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Post by momo on Jan 5, 2006 7:11:53 GMT 10
Alrighty, here's my two males (any idea what colour that's called?) and some of my fry in the background.  This photo was taken on 10 December 2005, the fry were 1 month old and I'd just moved them from the bowl to the big tank. They've had huge growth spurts since then but I'm having troubles getting non-blurry photos. Oh yes, that plant in the background is no more. It went all brown and the leaves started falling off and messing up the tank so I took it out. |
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Post by Cyberguppy on Jan 5, 2006 10:24:29 GMT 10
nice guppies. not quite sure what they are from the photos but if thet have a faint wriggly line pattern on the body they may be flametail snakeskins. That particular plant is quite hard to grow without a lot of light and fertiliser. if you would like something great for a unlit tank that is very easy to grow look for something called 'java moss' or another called 'java fern'
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Post by momo on Jan 5, 2006 10:35:02 GMT 10
nah, no pattern on them that I can discern. Just a plain pearl coloured body and bright red tails (and sometimes red dorsal fin). There's been a bunch of them available recently at the Broadway pet shop in Sydney. I do have a light in my tank but wasn't using fertiliser (thanks for the tip!). everything I read online about guppies mentions that java fern stuff so I'll see if I can find any of that.
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Post by sammigold on Jan 5, 2006 11:13:33 GMT 10
Nice gups... cant help with id sorry... but can also say that elodea will probably grow quite well. it does in our tank... its pretty easy to find and grows fast... java fern is nice but grows very slowly.. (have some in my discus tank) hth
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Post by Bumblebee on Jan 11, 2006 23:18:54 GMT 10
they look a little like a thai guppy called a sunrise, not to sure though as I have only seen the albino version.
Nice fish!
another easy plant if you have any light is Watersprite, its a medium sized floating fern, great for hiding fry, it also directly absorbs ammonia from the water so can be helpful in cycling tanks. it is sold here under the name 'lace fern'. as the old leaves die they release small plants so once you get one you have a never ending supply of the things.
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Post by momo on Jan 12, 2006 8:20:22 GMT 10
nice work - I just did a search for sunrise guppy on google images...closest I could find was an image of a "tequila sunrise guppy" which has the same body colour (right down to the red area near the guppies head), but instead of a solid red tail fin it has a yellow spot at the base of the tail. Of course, mine aren't show bred guppies, they're just cheap pet shop mongrels. Maybe they were culls from someone who's breeding those tequila sunrise guppies. I definitely think we have a winner.  (image sourced from google) |
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Post by Cyberguppy on Jan 12, 2006 21:07:38 GMT 10
Nice, I find a lot of the T.Sunrise in AUS are the ones with the blended colour tails like yours, that gradually fades from yellow to red IMHO a better looking fish than the american one with two solid colours.
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