Bindel2303

I originally posted this in a different thread and it was suggested to me to re-post it in a new thread. It has also been said that this question may have been answered in a different thread, which if it has I'm sorry. If you can show me that thread I will gladly read it. I myself could not find it. My original post was as follows.

I have a question that I have asked several fish keepers and I have gotten a million different answers, none of them very concrete. My question is about guppy's and endlers. Now I have been raising and breeding feeder guppy's for about a year now. I go to my LFS and get the ones with the best color, or that are pregnant. Now I have looked at all the websites I can find that talk about and have pictures of endlers and every single guppy I have raised has coloration patterns that are more consistent with endlers. Also they are always consistently smaller than those of fancy guppy's.

Some people have told me its because they are wild guppy's and that’s just how they look. If that’s so can someone explain to me the large difference between wild and fancy guppys in both size and color patterns? Others have never even heard of endlers when I mention them. Can any one tell me, are these fish either A) Endlers B) endler/guppy hybrids C) wild guppies (and what makes them different) or D) something else? Any one who could help me I would be very appreciative.

Here are some pictures of my past fish

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sirdarksol

The difference between fancy guppies and wild guppies is primarily in color and fin size/shape.
They don't quite look like Endler's so I'd say guppies, but I'm also not an expert in the matter. Definitely closer to the wild strain than the fancy strain.

Lucy

They have the same coloration as my Lyre tail guppies, but the fin shape is different.
There was another thread about guppies with that coloration but different tail type than lyre tail and I think they were ID's as guppy hybrids.

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Bindel2303

Beautiful fish, how big are they?

Jonah

If as you suggested you are buying them from breeder ponds then they will be wild guppys, the colouring also is not quite right for Endlers.

Endlers Males are usually only about 1"each with wild Guppys being very slightly larger.

However they are fine looking fish

Bindel2303

thank you