Selling Guppy Fry For Breeding

Heya, just a question on guppy fry!

I know guppies are in a huge abundance, and I know unless you have a rare strain then it's almost impossible to make a profit, but I just have this one question.

My red girl has been giving birth a lot recently and I'm raising all her fry in a separate tank (3 generations now) Every single one of her fry are identical. All pure red (common) guppies.

I know because they aren't special they can't go for much more than 50p, but are they of any value for breeding? Because it's such a pure red strain, surely the fry would be perfect for creating colours (like purple, pink, patterned red etc)

What I'm trying to ask, is that soon they will be big enough to start selling, can I market them as breeding guppies, and for how much (and where)?

I can attach pics if that helps!

Thanks for your help in advance!!!

 

I assume you probably could. Guppies seem pretty willing to breed with other guppies almost immediately. I bred a blue Moscow with a half black pastel and sold some of the first generations as breeding pairs and all. But I did actually make sure they were successful pairs with my own first before selling.

 

I assume you probably could. Guppies seem pretty willing to breed with other guppies almost immediately. I bred a blue Moscow with a half black pastel and sold some of the first generations as breeding pairs and all. But I did actually make sure they were successful pairs with my own first before selling.

Thanks! I guess I can try and see how much similar guppies are going for, or just wing it and see how many sell.

I've never cross-bred guppies before, would they work in a similar way to a colour palette (obviously will odd fry, deformities and a variety of mixed colours and patterns) but if I need with a blue guppy, would I get fry approximately purple coloured?

 

Thanks! I guess I can try and see how much similar guppies are going for, or just wing it and see how many sell.

I've never cross-bred guppies before, would they work in a similar way to a colour palette (obviously will odd fry, deformities and a variety of mixed colours and patterns) but if I need with a blue guppy, would I get fry approximately purple coloured?

No it doesn't work that way. It's about dominant and recessive genes.

No it doesn't work that way. It's about dominant and recessive genes.

If you have a blue female, she might only give birth to a couple blue fry, or zero, or maybe 90-100% of them might be blue if bred to a male with a recessiove gene for body color.

Sorry, meant to edit my last post, not speed post your thread lol.

 

No it doesn't work that way. It's about dominant and recessive genes.


If you have a blue female, she might only give birth to a couple blue fry, or zero, or maybe 90-100% of them might be blue if bred to a male with a recessiove gene for body color.

Sorry, meant to edit my last post, not speed post your thread lol.

I figured as much... thanks anyway though! I'll just try and sell them off so other people can figure out what to breed them with

 

If you can honestly tell them most of the fry look like the parents somebody may want them. It generally takes at least a few years to get a strain breeding extremely true. Breeders work on high quality strains for a decade or more sometimes.

 

If you can honestly tell them most of the fry look like the parents somebody may want them. It generally takes at least a few years to get a strain breeding extremely true. Breeders work on high quality strains for a decade or more sometimes.

Nice! That's what I was hoping for!! I'm 90% sure my strain breeds identical guppies!!! I've attached a pic of the mum, gen 1 and gen 2 fry for you (gen 3 are too small right now)




What do you think? Worth anything??

 

They are nice guppies but probably not unique enough to command a price. Perhaps it is different where you live but much fancier strains are too easy to find where I live, for a low price.

 

Do you have any pics of the male? From what I've seem the full red is a bit more common than strains like blue Moscow. But it also depends on the quality. If your males are completely red with no white on their bellies those seem to be more popular.

But this is just what it seems to me from things I've been reading while trying to decide on a strain of guppy to get a start of.

 

They are nice guppies but probably not unique enough to command a price. Perhaps it is different where you live but much fancier strains are too easy to find where I live, for a low price.

There are almost no fancy strains near me, not in lfs anyway...

Do you have any pics of the male? From what I've seem the full red is a bit more common than strains like blue Moscow. But it also depends on the quality. If your males are completely red with no white on their bellies those seem to be more popular.

But this is just what it seems to me from things I've been reading while trying to decide on a strain of guppy to get a start of.

I don't know who the male is, she came already pregnant, but I presume it was one of her siblings, so in all likelihood a guppy of the same colour as her.

I've never done guppy breeding before, so please excuse me if I'm a complete noob (I wasn't expecting to have breeding guppies either, but when I realised I somehow had a pure bloodline I didn't know if there was any worth in it or not)

Guppies are reasonably popular here it seems (compared to other fish), but as pets rather than for breeding.