Short update, away from the fish & new links

This has been awhile, the main reason is that I am currently away from my fish and don't really know what is going on, apart from that they are doing well.

The only fish close to me now are my precious Ancistrus sp., plenty of tetras and a two pairs of Angelfish. Both the Angels and the Ancistrus are spawning but in a community setup I fear that  that very few fry will survive.

I have also added two new links to the site, these are two excellent sites that I have used many times for information so I highly recommend having a look!

Aquafarmen - very interesting Norwegian breeding projects


wildguppies.com - anything you need to know about wild guppies


Melander

Updated photos, Wild Brazilian Guppies, Poecilia reticulata

The new wild caught Brazilian guppies have now been separated into individual tanks to make sure that all of the founders get a chance to reproduce.

The photos on the left were taken when the males had settled down a bit, they are quite different then the stress colouration shown on the right.

Even now I do not find that the photographs are particularly representative as these fish seems to display different colours depending on moods, setting and lighting.






All of the females have dropped fry which is great, and the fish seem to have settled in well.

More to come regarding these,

Wild Brazilian Guppies, Poecilia reticulata

I have gotten my hands on some wild caught Brazilian Guppies, these are great little fish and I'm really looking forward to keeping them. The fish has gotten me interested in guppies and I have even joined the forum www.guppy.se where I have gotten some great advice.

The original "founders" consist of four males and four females picked out from an import of around 500 animals. The eight spent about a month in a quarantine tank where approximately 20 little fry were released.

My intent is to maintain this strain long-term, for this reason the four pairs have been separated to make sure that each individual gets a chance to reproduce. The fry from the quarantine tank are also being kept in a separate tank as it is likely that they are the offspring from males in the shop and therefor add to the genetic diversity of the total group.

These are the four pairs; note that the photographs show the fish in stress coloration. They are all far more colourfull in real life.

The plan is to follow and record their progress, the next step is to try to take some photographs of the males in their new tanks when they have settled in and colored up.

Offspring from the originals groups, 2015.02.01: