can guppy and maybe platies, swordtail breed?

Question

i want to breed a fancy guppy with any of the two....
last time i was able to breed a feeder guppy to a platy in a pond....so do you think fancy guppy and platies can breed?

Answer 1

I have never heard of, read of, or seen this happen. I'm not saying it didn't, but i would sot of like a dog and a cat breeding. It is even possible you saw the "physically breed" but it was all in their head! Someone else mentioned that they can have babies for up to six months after breeding. I have had females have 3 sets of fry after 1 breeding like in a 2 month period, so I imagine this is what happened in your situation. If you can prove me wrong and produce a platy-guppy hybrid, I want to be your agent, because we could make a lot of money!

Answer 2

Guppies will probably reproduce the fastest, it's almost impossible to stop them breeding. But they are all live bearers and need to special care to breed. Jsut keep them in the right conditons and baby fish just start appearing. Baby guppies are almost impossible to even give away, so if you are intentionally breeding fish I would go with the Swordtails or Platies. Buy some nice ones, breed them and you should be able to sell the offspring easy enough. Ian

Answer 3

I doubt your guppy bred with the platy. I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but livebears can store sperm from males, so after a single mating, they can continue to give birth for up to 6 months later.

Platies and swordtails are in the same genus, and there's already some cross-hybridization there (between the ornamental species Xiphophorus helleri, Xiphophorus maculatus and Xiphophorus variatus)
to make the different varieties, so you'd have a better chance at breeding these together than to try and breed either with the guppy.

Answer 4

This is possible but fairly rare. You may not have actually bred these two fish. Guppies and platy stay pregnant for a long time and will often be bought at stores already pregnant. Unless your fish look really weird and you can actually compare them to regular platy fry or regular guppy fry, I doubt that this actually happened. They can breed and the fry often die within the first month because these fish are the equivelant to imbred fish.

Answer 5

If the feeder guppy worked why wouldn't a fancy one? I didn't know it was possible to begin with but if you succeeded once, try the other.

Answer 6

platies and swordtails will sometimes interbreed if in the same tank