue maler x blue female = majority will be red finnage. Red male x red female = majority will be blue finnage. Blue male x red female = Majority will be blue finnage. Red male x blue female = Majority will be red finnage. But despite of the fact that the female isn't a grass guppy, it does have a reasonable similar pattern which will give an offspring that will have a similar pattern in the finnage (but probably not as delicate as the father). And not all offspring will be ribbon guppies if you'd breed these two to eachother.
Jay however is a male blue dragon guppy. Very beautiful! Doe is hard to tell what kind of guppy she might be.

This specific male is a ribbon blue grass guppy. Although his name is Lace, it's not a lace guppy but a grass guppy.

i have a guppy like Doe
she was the product of fancy red guppy x japanese blue lyretail
was a cool find finding wild-type guppies
also why is the lyretail trait not really extending out on the little males

 

[emeraldking]

also why is the lyretail trait not really extending out on the little males

In combination with the other breeder guppy you're working with, the lyretail trait can be recessive or dominant.

 

[biofish]

Menma passed away suddenly and unexpectedly this evening. I don’t know exactly how it happened. This afternoon everyone was healthy and happy and crowding the glass (I chose not to feed them today because it had been awhile since I skipped a feed day) and then come this evening one of my Cory catfish (a three stripe Cory) who I thought had been perfectly healthy had been absolutely devoured by his tank mates (eyes, fins, and half his face all gone). And Menma was laying directly next to him weakly wiggling. I think Menma ate one of the Cory’s spiked parts or got pricked by it because Menma was swimming without a worry this afternoon and he went down horridly quick.

I did an immediate water change and checked all my other babes. One other guppy, half his tail was gone, so now he’s in my hospital tank but he’s still swimming strong, albeit awkwardly, and eagerly eating. Everyone else is fine for now but I’m honestly devastated. I have no idea why they (only guppies and other Cory’s and one candy striped pleco in the tank) ate the Cory cat. I typically over feed them (not on purpose) and having a big tummy isn’t too unusual so I don’t think they were genuinely overly hungry. And I have no idea why THAT Cory catfish in particular. He was healthy as far as I was aware and I have no idea why he didn’t avoid the other fishes nipping (he’s one of the hardest fish in my tank to catch with a net). There are a couple other guppies who are much older and definitely showing their age and slowing down but they all look untouched. So I don’t know what happened; if the Cory’s health was compromised somehow or what. And I think Menma was just an unfortunate accident. An absolute heart wrenching one because Menma was my very first fish that I adopted and I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to him.

It frustrates me to no end that I won’t ever know what truly happened.