platy ben

I just got back from the LFS and i bought a pair of endlers livebearers!!

Ive just realeased them into my guppy tank, im so happy

Butterfly

You know they will interbreed right?
carol

Amanda

I want a pair of those, they're so beautiful! But I can never find them anywhere.

jgon_

I just picked up Endler's last week. So tiny!!!!! Really interesting fish and are not shy at all swimming against fish many times their size.

platy ben

Yup, im going to split them apart from the normal guppys asap

Shaina

Glad to hear they will have their own home soon

Congrats on your new fish!

agabr123

congrats!

you know it's mandatory that you post pics, right?

platy ben

I guess
Oh dear, the female looks like she has the early stages of ICH, so i moved her into empty quaruntine and im treating her now

Il get pics of the male

Amanda

Not the dreaded ich!
Good luck with that!

Jonah

you get them to breed true Ben and i will be your 1st customer! Where in Uk are you.

I have a 10gal/12us sat there cycling just waiting for the 1st breeding pair of endlers I can get my hands on.

I bought a couple of guppy/endler hybids but its just not the same.

platy ben

Heres some pics

In the last pic he is swimming next to a young female guppy, just so you get an idea of how big the little fella is

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Butterfly

If they were in the tank with guppys at the LFS the females are probably already pregnant. Endlers are truly beautiful little fish in the guppy family but very distinctively different in looks. They are also going extinct in the wild (their habitat is being destroyed) therefore the encourage ment to keep them pure. But LFS will throw them together anyway
carol

katetnies

i have a question... what is the difference between the ender and a lyretail guppy? is it just the shape? are endlers smaller?

Butterfly

Endlers are much brighter colored, almost flourescent, much smaller than guppys. They can have the lyretail characteristics but they still look different. Frequently the way the lyretail looks is a clue that they are an Endler/guppy mix. The endler tail is very short.
Here's some excellent information on Endlers Livebearers
http://members.cox.net/newcomb1/endlers.html
Here's another excellent source of information
http://www.endlersr.us/
Carol

platy ben

Mine came out of an all endler tank

Im in Suffolk near Bury st edmunds joe

Hopefully they will breed for me

Shaina

Great question, I was wondering the same, lol.

Thanks for the education, Carol

Jonah

Oh no I was up in Great Yarmouth today I will have to convince the girls that they want to make another shopping trip soon

platy ben

Il update you when i get some more fry

Butterfly

Thats great!

No problem there they breed like.... well guppies, and rabbits and... umm you get the idea

Welcome Shaina they are the sweetest little fish. The males are just tiny little bundles of energy.
Jonah has already nicknamed me the enabler because I have made him crave adding Endlers to his collection
carol

platy ben

Jonah

So much so that I have a 10gal sat there just cycling away (at the nitrite phase) waiting for them lol

Butterfly

LOL Did you look at the beautiful pics in the first link? There's even a map showing their natural habitat. I understand the two places they can be found is now right next to a dump.
carol

Jonah

I did yes, thank you for that i have bookmarked it for when I fianlly get mine as there is a lot of info about endlers care in there!

Who ever heard of a brackish guppy!

katetnies

thanx for the great sites.