Johnnys Right?

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Chub_by said:
Guppy
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You sure? Dang I was hoping to start a Mosquitofish colony for $1.98 :). Oh well, I guess I can buy some from my friend's LFS. I'll probably put the guppy in a 15 with other guppies since it's a female and can visibly give birth to very large batches of fry I'm guessing because of how many fry I see in it.
 
I would be curious to know if guppy and gambusia can cross breed. Also please let us know how your white sucker works as an alga eater.
 
PUHUCBLMX2 said:
I would be curious to know if guppy and gambusia can cross breed. Also please let us know how your white sucker works as an alga eater.
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Well I believe they're both Poecilids so it may be possible. Also my sucker and most native suckers for that matter aren't specialized algae eaters. They more eat small dead fish, crustaceans, and inverts in the substrate. Mine is on a staple diet of flake food which he eats mid water and occasionally gets frozen brine shrimp. I haven't observed him eating algae once. If you're looking for a native algae water then stonerollers fit that role, they're minnows but probably the most "suckerist" looking minnow I've seen.
 
I've got a few people on nanfa now telling me that it's definitely gambusia because of the pointed snout and length so now I'm not sure. If it is gambusia I'm pretty sure it's Holbrooki, just looks to bland to be a guppy to me.
 
The head/face structure made me second guess for a second but it looks an awful lot like the tank full of feeder guppies I have. The females are extremely plain looking, and the males aren't much better.
 
So between MFK and NANFA combined I've got 3 votes for gambusia and 3 votes for guppy.
 
dont gambusia have black speckling on their fins and tails? Maybe I can't see from the pics but it doesn't appear to have the markings. It sure does have a weird body shape though...
 
I noticed the sloped structure too, looks non guppy to me personally.

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predatorkeeper87 said:
dont gambusia have black speckling on their fins and tails? Maybe I can't see from the pics but it doesn't appear to have the markings. It sure does have a weird body shape though...
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They do but I thought maybe it's still stressed since it was in a feeder tank with ghost shrimp crawling on it every 2 seconds.
 
divemaster99 said:
They do but I thought maybe it's still stressed since it was in a feeder tank with ghost shrimp crawling on it every 2 seconds.
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haha well, hopefully the fry are born and you can grow them out and see what you have!
 
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