Not crazy about them ?

[MaloK]

For me it's really Puffers, they look like ugly little aquatic t*rds.

When I see one, I can't help myself but envisioning it spinning around in a toilet.

 

[gwand]

I don't think that's it. If you could see the big mollies with scarlet fins I saw in Belize, or sky blue bodied smaller mollies, with bright orange fins as are found in Mexico, I don't think an over-all orange fish is eye candy. That's a handsome sailfin, but the wilds can be just as eye catching.

I think the hobby took a direction with livebearers back in the 1940s, and the results became the line of least resistance for the trade. The mainstream push is for fewer species and easy mass production. We see it with glofish too, where the most easily produced tetras and danios get the treatment.

Big sailfins aren't the easiest to breed. They aren't automatic like the smaller sphenops based types. Poecilia velifera is largely brackish, P latipinna can be brackish or hardwater fresh, and P petenensis are hard freshwater. All are sailfins, and all have been used to varying degrees to create the hobby sailfins. P latipinna is found in the US, and was the basic fish linebreeders played with when Florida was a major source, but inter-species mutts abound now.

Gottcha. I thought you were going to tell me if I like line bred sailfin Mollys you have a velvet painting of Elvis you want to sell me.

 

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Gottcha. I thought you were going to tell me if I like line bred sailfin Mollys you have a velvet painting of Elvis you want to sell me.

Gary’s selling his velvet Elvis painting ? I have first dibs on that .

 

[GaryE]

My velvet Elvis painting is of him bull fighting in a Rubenesque 68 Comeback body suit. No one sells a painting like that.

 

[Sparx]

For me it's really Puffers, they look like ugly little aquatic t*rds.

When I see one, I can't help myself but envisioning it spinning around in a toilet.

 

[Back in the fold]

My velvet Elvis painting is of him bull fighting in a Rubenesque 68 Comeback body suit. No one sells a painting like that.

It sounds like you know what you have . I wouldn’t sell either .

 

[emeraldking]

I can only say that I'm glad that we all have our own preferences in fish choice. This makes the hobby more alive. How boring would it be if we all have the same preference? Then there will be hardly something new to discuss.

 

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I can only say that I'm glad that we all have our own preferences in fish choice. This makes the hobby more alive. How boring would it be if we all have the same preference? Then there will be hardly something new to discuss.

True dat and maybe also when you hear others talking about their favorites that you’re not too excited about you might get curious and acquire some .

 

[Uberhoust]

Barbs are just boring to me. Never cared for them. Though never raised them either so who knows maybe they have some hidden appeal I will never experience.

 

[sharkweek178]

Livebearers. Don't get me wrong. They're beautiful and fun to watch. I just don't want the hassle of dealing with all the fry. And a single sex tank doesn't appeal to me either. Either all females who aren't as brightly colored or all males who will have to live out their lives in sexual frustration. Seems kind of mean.

 

[emeraldking]

Livebearers. Don't get me wrong. They're beautiful and fun to watch. I just don't want the hassle of dealing with all the fry. And a single sex tank doesn't appeal to me either. Either all females who aren't as brightly colored or all males who will have to live out their lives in sexual frustration. Seems kind of mean.

This remark is based on the common livebearers that are commercially available. For there are also a serious number of livebearers that have a small batch of fry and a number of them are even hard to breed.

 

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@emeraldking I like your new avatar .

 

[sharkweek178]

This remark is based on the common livebearers that are commercially available. For there are also a serious number of livebearers that have a small batch of fry and a number of them are even hard to breed.

It's just as well. My tap water is pretty soft anyways.

 

[emeraldking]

@emeraldking I like your new avatar .

Thank you. That one was taken in Venezuela. I was younger overthere and slimmer...

It's just as well. My tap water is pretty soft anyways.

Well to be honest, there are also livebearer species which are better off in softer water. The hard water rule for livebearers is a generalization and based on the commercially available common livebearers.

 

[MattW]

If I had to keep livebearers I would choose the Zoogoneticus genus over everything else. I find them the most fascinating livebearers. I saw a video the other day from a place in the UK helping to breed Zoogoneticus tequila, in an attempt to eventually use those fish in a release back into its natural home in Mexico. Depending on the state of its habitat