Show Off Your Fishtank!

[MuskieBait]

(09-21-2012 03:21 PM)Giuga10 Wrote:  

(09-20-2012 11:53 PM)MuskieBait Wrote:  Guppies are fun. You buy a pair and you don't have to buy any more for the rest of your life!

At one point, I breed some very beautiful black guppies. Only the head and the front half of the body was silver. The pectoral, pelvic, dorsal, anal and caudal fins were jet black. Very beautiful and I've never seen pure black guppies before. Too bad I move to Waterloo for university and they eventually died off since I was not home caring for them...

At one point, I had a little 5 gallon that had a pair of swordtail, a pair of guppies, 4 goldfish, 5 neon tetra, 4 tiger barb and a algae eater. It's a lot of fish in a tiny tank, but all the fish were actually doing very well...until one mishap with a water change...too rapid a temperature change and all the fish except for the goldfish and guppies died. Oops...young and unexperienced...

I would love to have a tank right now...but no room at home...

Awesome! BTW the Guppies you had, they were black... did you buy them that way or did you find a food or edible for them to change coloration. Id really be interested in this as it would bring some new colors to the tank. And there's a Pets Mart opening up near my house so hopefully I can add some new fish to the tank!

Thanks,
Giuga10

I think it was a weird genetic experiment that gone right in my tank.

Originally I had a metallic blue male and a metallic red male that had black on the tail end of the body, but all the fins were either blue or red. They look a little similar to yours.

I needed to get a few females for them and found some on sale at this little aquarium. I got two females I got had pure silver bodies but black fins, and one female had a black body but yellow fins.

Somehow, the males and females mated and I got a couple of the black babies to reach adulthood...then I further inbred them and got more black babies...and so on and so forth.

So out of the 2 males and 3 females I had initially, I bred 3 generations that had at least a couple of "all blacks" in each generation. It seems like in the end I was getting a few more "all black" babies...but a lot of them did not reach adulthood. I only had a 5 gal tank and the limited space meant a lot of competition...and many babies don't survive to adulthood. The rest of babies that grew up usually had either had blue fins, red fins, and yellow fins. If I had an extra tank, I would just fill it up with the "all black" babies and see if I can get a line of "all black" guppies to establish. One day, when my career is a little more established and life settles down a little, I'd like to see if I can breed some "all black" guppies again. I do love guppies.

Talking about this makes me miss my tank so much...maybe I'll get a 5 gal and get a few guppies...a 5 gal doesn't take up that much space...and it can house 10-15 guppies no problem...just don't tell the aquarist Nazis who think more than a couple of fish in a 5 gal is homicide to the fish...