Guppy breeding question...?

Question

Two of my fancy male guppies mated with a wild guppy . She has no specs of color, one male is yellow with an orange tail, and the other is blue with a really long tail. The only 2 male offspring (that survived) are nearly adults and show wild guppy characteristics (colored specs), but no long tail or bright, bold colors. I read that blue is a recessive gene, but wouldn't the offspring be more colorful? (I'm surprised!)

I bred two beautiful fancy guppies and they came out absolutely stunning! Colors from mom & dad :).
(Also, I have noticed there is a higher ratio of females per batch. Is this usual?)

Answer 1

Most of the traits that make fancy guppies fancy are recessive to be honest. Breeding one of those males back to a fancy female would put serious color back in your line. Blue is generally recessive to red in guppies, but not to yellow, yellow is one of the most recessive colors and one of the least stable. I wouldn't expect to get yellow back from that line in less than 4 generations... 6 would be more realistic and that would include using the yellow male you have started with to sire off spring with future generations. It is currently estimated that up to 10% of a guppies color genes mutate at any given mating, so that would explain the problems in solidly fixing most recessive colors. Reds and blues are controlled by several genes and are much easier to fix in a line than yellow which is carried on only one gene.

Hope that helps

MM

Answer 2

In wild guppies, the bold colouration is an indication of maturity and health. Some may not show their bright colours until they are fully adults. Secondly, since you only have two surviving males, we can't be sure what the entire brood would have looked like. Wild guppies are extremely varied in colour and patterns even withing the same broods. If you are interesting in the crossing, you may wish to mate the two males with more wild females and more fancy females. Then pick out the best of both to cross. It all depends on what you final objective is. To get the desired result in one brood is improbable.

Answer 3

definite, guppies do genuinely go breed. Any form will mate with any form. bypass to the puppy keep and get you a toddler catcher,yet do not get one in each of those nets, get a plastic one with suction cups or section hooks. even as the female is getting close to beginning time, her abdomen will swell & get darker & darker. position her contained in the toddler catcher after the swelling is extremely large, reason at that element she's in straightforward words per week or so from giving beginning. about 2 days after the first toddler is born, you are able to launch her, yet for the period of both days, you are able to grind your fish food into powder, so as that the children can capture a number of their bottom slot (they'll regularly slip into their bottom slot shortly after beginning). once you launch her, keep the children contained in the toddler catcher for 2 months, as a fashion to be positive they're okay to face up to the clear out. contained in the intervening time even if, you are able to proceed to grind up your fish food for them. be careful no longer to enable the inhabitants explode, because once you make the most of toddler catchers, many extra live to inform the tale than universal.

Answer 4

A lot of inherited genes are recessive and come out in later generations...That's probably what will happen here.

Answer 5

actually i read somewhere that offsprings normally dont keep the coloration of the parents, which suck. i think i read it off of www.aquariumfish.net


im glad you had male offspring i keep getting female!!


good luck!

Answer 6

I think it'd just be a matter of recessive genes and no primary

Answer 7

Read more about Guppy genetics,it will all become clear.

Answer 8

just let 'em keep breeding. the later generations will develop lots of different color and fin patterns.