You might be further ahead just breeding a large population of mosquito fish and gradually subjecting it to cooler temperatures untill you get a cold tolerant population of fish. It may take 20 generations but eventually you will get there.
common mosquito fish X fancy guppy?
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Or theres cold tolerant mosquitofish already existed, I heard someone's working on cold tolerant spotted and albino mosquitofish project.
Mosquitofish/guppy hybrids do existed.....in perserved bottles in the labs.
Mosquitofish/guppy hybrids do existed.....in perserved bottles in the labs.
jrpatter;2406622; said:
Ummm, mosquito fish sure are Poeciliids. Not in the same genus obviously
Potts050;2409197; said:
They are cold tolerant for most part what I wanted to do was add color to them .
Thus cold tolerant mosquito fish but with color . It was just an idea for fun that I went for but it didn't work out and I gave it over 5/6 months .
man, john was right, they dont cross. ive had guppy ponds for years now, the guppies and gambusia never ever cross bred.
and they are already cold tolerant. they handle our winters here down to a few degress no worries. near everyyear all the guppies will die out bar a few.
if you get some gambusia in your guppy ponds none will live the winter but the gambusia.
what will kill them is ferocious bubbling in cold water but they aure are strong. ive seen em rip at tadpoles in groups and they will chew the fins of goldfish if kept with them.
as for developing cold water strains of guppies. ive found it dont work well. i can keep one strain through a winter and breed the next year and you dont get much more surviving that winter but you do get a lot of undesirable colour and badly shaped tails so you need to introduce new stock to beat this. its not like a winter kill out results in much to select from in way of breeding colours and good tails see.
and they are already cold tolerant. they handle our winters here down to a few degress no worries. near everyyear all the guppies will die out bar a few.
if you get some gambusia in your guppy ponds none will live the winter but the gambusia.
what will kill them is ferocious bubbling in cold water but they aure are strong. ive seen em rip at tadpoles in groups and they will chew the fins of goldfish if kept with them.
as for developing cold water strains of guppies. ive found it dont work well. i can keep one strain through a winter and breed the next year and you dont get much more surviving that winter but you do get a lot of undesirable colour and badly shaped tails so you need to introduce new stock to beat this. its not like a winter kill out results in much to select from in way of breeding colours and good tails see.
