Poecilia wingei pregnant but no male!

SA.L.Tanganyika

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Hello.
I bought 4 aquariums in a rack, i got a loot of endlers with the tank, and shrimp, other fish, plants, snails ++
So when i got these home (with a little water in the car ride, because 300 shrimps and 50 endlers new born is hard to catch) XD

And i set up al the tanks slowly and everything lived.

The next day i rearranged some of the fish, i gathered al the endlers in one tank.
And some days later i saw 2 new borns in the shrimp tank, really! new borns! just head and tail, and so smal.
I thought "o weel il just move them when they get older, no need to rush they wont harm the shrimp"
And some weeks after i say "hey they will be females, then i can give them a nice male and start a new line"
Now many more weeks later, i am looking for a nice male.
and they are only 2 fish in the aquarium, and now i see 1 is pregnant! how can she be pregnant?
She was seperatet from the group before sexual maturity, as an new born :O

the other one as expected is not pregnant :)

I've had fish for over 10 years, i know how a new born endler look like O:)
 

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Pregnant and no makes around....better call Maury for paternity test Tuesdays!

Sorry for the derail. Thought it was funny.
 
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SA.L.Tanganyika

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Pregnant and no makes around....better call Maury for paternity test Tuesdays!

Sorry for the derail. Thought it was funny.
haahhhhaha agreed.
I Have a theory... since there was like 50+ endlers i moved, maybe a little young male was in there i did not see him and he died and was eaten by the shrimps before i realised it was 3 babies in there?
And he only was quick enough to make 1 of the 2 females pregnant? ^^,

but in theory, a female baby can not get pregnant if there is no male.

How do you make lines that you like to keep breeding faster?
I have in my group, males with red and blue, and ones with only blue (yes i know its a hybrid not a true endler).
I want to make the blue ones :)
Al males that show red i put in a male only tank ore give\sell.
 
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I'm pretty sure guppies and all that can be gravid even without a male, but I may be wrong.
 
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