Black guppies

[villa1973]

Re: Black guppies

well you see this is what i was talkintg about, how hard it is  to keep a line working.
you dont know how important those females were to keep your line going.
just think about what will happen if any of those females have an important gene , and the other lacks of it
you must certainly ended up not having a line anymore, and trust me this is just the begining you could find more problems ahead, like lack of fertility, or small size, or etc etc.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Black guppies

Yeah it's probably gonna go downhill......I do know that Charles has a few females from this same gene pool so If worst comes to worst I am going to have to persuade him to sell them to me....

[Fire_chair]

Re: Black guppies

Those were nice fish, sorry to hear that. Good luck with the rest.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Black guppies

I still have one female left and did a water change last night.....also upped the lighting on the tank to possibly increase oxygen and deplete the harmful stuff  through plant growth.

Hopefully I can still get this one female to live and keep the line nice and pure......Really sorry Diego, I know if I would have just made the time to get out and meet you I would probably have had an extra female in your possession.... sucks but it happened.

Thanks Fire-Chair.....Maybe I can source out a few more of these black Moscows(what I am calling them) at the next meeting....or find out exactly where they came from.

[villa1973]

Re: Black guppies

well do not worry, this things happen so we learn.
i am not sure about this, but i doubt they are black moscows, its been
recently  but a line of black guppies it has bene imported from thailand so it could be possible that those
guppies were from that line, who knows.
anyway i look forward to met you in fish ranch and show you in what i been  working lately.

[eklikewhoa]

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Well I named them black moscows cause that was the closest looking thing I could find through endless amounts of google and pictures......but who knows...hopefully I will be able to find out the root of these black guppies soon.

[Fire_chair]

Re: Black guppies

Black-LikeWhoa has a nice ring to it.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Black guppies

Hahhahaa

Honestly I would really like to know what they are and possibly what lineage is running through them.

[Fire_chair]

Re: Black guppies

I saw some Full Black Moscow's on AquaBid that looked almost exactly like yours. The one in the picture looked like it had a hint of green on it's stomach, but it could have been the angle or something.

[Fire_chair]

Re: Black guppies

http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auction.cgi?fwguppies&1193101473

There's a guy in Webster selling some; could be where your's came from.

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Black guppies

Looks just like em!

Thanks! Gonna shoot him an email and see what he says.