What Is This Tropical Fish!

[balraj_bangar]

I watcher him grow up and it has alway got my attention, i do not know what he
is but lovely regardless. i have platies, swordtail, guppies, mollies and
endlers in my tank - which mix is this guys!! ​

 

[SchottayB]

Platy lol? os is it a Molly?

 

[Bazaman]

i would say either a platy or molly or a mix that is the best i could do.

 

[coldcazzie]

Isn't it molly-guppy or platy-swordtail that can interbreed?

I'll move your post to the common livebearers section - someone there should be able to help

 

[5teady_2012]

Swordtail x platy

 

[Ny82]

That looks like a platy. I had one just like that, white front half, red back half. Then it developed black markings.
Platies can have different colours and markings.

 

[StandbySetting]

Looks like a female swordtail to me.

 

[FishBlast]

The swordtails usually have a sharper beak but not as sharp as a platy. That looks more like a molly (dalmatian molly) since it has rounder mouth.

^ Molly round mouth.
Swordtails with the dalmatian pattern usually are transparent, not that white.
And I have yet to see a platy that has that opaque white either.

EDIT: On google images there seems to be a pretty close dalmatian platy but not sure if it is that opaque or it's the lighting.

 

[random919]

it looks like a platy or possibly a molly X platy but it is more likely to be just a platy

 

[OldMan47]

Random919, there is no such thing as a molly platy cross so that narrows it down a bit.

 

[mcqc4]

Looks like a dalmatian molly in the front, guppy in the tail.

 

[balraj_bangar]

i think its a guppy molly. i got another batch of fry. i have been watching them grow and one is similar to this grown up. it has a pale blue tail and white body. i shall add a picture of this once its bigger. i do see where your all coming from with regarding to it being a platy but by platies are alll a lovely deep red and not half white/dalmatian.

 

[FishBlast]

i think its a guppy molly. i got another batch of fry. i have been watching them grow and one is similar to this grown up. it has a pale blue tail and white body. i shall add a picture of this once its bigger. i do see where your all coming from with regarding to it being a platy but by platies are alll a lovely deep red and not half white/dalmatian.

Not all platies are red, some are blue, green, yellow, transparent... not sure if that on google images really is a platy though, as most of their fish on the webpage are written wrong, so it could be a molly too.

A guppy-dalmatian molly hybrid though, it could be, mostly due to the red tail.

 

[lefty07603]

I think its a guppy molly, but theose hybrids tend to be weak and die

 

[FishBlast]

I think its a guppy molly, but theose hybrids tend to be weak and die

And I've heard they are males only. That one looks like a female.
EDIT: no, wait, it is a male, didn't see right. But muppies got a different shape though.