Hybridizing Livebearers Take 1

[Paradise3]

Sorry, but those are trade names for body shapes, they are not species names (as pointed out above). Either give a scientific name or a common name which is used exclusivity for one species (like "goldfish", for example). If the origin of these fish was a generic LFS "molly" (regardless if they were then bred by someone), they are most likely hybrids and you don't actually know what they are.

Poecilia Sphenops and Poecilia Latipinna.
Any better? If you had said you wanted scientific names before I could have given them straight away.

 

[KittyKat]

Poecilia Sphenops and Poecilia Latipinna.
Any better? If you had said you wanted scientific names before I could have given them straight away.

…and that brings us back to the point made earlier, how do you know? It is safe to assume that all farmed mollies are hybrids, especially so if they are not wild-type colours as mollies were hybridised for colour many years ago. The chances of your fish being those species are less than one in a million.

 

[hanny93]

Poecilia Sphenops and Poecilia Latipinna.
Any better? If you had said you wanted scientific names before I could have given them straight away.

nice to know you can google search. i googled gold dust sailfin molly and thats the first thing that comes up.

we asked you quite a few times for scientific names, and as kittykat has said, unless you can trace back your specific mollies breeding, it is 99% probable that it is a hybrid.

seriously why are you still pursuing this when its obvious that noone thinks it is a good idea..

 

[StandbySetting]

What's the point in breeding the two together? Breeding should be done to continue the breed and not to see which strange impotent variants can be created, it all seems a bit pointless.

 

[fish48]

it's a myth about guppies are weak, short lived and very prone to a lot of disease

Simply not true.

it is Simply not true that all lfs guppies are weak, short lived and very prone to a lot of disease

 

[hanny93]

it is Simply not true that all lfs guppies are weak, short lived and very prone to a lot of disease

how do you know this? have you owned every single guppy in the world that was bought from an lfs for the whole of its lifetime? no.

 

[StandbySetting]

That's the point he's putting forward, that all guppies are not weak etc.

 

[hanny93]

i know and what im trying to say is how can he say that when he doesnt know the state of every single one bought from an lfs, theres more accounts of people complaining of sickly guppies from lfs.

 

[fish48]

it is Simply not true that all lfs guppies are weak, short lived and very prone to a lot of disease

how do you know this? have you owned every single guppy in the world that was bought from an lfs for the whole of its lifetime? no.

no but i have kept and breed more lfs guppys / livebearers than you will ever keep
and spent more time studying them then you have

 

[micko]

it's a myth about guppies are weak, short lived and very prone to a lot of disease

Simply not true.

it is Simply not true that all lfs guppies are weak, short lived and very prone to a lot of disease

Exactly, and if you read what YOU wrote in the first place you will see why I said "simply not true". Now you saying that they're not all weak.

 

[micko]

no but i have kept and breed more lfs guppys / livebearers than you will ever keep
and spent more time studying them then you have

How on earth do you know this?
Are you a fountain of all knowledge? Oh let me get on my knees in front of you. I'm not worthy.

Your being really foolish

 

[Ludwig Venter]

As interesting as your discussion here may be guys..... you are talking crossed purposes and going nowhere..... This topic is closed.......