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ALBINO BLUE GLASS
This strain is a medium-sized Japanese developed strain that is highly prized in Japan and rare in USA (Available here in the USA at Luke's Show Guppies) and is the albino variety to the Blue Glass strain. This ...
BLUE GALAXY GUPPY
This strain is a Japanese strain that can be called a blue variegated cobra. Known worldwide as a Galaxy Blue Glass, the strain garnished 4th place in recent World Guppy Contest competition in Brazil in the color match ...
FULL REDS GUPPY
These reds are the most notable new strain development to be released in quite some time. The full body solid color which matches the finnage perfectly has been worked on for several years by Edgar Chaisson of the New England Fancy ...
GERMAN RED LACE SNAKESKINS
These stunning snakeskins were aquired by me on my recent trip to Germany and the Czech Republic in 2001 . They are the work of my friend Herman Magoshitz and Detlef Samnet, both of whowm are some of Germanys top breeders. ...
10 Tips On Keeping Fancy Guppies
1. When starting out, only acquire one or two trios of the same line. To maintain a single strain and keeping it pure, you will need about 8 to 10 tanks. It is better to use smaller 5 gal tanks for breeders and fry. Guppies can live in a wide range o ...
A Basic Breeder Setup for Guppy
Imagine not only being able to create your own personal guppy, but then being able to send it to a show and possibly win a first place trophy to boot! That is the goal for all show guppy breeders. B ...
A Workable Line breeding Program
The past several days I have been looking over some articles that have appeared in our publication over the past few years. Most of the material is of great value to the breeders. Techniques regarding the development of different strains are abund ...
AOC BICOLOR & BLUE/GREEN BICOLOR COBRAS
The Galaxy Type Cobras are a striking fish with Leopard pattern caudal and dorsal. Cobras have won the AOC bicolor class and Varigated Veil color class from time to time. The cobras and the lace lines complement each other well and are frequ ...
Aquarium Setup And Maintenance
One of the first and most serious problems an aquariast can encounter, is adding fish to an aquarium setup that hasn't been properly cycled. This one basic step has caused many would be fish enthusiasts to leave the hobby before they really get start ...
Beginner guppies
Beginner's Guide Welcome to the world of Fancy Guppies. This portion of the International Fancy Guppy Association (IFGA) site is provided as help to those new to fancy guppies. It is not intended to be a c ...
Blacks Guppy
The original line of this strain originated from Adrian Hernandez in Florida, and was outcrossed by Craig Smith to a Jamie Magnifico Purple, to create the new line. The caudal had a much better delta shape than most other blacks that were on ...
BLUE GLASS GUPPY
This strain is a well established Japanese strain that is conformable to IFGA show classification for the blue green bicolor class. The strain has recently won in the Blue/Green Bicolor Class for the first time in IFGA competition. ...
BLUE PLATINUM
This strain comes from the original Japanese Platinum Redtail strain but was made blue by the introduction of the Blau gene. This gave the Platinum an exiting new color variety and is relatively new introduction from Japan. ...
BLUE TOPAZ ALBINO
They have pastel blue solid caudal with no pattern, and matching dorsal. They look very stunning against a black background. Body growh on this strain is very good for an albino. They carry thicker than average peduncle ...
Breeding Guppies
My guppy tank set up. This set up is not for breeding show guppies. This method is just for fun or practice. Equipment 10 gallon tank Regent 5-10 filter 2 breeder nets 1 Penn-Plax 5 Plus Breeder, Nursery and Display Tank Descripti ...
Breeding Guppies
There many, many different ways to involve yourself in the hobby of breeding guppies. Many people start out with an interest in the new fish they have acquired since they are beautiful and seem to reproduce with reckless a ...
Breeding the Guppy - Poecilia reticulata
When you start talking with beginner fish hobbyist about breeding guppies the first thing you hear is, “That’s not hard to do. Just get a small tank and add water, and insert guppies. Wait a few days and you have them bred.” Well fo ...
Breeding Your Guppies
After you have acquired your new Guppies, you will need a breeding program to properly maintain the quality of your strain. Without proper breeding techniques, even SHOW GUPPIES will revert back to looking like the wild guppy in a few generations. ...
BRINE SHRIMP
Over the last several years it appears that the most asked question regarding feeding guppies relates to the difficulty of hatching baby brine shrimp. Let us examine what brine shrimp are and where they are found and harvested. Brine shrimp are natu ...
Feeding Your Guppies
Feeding your guppies is one of the most important steps in getting them to grow to large show fish. This is the stage (the first 2 months) that during this period that the guppy grows the fastest and the development of good body traits ,large and str ...
Filter Changes
In my fish room I have spent a lot of time watching fish and in my own way studying their behavior as related to water changes and filter changes. In reference to filter changes I have actually seen a tank of fish “clamp up” after the ...
Fish Food Recipe
Dennis Beatty has been breeding show guppies for almost ten years. He is also a member of the Deep South Fancy Guppy Associates. Below is his secret recipe for breeding show winning fish! DENNIS BEATTY DISCLAIMER STATEMENT: & ...
Flake Foods
When the tropical fish hobby began to gain popularity it was essential that the hobbyist would be able to maintain his prized specimens. There were at the time many homemade recipes for making and preparing fish food. Some of the early pioneers mad ...
Frozen Beef Heart
Beef heart (about 4 lb.) Jars of strained baby food containing no sugar 4-jars of carrots 4- jars of peas 4- jars of sweet potatoes 1- zucch ...
GENETIC WHITES
This strain I have had for about 2 years now and is doing very well in my fishroom. It is triple recessive albino, blue(nonred/yellow) and gold : Genetic White(aabbrr). This happens to be an extremely rare strain and is the white albino strain that ...
Genetics, My Observations with Fancy Guppies
Most of the common rules for recessive and dominant factors/traits still hold true in today’s guppies. Instead of applying these rules to tail shapes (as most genetic charts do) I will explain certain observations I have made regarding color ...
Getting Those Guppies To The Show
This article will hopefully encourage potential exhibitors to feel confident to send or carry their fish to the shows. After many months of work raising your prize specimens to show size the next step is to allow everyone to admire and judge your ...
GUPPIES DISEASES
Guppies, like all other fish, are prone to disease, and although an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, there are times when it is better to destroy a diseased fish than attempt to affect a cure. All diseases have an origin, but some are ...
Guppies Foods and Feeding
Guppies are not too choosy about foods and are very easily fed. They will accept any dry foods offered; for their size, they have enormous appetites. However, dry good diets are not sufficient and must be augmented with either live, frozen or freez ...
Guppies Introduction
Why is Guppies a all time favourite fish among all the tropical fish? The reasons could be with the guppies attractiveness, hardiness, availability, interesting habits and room for improvement through genetic experimentation. It is this attribute ...