What kind of swordtail?

[Salty&Onion]

I'm bored so I though about a simple boring question. I suppose my boy is just a regular swordtail strain. To me it seems like he's an alvarezi sword or a cross between alvaerzi and neon one.
I could be wrong, but anyway what kind of sword is Onion?

 

[PheonixKingZ]

@emeraldking will help you, lol.

 

[Salty&Onion]

@emeraldking will help you, lol.

I know, just don't wanna brag around here lol

 

[fish48]

nice looking fish
it's very unlikely to be a wild-type. it's more like a aquarium strain of X. helleri often seen in the pet shops and often go by the name of neon or pineapple swordtails

 

[emeraldking]

Well, Onion is a green swordtail for sure. Comes close to one of the wild Xiphophorus helleris there are in the wild. But X.helleri group knows a number of subspecies and together with all the subspecies of the Clemenciae group they do belong to the socalled southern swordtails. Northern swordtails ain´t X.helleri.
Dominant male green swordtails tend to show the red on the lower part of the body. But this can also happen to an aquarium strain of the X.helleri. But yours does come close phenotypically to a wild version of the green swordtails.

 

[Salty&Onion]

Well, Onion is a green swordtail for sure. Comes close to one of the wild Xiphophorus helleris there are in the wild. But X.helleri group knows a number of subspecies and together with all the subspecies of the Clemenciae group they do belong to the socalled southern swordtails. Northern swordtails ain´t X.helleri.
Dominant male green swordtails tend to show the red on the lower part of the body. But this can also happen to an aquarium strain of the X.helleri. But yours does come close phenotypically to a wild version of the green swordtails.

Wow, thank you! I was sure about this in the first place. I'm sure it's a rare find in just a regular LFS?

 

[emeraldking]

Wow, thank you! I was sure about this in the first place. I'm sure it's a rare find in just a regular LFS?

I guess that depends where you live to consider it rare...

 

[JuiceBox52]

Its beautiful

 

[Retired Viking]

Very nice looking fish, in fact you have a nice looking family of fish and a good mix of plants for them.

 

[Salty&Onion]

Very nice looking fish, in fact you have a nice looking family of fish and a good mix of plants for them.

Thank you! But I do have molly issues since yesterday, one of my females is shimmying, but I think its because of the cold water and I don't have a heater yet

 

[Salty&Onion]

I guess that depends where you live to consider it rare...

Bristol, UK. Shop is Pets At Home and they usually don't have that kind of fish like Onion is phenotypically close to wild bersion of swords so I think I would call him a rare one