Molly-gupy

[Joe_eyre]

Has anyone got a picture of a Molly Guppy hybrid? or even got one? are they for sale anywhere? As you can see i am very interested in this

 

[Annastasia]

Molly/Guppy hyrbids are VERY rare. You won't see them for sale anywhere, really. It's not common for them to breed at all, even for specialist breeders. If you search on this forum, you'll find lots of topics about this combo, some are even further down the page in the Hybrid section.

 

[GuppyDude]

gee i hope they arnt being sold, that'd be irresponsible. iv seen pics of them, not bad looking fish, but nothing particularly special. ill find you a picture if i can, but as anna said, its extreamly uncommon.

 

[OohFeeshy]

I think the picture I saw was a molly body with a guppy patterned molly tail.

 

[Dom~]

I am not sure if it is all that difficult to accomplish a guppy x molly hybrid. When I was faily new to fish I actually had my fancy guppy get my silver molly pregnant The result was my silver molly giving birth to 70some-odd very blotchy fish some having grey patches on white, all white, and white patches on grey. From what I remember that was an unusualy large number of fish for my molly to have to at one time. Maybe due to the smally fry size of the guppy? Anyway, I removed them from the 10 gallon I was keeping them in and put them in a margarine container in hope of preventing the mother from eating them. After a few days they died. If you are really interested in creating this hybrid I'd suggest breeding a male guppy with a female molly. The only reason for this is that i obersved that my male guppy (aka "the horny fish") would try to mate with practically any fish in my tank, even other males and am not too sure if a molly would do the same. Personally, I think my female molly was avoiding him as best she could and that the cross wouldn't happen in the wild.

 

[dwarfgourami]

Do you know for sure that your guppy was the father, Dom- i.e. had the molly been reared by you and never been near a molly male? Just thought I'd ask, it's so difficult to know with livebearers.

 

[Dom~]

Do you know for sure that your guppy was the father, Dom- i.e. had the molly been reared by you and never been near a molly male? Just thought I'd ask, it's so difficult to know with livebearers.

Yes, as far as i know. She was bought from a female only tank and didn't have any fry until several months in my 10 gallon tank. There was no other livebearing fish in the tank at the time other than a few guppies therefore I doubt that they could have been from a black/marbled male molly/platty/etc. which could result in the colour pattern of the fry she birthed.