molly x platy
- Thread starter bukster
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I should also make one quick note about this:
The above fish would be if it was a hybrid would be a Platy x Swordtail x variatus x Sailfin molly x sphenops molly... It would be multiple hybrids combined.
All commercial platy and molly are highly hybridized already. Xiphophorus however cannot naturally hybridize with Poecilia.
guppy breeder;773205; said:
Guppies can naturally breed with Mollies and a few other closely related fish in the genus Poecilia. Very close relatives such as P. wingei (Endler's livebearer)they will easily hybridize with.
Molly x Guppy hybrids are rarely encountered and it is a rare event that the fry come to full development and survive. Below is a photo of one that I had in my collection for some time.
bukster;774904; said:
I have only dealt with a few..None where much to say anything about. They have a bit of orange or blue on the fins, maybe some spotting at times but otherwise they are dull and not very hardy. One hybrid I had was a snakeskin guppy X wild sailfin..This was interesting but nothing to write home to mommy about. It is rather rare to come about these fish, all that I have kept and worked with where either artificially produced or freaks that someone sent me.
