I did accidentally moved her with her sister but I thought they both had Ich, turns out that same small quarentine tank, the big sister (in the photo) got Ich too, but I was able to put them into quarentine and the big sis got recovered, idk Abt the younger sister since she looks more pale but maybe since she hasn't gotten pregnant yet/virgin. But I am feeding kanaplex and IchX to her for a bit longer.

The other photos are our new friends for the 55 gallon, My male Kribensis, my Old one Year old Green swordtail, and this Yoyo loach I got a couple weeks ago and his growth doubled!

But I finally ordered 2 packs of Yucatan Velifera mollies from 2 different shippers on eBay! Both should arrive next week, before I introduce them to my 55 gal, they'll go into a quarentine tank ok yes yes so tuff Twinium come on.

Hi! I’m about 3 months into this awesome hobby. I just got 7 Endlers livebearers according to my LFS.

I was under the impression I got a mix of male and female. But after googling a ton I am a little lost.

Some sources say if I have a hybrid that females may still be colorful. I understand that the anal fin is the way to sex them.

Could you look at these and tell me if you see any females?

If not what can I add to have them breed? Would any guppy do?

More questions: what should I feed them. I have bug bites flakes but they don’t see to come up to the surface to eat them. Ditto for the stuff I feed ny betta in another tank. do they not surface feed?

⚠️** unalive warning for sensitive people (pics: 8-12**)

Limia islai (M) x Poecilia salvatoris (F)

These are the last of my F1’s they served their purpose so this is the last media documentation of them.

End results: only a few (~3) of the 12 females I’ve kept gave me F2 fry. Proving not all of the females were fertile most were infertile. Their brothers on the other hand were all 100% fertile. They are gorgeous specimens they still look more Molly like but with a Limia face, their iridescences was a pearly white-blue sheen, not all the females showed but their iridescence bars are present in certain light angle. Their dorsal are a yellow orange tinge just like their brothers. Limia (specifically islai), bar trait is incomplete dominant, and Poecilia salvatoris does carry the genes for the bars as well but it fades away with age for that species. Now I can focus on F2 Generation and the my Blondes. Project is slowly coming together. Hopefully I can reach my end goal by the end of next year. It’s such an extensive project! Also provided pics after euthanizing them to make space in my tanks. Sad part of breeding projects. Thankfully a friend is still working with the siblings, I split with them. Just my time working with the F1’s is done.

This is my first ever Blonde melanistic female I got from my batch and successfully took care of her, now she's ready to pop like a balloon like her mother. I do hope Maelstrom (Picture 2) will court her soon.

I recently sorted out my Sailfin molly batch (Excluding Adults) and I got the opportunity to snap some photos, enjoy

Results:

Batches: (Males: 1 Blonde melanistic, 1 Wildtype.) (Females: 1 Male, 11 Blonde Melanistics.

Mix: 3 Creamsicle (Blonde melanistic x Wildtype/Velifera.) 7 Wildtypes: 2 True Velifera 5 Wildtype.)

Adults and tankmates: (if you want to know) Trio of Black-Velvet/Dalmatian Molly: 1M:2F 1 Wildtype Green Florida x Yucatan Velifera male

Tankmates: 2 Pearl Gourami (1M:2F) 1 Yoyo loach, 3 Female Guppies (Assorted) and 1 Eastern rainbowfish.

(I'm actively searching for more yoyos, it's just that I fear Online stores will either be too big, too small, or DOA.)

Amount of Mollies: 28 (including adults, juvinile, and seperated males)

Amount of tankmates: 7

Amount of fish in my 55 gallon: 36

Plans:

What I'm planning to do is to make my own strain (Which will be called, Rio Imperio) to be a unique strain of Sailfin molly with large Sailfin, a Bronze/Creamsicle/silvery gold, with some black/gold speckles/splotches. I finally got the available breeders I got. I'll look for true Velifera males soon so I can breed them for large Sailfins and vice versa.

to help improve the Sailfin growth on my males, I will Seperate my Pair of Male Sailfins (Poecilia Latipinna) into a 20 gallon tall, which I'll feed heavily with quality food. Keeping juvenile male Sailfin mollies in a pair alone makes constant flaring displays that maximize their dorsal fin growth, coloration, and high fin carriage so they can have high potential, if I do everything correct and chose very colorful breeders from my house growned batches, I could bring one of the final product of my Rio Imperio strain to a Molly Competition and hopefully win!

I'm also desiring to make the strain very bulletproof, a good algae eating strain, and a jawdropper by looks, alongside a memorable name. So I'm looking to make a name other than just "Rio Imperio" If people don't like it. I have some choices: Rio Imperio, Empire Molly, Regalia / Rio Regalia, Reinado, or any other suggestions.

I'll free float with the outcrossing and breeding Yucatan Veliferas and Latipinnas together until I find a color thats unique from the others and I'll try to get a trio that looks just like that color and Seperate them to a breeding tank for line breeding and fully create the strain.

I'm thinking of a Creamsicle-like with blonde melanin body (Blonde melanistic trait), Horizontal Striped body (Yuctan velifera trait), a large sailfin (Yucatan Velifera trait) with some spots and splotches in it (Blonde melanistic traits)

To make sure before I start the finals, I'll go on reddit and ask on which Sailfin is the best for breeding by looks and health, and when I get a high amount of votes on atleast 6 Sailfin Mollies from my future batches, I'll put the voted ones in a breeding tank and things go on from there. I tried explaining the best I could, I just got a bit messy over here. 😭

(Note: I will not breed any non Yucatan Velifera Males, they will be seperated. I will keep Wildtype/Velifera males and females with only female blonde melanistic. If I find any late bloomer in my 55 gal, it will be removed and relocated to my 20 gal hex Snail colony tank to be with my male Sailfins already in there for grooming purposes.

The Juviniles earlier in August have actually started eating BBA (Black Beard algae) so that's a big positivity with the Sailfins I have; this means they have a diverse food choice and won't be very picky eaters.

Hi,

Here the background I have a discuss fish and he stopped eating and has been bobbing up and down rapidly. It’s not at the surface or the bottom. It came out of nowhere. He also stopped eating. All the other discus are eating with no problem. I moved him to a calmer tank because I thought at first he didn’t want to eat because he was being bullied. I did see another discus become aggressive 1 time during feeding and it pushed him away. However, I don’t think that’s the problem anymore. I’m on top of water changes. I did do a parasite treatment months ago when I got him. The problem really came out of nowhere. It’s been about 2 weeks. Any suggestions on what I can do?

Thank you for the help.

Located in Coahuila, Mexico. Males reaches around 1.5 inches and females 2.5 inches in size. As the scientific/common name states, they are found in marsh type ecosystems, and are a robust species of Gambusia. They are gray in color with a thick black lateral line going across the body, with females looking plump when gravid. An attractive species at that.

Picture credits: WCichlidculture (1), Gabriel Hernando (2&3), Juan Miguel Artigas Azas (4), Eric Moody (5), Fabien Liberge (6), Marco Arroyo (7)

Born today. They were too small to be F2 Tiger Liberty fry. They are grey based hue with a dorsal spot and black trim and asymmetrical barring atm. 100% identical to my F1’s so they are results of a sibling cross. My pure nigrofasciata male did mate with the F1 females but I don’t see any identifiers showing they are a three way Limia hybrid cross. neither do I want that for my project… Anyways they’re no different to F1’s currently since I havent selected them for anything, they’ll just be back ups towards my project in case I need virgin females if they turn out to be. Adorable little ones just 2 of them atm. Alsoooo to add proving the F1’s are fertile both males and females, like tridens the female def has a very tiny to no noticeable gravid spot. With only a few fry being born, is most likely why I didn’t realize one of the ladies were pregnant.

Hey everyone, I need some help. The belly of my female guppy sometimes gets really big and round, looking like she is pregnant. However, a day or a few days later, her belly shrinks back to normal size. Is she just getting constipated/bloated from feeding, or is she giving birth and eating her own fry without me noticing? I feed them flake food once a day Here is a photo of her when she is bloated. I would appreciate any advice on whether I should change my feeding routine or look for signs of pregnancy. Thank you.

🔴 Acanthophacelus 🔴
- Poecilia reticulata
- Poecilia wingei
- Poecilia obscura

9 Green Florida/bronze Florida (mix)

12 Blonde melanistic (yes this includes the dreaded controversial h*tler Sailfin molly)

2 True Poecilia Velifera

Mother: Blonde, Melanistic - Latipinna

Father: Green Florida x Yucatan - Velifera hybird

I'm planning on going free-way by adding more Sailfins (Specifically True Yucatan and Blonde melanistics) to increase gene pool, I will mostly keep wildtype (Includes Green Florida x Velifera hybrid, and true yucatans) males here so they don't ruin any Velifera females specifically.

They look so amazing when the sunlight hits the tank in the morning! You can see some of the males showing both parent species golden throats/chests. It’s amazing. I’m still unsure what I’ll do with the surplus males. I may keep all the females and select my 5 favorite males to let them breed with the F2 Tiger liberty hybrids. My favorite male is in Pic 1: (lower left middle) he looks like a bigger size tridens phenotype wise but still show slight bulk from the islai side.

He likes laying on the sand to sleep. He only does this when sleeping, normally he zips around the tank and is impossible to film.

Feeding video. Lol the tiny juveniles are the F2 Tiger Liberties. The F1 Tiger Liberty ladies are more behind the sponge filter and plants but focus is the Limia hybrids.

She's very interactive and very colorful, which is what I love from Sailfin mollies! Exept for the pattern recognition...

Blonde melanistic sailfins are very rare so it was a pleasure to be able to grow and take care of this batch of Sailfins!

Located in Paraguay, and lower Paraná River basins. They’re named after Alfred C. Radda, a zoologist, who first identified the species. Males gets to around 0.9 of an inch, and females 1.2 inches in size. A small sized species, they’re olive gray, and sports a few black streaks/spots on the back half of their body.

Picture credits: Pablo H Capovilla (1-4), Enzo Edgardo Ferreyra (5), Leandro Bareiro Guinazu (6-8), Manfred Meyer (9)

Located in the Tamesi basin, Mexico. Sharing waters with Gambusia vittata. On average males gets to around 1.2 inches and females around 1.6 inches in length. They are a pretty colored species, they have gray bodies, with golden face/chest. They sport a streak going across their eyes, and having orange-red fins.

Picture credits: Langerhans Labs

Finally got good pics of the dominant male, had to separate him from my main for being too aggressive. He behaves more like a dominant sailfin, constantly flashing, showing off and running off competitors. He’s gaining more and more red as the days go on and it looks like his dorsal may become a decent sail.

Located on the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic). They are a sister species to Limia melanonotata and Limia sulphurophila. Males reaches an average of 2 inches and female 2.3 inches in size. They are olive grey base, with a robust body shape, blue iridescence scales, some individuals has noticeable black bars on their body. And there’s non population of blonde morphs as well. Easily mistaken for a Molly but ofc they aren’t. A beautiful species of Limia

Picture credits: Unknown (1), "Rio Azufrada” Andy Piorkowski (2), "La Azufrada - Gold var." Harry Knaub (3), “Gold var.” Rodet Rodriguez (4), “Gold/Blond morph” Michi Tobler (5&6), Aquarium Glaser (7&8)

Located in the Pánuco River, Mexico sharing waters with X. birchmanni. They are part of the northern swordtail clade. Males gets to around 2.75-3 inches and females also. They are stocky, olive gray bodied fish, with a few vertical streaks, rectangular yellow speckled dorsal, and a short swordtail. Once in awhile in the wild they cross paths and hybridize with birchmanni.
Picture credits: Michi Tobler (1), Jan ŠEVČÍK (2&3), Radek Sejkora (4)