My first truly interesting yeild

I saw this male last night when adding a couple new members to the guppy kingdom. Judging by his size/age, I think he is a mix of my snakeskin male, and one of the sunset females I've had. He's only just colored up like this in the last couple of days. At first I thought it was a female because his dorsal is rather small.

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Photos arent totally accurate on color, as I had to use my webcam to get such a macro shot (he's still only about a 1/4"). His body is iridescent blue with a red streak and black spots, and he has one big black spot in the middle of his dorsal fin. A black pinstripe down his anterior body, and then a tail like most of my snakeskin's offspring.

I have several offspring so far that I like, but this is the first one that really looks different. my snakeskin male must have pretty strong genetics, as I have at least four other pint-size males that look just like him now.

Nice

Love the pattern in the tail.

At 1/4" very nice.

yeah... my guppies color up pretty quick. I think they are quite happy to live in a 29 gallon tank full of plants with a few gallons of water included

they are technically supposed to be food for my predator, but I figure I might as well have tasty looking food, right?

We all like our food to look good, so do the fish!

And I and no frickin fish or animal would touch whatever that thing is in your avatar.

madness wrote:And I and no frickin fish or animal would touch whatever that thing is in your avatar.

Can you imagine that on your plate staring back at you at the dinner table?

It looks like someone decapitated Ziggy.

Fyurae wrote:It looks like someone decapitated Ziggy.

It is one of the googled names for it 'ziggy fish'. Yes the beautiful blobfish.

I have a lineage like this! It's a snakeskin/magenta amalgam. Mine throw neon green, purple and blue gups, along with bits of tequila sunrise and a sort of coral rose hue. Yeah, they mutts - but the prettiest guppies I've ever seen!

Mine happened When I put a frosty pink/coral male from petsmart with what I thought was a tiger.snakeskin female - but now realize must have been a magenta. The results are staggeringly beautiful, these guppies look like neons. Let me know if you want to swap some for genetic variation sometime. I have three tanks of them running right now.