r/poecilia

Just bought from the fs and I can’t tell if she’s just fat or I’m gonna have a billion mollies?

Located in the Paria Peninsula, Venezuela. Males gets to around 0.7-1 inch and females 1-1.2 inches in size. Close relatives to P. reticulata, and P. obscura. Like their cousins males are highly polymorphic, and unlike their cousins they are more vibrant in color. The females lacks any colors, and are plain grey in color. They can readily hybridize with other guppy species, which in turns, created the strains of domesticated endlers we have in the hobby. But for this reason, N-class Endlers are very hard to come by, with some sources being dishonest about keeping pure specimens, handing out P-Class, and K-Class hybrid endlers as pure Endlers… Very few keepers stay true to source Like AdrianHD. He’s a credible distributor of N-Class endlers in the U.S. Anyways they are a beautiful Poecilia species. So many variations so here’s a couple nice ones.

Picture credits: “Campoma #8” Daniel Grummon (1), “Campoma #29” You Le (2), “Campoma #61” Wojtek Golianek (3), “Campoma - El Tigre” Unknown (4), “Campoma - Pantono” Robert Nicolas (5), “Campoma - Rio de Oro” Yohichi Baba (6), “Campoma - Puerto la Cruz 2011” Suzuki Nozomi (7), “Cumana - Black bar” AdrianHD (8), “Cu112 - Black bar 2016” Phanuphan Chaosukho (9), “Cu113” Wuttipong Saywuttinon (10), “Cumana - El Dorado” Unknown (11), Cumana - El Silverado” Latrell Shemar (12), “Cumana - Lime Green” Mirko Casali (13), “Cumana - Mint Top Yellow Sword” AdrianHD (14), “Cumana - Miyuki” Mirko Casali (15), “Cumana - Red Chest” A. Eywill (16), “Cumana - Orchid” AdrianHD (17)

Located on Grand Cayman island, where it shares waters with Limia caymanensis. Part of the Punctata complex with (G. punctata, and G. rhizophorae for example). They get around 1.75-2.5 inches in length. They have a pretty flat head, short penduncle, and sport a yellow to orange body while the color is more concentrated on the bottom of the tail fin.

Picture credits: By: Manfred K. Meyer - Lebendgebärende Zierfische Bande 1 Poeciliidae (1&2), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (3)

Located in the Yucatán peninsula. They are the biggest Molly species in the genus, Poecilia. Males and females can get up to 4-6 inches in length. They are stocky, with males having golden faces when active, and tall sails compare to other sailfin species. They have rows of lateral dots going across the body and fins. This species is also widely commercially available, with a ton of fancy strains, and hybrid strains.

Picture credits: Sonny Haase (1-3), “Albino” Sonny Haase (4), Aquaroum Glaser (5&6), Unknown (7&8)

I've noticed this juvenile guppy (a bit older than 2 months) and wondered if it's a male or female. It has a triangular anal fin and plump stomach which points it to a female, but it's way more colourful than any females I've ever seen!

There was a heatwave recently and the water temperature was raised up to 30°C at some point. Could that be affecting/ suppressing her female hormones and causing her to express typically male-associated traits?

Or could this be a recombination event occurring, where the Y-linked Ssb gene jumped to the X chromosome during meiosis?

Any opinions/ suggestions would be greatly appreciated 🙉🙉🙉

lleva unos 2 meses y no los he alimentado ellos encuentran en esa cubeta microrganismos o cosas así

Located in Colombia, males reaches about 0.78 in and females 0.98 in. They’re the smallest known Livebearers. Males in this genus can project their gonopodia to the right or the left of their body. While females are ovoviviparous via superfetation (holding different broods of fry at different stages of life, dropping them a few at a time and not all at once). Body wise they tend to be silverish on the chest portion of the body and having orange/gold and black alternating bars. Extremely peaceful and delicate, they make perfect nano tank fish.

Picture credits: Aquarium Glaser

Humpback Limia (M) x F1 Tiger Liberty Poecilia hybrid (F)

(50% Limia nigrofasciata, 25% Limia islai, 25% Poecilia salvatoris)

They didn’t want to cooperate with me and flex their bars🥲. When colored up their bars looks pretty nice just couldn’t get it on camera. They are showing more Nigrofasciata body shape, deep chest cavity and sloped heads. The black dorsal trait from Islai is still dominant and with the Nigrofasciata blood being majority the saturation looks nice with a slight yellow hue to it. Unsure if Salvatoris blood will make the fins tinge orange/red but I’ll see. They look very promising I’m just more curious on how the dorsal will be shaped when they are more mature.

Chromosome wise any males will be Z for Nigrofasciata and Z for either Islai or Salvatoris, as for females Z for Nigrofasciata and W Salvatoris.

I have a 6.6 gallon tank. It has been running for 14 months now. I have 6 male endler guppies and 5 Neocarodina shrimp, and some mesa ramshorn snails. Does this feel or look cramped or is it overstocked? Could you give some suggestion or recommendations anything helps. I am also planning on filling the middle empty space with water sprite.

My water parameters after a week:
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 5
Ph: 7.4-7.6

Thanks in advance.

I have a 6.6 gallon tank maybe it’s heavily planted idk. It has been running for 14 months now and it has 6 male endlers, 5 neocaridina shrimp (with one berried shrimp), and some mesa ramshorn (pest snails). I hope it’s not overstocked. But could you kindly help me identify whether I have the pure kind of endlers or the hybrids.

Thanks in advance

Tiger Limia (M) x F1 Tiger Liberty (F)
(75% Limia islai, 25% Poecilia salvatoris)

Little one picked up a lot of size since I last showed it. It’s iridescent starting to come in, it’s like a soft blue/green/white nice combo of both species involved in it. The bars thickened up more, looks more broader. It’s dorsal is nice starting to look rounded like Islai with the same black trim. Like with pure islai it can control the intensity of the bars and most of the time it keeps it translucent, so it’s hard to catch it on camera with his bars boldly expressed.

Can anyone help with this one? I was told this was a female but it’s the one that chases down my other females.

Located in Guatemala. Males gets to around 2.5-3.5 inches and females around 3-4.7 inches in size. They are elongated slender yet robust bodied specimens, with silver/olive gray base body, rows of lateral dots going across, pointed faces, and nice iridescence. They are part of the Mexicana complex, being close relatives to Poecilia limantouri, Poecilia thermalis, and Poecilia sulphuraria. They are suspected to be a natural hybrid species between sailfin complex and mexicana complex species. The confusion with this species is that it shared names with the sailfin species Poecilia kykesis, old name of Mollienesia petenensis, this species names was changed to Mollienesia gracilis. This current date and time it was validated by Fred Poeser as Poecilia petenesis, and the sailfin being called Poecilia kykesis.

Picture credits: "Lago Peten, Guatemala" - By: Manfred K. Meyer - Lebendgebärende Zierfische Bande 1 Poeciliidae (1&2), Unknown (3)