Introducing my full black high dorsal ATFG trio

Hi All

i was lucky enough to get the last pure black high dorsal trio from Len, hopefully i will be as successful as he was in breading them.
just thought i would share them for now. appologies for poor quality pic
will be posting pics of my breading setup

 

Very nice. I will have to get a pair from you at some stage

 

for sure, i will start a new thread as soon as i have my first batch

 

Congrats @Ammar. I'm sure these are going to make you very happy. Always good to start with decent quality stock.

 

thanx i sit and stare at them for hours. they are beautiful love them, waiting for babies soon i hope

 

wow, absolute beauts!

 

What are your intentions with these beauties? Are you going to be breeding pure lines or crossing them?

 

thanx very much

 

well i have 3 pure black females, and 1 male, and then i have a redlace trio that i also got from Len, they look awesome, im looking to breed them for now and see what interest i get from members and then once i have a few as a backup, i will start cross breeding. they are beautiful fish, Len managed to breed them with high dorsals, males and females, i will post a pic of the red Lace soon as i get. im hoping my females are all bearing at the momment so soon i will have fry hopefully and a couple month after will look at selling some to try and cover for my daily expenses of running 8 tanks!!!! one of which is my 700L tank

 

Dude, these fish are definitely not going to cover your costs. Although you and I can see the beauty of these fish, I reckon the average LFS will not buy them and if they will, they won't give you very much for them. I would do your homework very carefully before going this route (breeding guppies for money).

 

True. I breed a lot of Angels and 6 strains of ATFG guppies for a LFS, and I have to mix them up before supplying, as they will only pay a minute price for a guppy. To them, a guppy is a guppy is a gupp...... I would love to supply them with true breeding strains, but then I would want a higher price. (Growing them on seperately takes a lot of tank space.)

 

I know its OT, but it seems the site is being attacked by porn spam. Move your cursor to the word "love" in my reply above to see what I mean.

 

LOL not looking to make a living out of it, i doubt i'll even offer them to LFS, i think i will make them available to those that really appreciate quality guppies, mostly members i would say. it is quiet a costly exercise with all the tanks that you need. i have a few tanks i'll play around with it ans see how it goes.

 

sure does, im currently running 6 small tanks for my guppies. i guess ill take it more as a challenge for now and experiment with them and see where it takes me..

 

Use them to create colour for your 700l. I had all my males in my 300l and females in my 100l but I have seperated the blues from the reds and mixed males with females again to get the next batch of fry. So currently my blues are in the 300l and my reds in the 100l. I will do the fish juggle in the holiday to get all the males back in the 300l.

 

thats a plan, i probably will do that, i just don't like the fact that they top swimmer. and i think my tetras will nip them quiet bad.

 

My cardinals leave my guppies alone but that may be because there are only 6 of them. Hopefully they will be ok as I intend increasing my cardinals to about 20. If not, cheers guppies...

 

i have 2 guppies in my work tetra tank, they have no tails but still surviving.. my tetras feast on them.. but im with you on this one,, if i had the choice between the 2, Guppies definetly will come short

 

Simple economics - Common Guppies R10.00 vs Cardinals R20.00. Sorry guppies :laugh:

 

LOL didn't think of it that way