looking for guppy

[mycoolhoney]

i have a new tank and would really love to stock it with some nice guppies

[5thwardboy]

Re: looking for guppy

John at Houston Aquatic will satify yours needs. He specializes in breeding guppies. He has ton of them. beg him to check out his fish room in the back, you will not be disappointed.

[mycoolhoney]

Re: looking for guppy

Does he have IFGA quality guppies b/c I want the tank to look as nice as possible

[guppymax]

Re: looking for guppy

What kind (color, caudal shape, or whatever) of guppies do you have in mind? Your tank is pretty large for a guppy breeder. I appologize for not answering your email. Is creating eye candy in a planted tank your objective or do you want to breed some fish?

max

[mycoolhoney]

Re: looking for guppy

mostly eye candy in a planted tank and i'm really interrested in  Purple Moscow Guppies but i'm still very open

[guppymax]

Re: looking for guppy

The best looking ones that I have seen came from Ramirez who advertises on Aquabid. They kind of struggle in the Houston water but they were magnificant. I have some of them that I crossed with albino german white that look pretty good if they are feed sparingly and often. I have a few purple guppies that are as good as any I have ever seen but my supply of this strain is too limited to share. I may loose it myself.

Guppies were originally hard water fish but over the last 180 years they have been moved and acclimatized to water all over the world, mostly soft. Now we with Houston's hard water need to acclimatize them back to hard water. The biology of hard and soft water are different. The process takes about three generations or a year and a half if all goes well. Sometimes this is not the case.

Big tails, caudals require a genetic component and an environmental component. Either one without the other does not get it. The environmental component is to feed small balanced meals at least five times a day. Eight is much better. Most working people do not have time. They might buy good fish and then complain that they did not breed true, that is that they did not feed them right lol.

If you can find local fish that have been that way for generations life will be simple. So the options are:

1. Check out John's fish. I have not seen them.

2. Check out my moscow albino geman white which is purple.

3. Get some fish from Ramirez. You could also check out the winners at the IFGA shows.

4. Switch colors and talk to a number of different people at the HLA myself included.

5 Something else

max

[smonjazeb]

Re: looking for guppy

I have quite a few fancy guppies.....i dont know if thats what you are looking for or not.

[kadz]

Re: looking for guppy

I read this thread the other day and just realized it was nearly a year ago from the last post.  Just wanted to update.  I was at Houston Aquatic the other day.. there was an older man in there, the biggest sourpuss I'd ever met in my life.  Did NOT want to talk to me, or any of the other customers there.

Guppy selection was also sub par.. and some little hispanic girl came in, possibly an employee?  Went straight to the back.  No idea there.

Will not return.

[villa1973]

Re: looking for guppy

well it is what it is, unfortunately there is a few good guppy breeders intown who do a good job.
if you need any i have some nice pictures and i would gladly show you my fish room.

[turtle]

Re: looking for guppy

kadz,

I've had similar experiences there, but would recommend that you give them another chance.  John (I think that this is the guy's name) is actually very knowlegeable and can be very helpfully if the place isn't  crazy busy.  I have found some good deals and some hard to finds there in the past.  I haven't been there in a couple of years, but even then the hired help was never been very good.  
Just my 2 cents.

G

[Tiapan]

Re: looking for guppy

yeah similar experience from me. you could find something rarely but usually not worth the effort, and never had help there.