Fish Lovers 3.0 [new poll]

[PeachFuzz]

Username: PeachFuzz
How many fish tanks do you have: One 10 gallon and one 20 gallon
Types of fish that you have: 1 betta, 2 fancy guppies, and an African Clawed frog
Your fishs' names: Betta: Watermelon - Guppies: Sunset and Elsa - ACF: Prince Fredrika
How long have you had fish: About three years c:

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Sunset is pregnant <3 She's gone into hiding so I believe the babies will be coming soon.

[spiderfish]

Username: spiderfish
How many fish tanks do you have: 2 currently running, a few empty (that will be re-setup later)
Types of fish that you have: 1 Betta, 5 Neon Tetras, 3 Bumble Bee Platies, 1 Pearlscale Gooldfish.
Your fishs' names: None of my fish are named, fish die when I name them.
How long have you had fish: Almost all my life, but only properly for a few years.

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Guppy Experts!
Was wondering if someone could help me with identification.

I was looking in the guppy tanks in one of my LPS today, and there was one fish in that looked like a guppy, but the colour made me think it may not have been.

It was solid jet black all over, with a few gold speckles on its belly. Same shape/size as the guppies, and same fins. Its tail was of the smalle rounded kind (same shape as the others in the tank). It was also in the female tank.
I couldn't get a picture, but I will try to find one like it on the internet.

Is it possible that this was something else, or does it sound like a guppy?
Because if it is a guppy, i want it. If not, then probably wont get it.

[Blood Storm]

Username: spiderfish
How many fish tanks do you have: 2 currently running, a few empty (that will be re-setup later)
Types of fish that you have: 1 Betta, 5 Neon Tetras, 3 Bumble Bee Platies, 1 Pearlscale Gooldfish.
Your fishs' names: None of my fish are named, fish die when I name them.
How long have you had fish: Almost all my life, but only properly for a few years.

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Guppy Experts!
Was wondering if someone could help me with identification.

I was looking in the guppy tanks in one of my LPS today, and there was one fish in that looked like a guppy, but the colour made me think it may not have been.

It was solid jet black all over, with a few gold speckles on its belly. Same shape/size as the guppies, and same fins. Its tail was of the smalle rounded kind (same shape as the others in the tank). It was also in the female tank.
I couldn't get a picture, but I will try to find one like it on the internet.

Is it possible that this was something else, or does it sound like a guppy?
Because if it is a guppy, i want it. If not, then probably wont get it.

did it look like this?
if so it is a black Moscow guppy(Moscow I guess means solid in guppy terms, Moscow blues are solid blue and Moscow reds are solid red).

[PeachFuzz]

I think Sunset is going into labour! She's laying on the bottom of the tank, shaking, and sort of moving in place. I believe those are signs of labour, so I'm ready for the fry.

[flyteck]

I just got so lucky at the pet store.
We just swung by by chance, and they had a tent sale on.

There were some high-quality goldfish pellets (usually $23 for a very small bag) on for $10 per bag! I bought two bags <33
My guys can get some fancy food now ovo

[spiderfish]

@ herpluvin

No, it was more black than that. There was no variation in the black at all, it was just one solid colour.
And the gold speckles were...similar to speckles on a bumble bee platy.

It's hard to describe, it was so unusual. I've never seen any kind of fish coloured like it before.

[Blood Storm]

@ herpluvin

No, it was more black than that. There was no variation in the black at all, it was just one solid colour.
And the gold speckles were...similar to speckles on a bumble bee platy.

It's hard to describe, it was so unusual. I've never seen any kind of fish coloured like it before.

very strange, I would honestly buy it and a few other guppies just to have it. you never know what she is and if they are selling her as a guppy you may get a very cool fish for the price of a mediocre one.

I would look into hybrids, guppies sometime will hybridize with mosquito fish, TRUE wild type massive evil as crap sailfin mollies, and endler's livebearers. maybe she is a hybrid of some type, in that case I would buy her and check her temper, if she hates guppies, go and find "feeder" fish that look like big dull guppies, these should be, as long as the males are not rainbow colored, mosquito fish, they are the best livebearer to keep with aggressive fish because they too are aggressive little runts(I have seen wild schools of them take on big fish like Oscars, and win).

my grandma and I went to our nearby pet store to buy some guppies for her tank and they had this...fish...

it looked just like a female guppy, but was about 4 and a half inches long not including the long fins, and was yellow bodied with a black stripe running down its side. its fins were clear with red edges. she was all alone in her own tank, so we asked the pet store worker why she was separated from the rest. he said that she was so aggressive that she started killing the other guppies, so they moved her into a tank with some gouramis and small cichlids, where she immediately went to town and killed more fish.

my opinion was that she was a very, VERY rare hybrid between a guppy and some form of wild livebearer(most likely mosquito fish, due to her nasty temper).

I am a sucker for weird fish and if I found a fish like that it would be a happy fat creature in my very home.

[spiderfish]

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herpluvin

I'm hoping I can go back tomorrow, and its its still there I'm gonna get it.
From the few minutes I watched it for, didn't show any signs of aggression, and the tank was full. We don't have 'feeder' fish over here. Or, at least I've never seen them.

That sounds awesome!

One of the things that's confused me most about this fish is that is is EXACTLY like a guppy, size and shape wise. It's just the colour.
I even looked through the price labels to seel if it was labeled as something else.


Well, anyway, if I get it, I'll be sure to post pictures!

[flyteck]

@ herpluvin

No, it was more black than that. There was no variation in the black at all, it was just one solid colour.
And the gold speckles were...similar to speckles on a bumble bee platy.

It's hard to describe, it was so unusual. I've never seen any kind of fish coloured like it before.

very strange, I would honestly buy it and a few other guppies just to have it. you never know what she is and if they are selling her as a guppy you may get a very cool fish for the price of a mediocre one.

I would look into hybrids, guppies sometime will hybridize with mosquito fish, TRUE wild type massive evil as crap sailfin mollies, and endler's livebearers. maybe she is a hybrid of some type, in that case I would buy her and check her temper, if she hates guppies, go and find "feeder" fish that look like big dull guppies, these should be, as long as the males are not rainbow colored, mosquito fish, they are the best livebearer to keep with aggressive fish because they too are aggressive little runts(I have seen wild schools of them take on big fish like Oscars, and win).

my grandma and I went to our nearby pet store to buy some guppies for her tank and they had this...fish...

it looked just like a female guppy, but was about 4 and a half inches long not including the long fins, and was yellow bodied with a black stripe running down its side. its fins were clear with red edges. she was all alone in her own tank, so we asked the pet store worker why she was separated from the rest. he said that she was so aggressive that she started killing the other guppies, so they moved her into a tank with some gouramis and small cichlids, where she immediately went to town and killed more fish.

my opinion was that she was a very, VERY rare hybrid between a guppy and some form of wild livebearer(most likely mosquito fish, due to her nasty temper).

I am a sucker for weird fish and if I found a fish like that it would be a happy fat creature in my very home.

That sounds like a cool hybrid ovo
I'm not sure if guppies can be melanistic, but maybe she was a melanistic guppy? It's an excess of black pigment.
But yeah, I'd buy her if she wasn't harassing the other fish.

I have a one-eyed garra something, and he's a wicked awesome fish. He's grown so much since I bought him (over tripled in size) I don't have any cool hybrids though.

[scuttlefish]

Does anyone have a melantistic or albino fish? Anyone have cool fishes?

A fish I caught a fishing lake, it was an inch long and caught with half a water bottle. So fun! Anyways, it's in my five gallon.
My mom say's it'll grown to be a fishing fish that's six inches long.
He's been in there for three weeks.
Is it true?
https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6117/6305301348_2c68d49935_z.jpg
It looks like this from the top, but his tail is murky, and you can see scales, very vaguely the other side. Only color, like the ones of the plants. I want to know if he'll grow, and eat all the other fishes or not so I can send him back to the lake early if needed.