I’m pretty sure she’s pregnant, is that what’s making her attack the others?

Located in Motagua River in Guatemala. One of two subspecies of Phallichthys amates species group. Males reaches around 1.75 inches and females 2.3 inches in size. They are robust, angular shaped, with very short penduncles. Also this subspecies is recognizable for their thick black band on their dorsal, black streak on their eyes, and thin vertical bars on the top half of their bodies.

Picture credits: Aquadiction (1&2), Aquarum Glaser (3&4)

Located in Trinidad to the Amazon River delta. They have two distinct morphs, gray and red morphs. Males reaches about an 1-1.2 inches, and females 1.1-1.2inches. They are a type of guppy species in the Micropoecilia subgenus of Poecilia, while being a sister subgenus to Acanthophacelus (Reticulata/Obscura/Wingei). Unlike their Acanthophacelus guppy relatives, Picta’s and other members in the genus Micropoecilia, have a rapidly degrading Y chromosome. To compensate for that the females, X chromosome has twice as many linked genes to it. Meaning the females will pass down her genes to her sons and daughters, while the fathers passed his linked traits to his daughters, and chromosome to his sons. They are slender, with a range of painted orange to gray body color with black markings. They have a short tail fin, and oval shaped dorsal fin. This species truly thrive in brackish conditions. But they can tolerate full fresh, and full salt. Domesticated specimens now can do well in full fresh, thanks to commercial breeding.

In my experience, they are tricky, I already lost my first ever colony due to wasting diesease, and dropsy. Even though I’m giving picta’s a second chance i still lost some founder fry after a couple of months to wasting but I think, I got the hang of it, on how much food to give them, and what they prefer to eat. They like green matter with some protein, so I recommended a source of algae for them to graze on, and biomatter/mulm. Some salt in the water goes a long way. From my first colony, the fry I got from them were tiny and skinny they can fit through floating specimen breeding containers, so I prefer a breeder net or a separate tank entirely to grow out fry. This species aren’t prolific breeders, but they make up by how beautiful they look. Keeping this species is not for beginners or intermediate keepers… I still have a hard time with them, it’s sort of a let down as of late I’m down to an adult female and a juvenile sibling that damaged its spine during while they were being shipped to me.I’ll def get more again given the chance. They are my favorite guppy species.

Picture credits: “Red” Peter Maguire (1&2), “Black” lebendgebaerende.info (3), “Trinidad”Aquarium Glaser (4&5), “Gold/Blonde” AdrianHD (6&7), “Red” Latrell Shemar (8-11), “Red” Thomas Gleim (12&13)

im currently treating the tank with kanaplex bc of a few guppies showing signs of cottonmouth, but this female seems to be missing several scales along her head and back. she's been acting really territorial and swimming around quite erratically and chasing the others a lot as well, but I'm not sure if these are correlated. I've already treated the tank with aquarium salt so I'm not sure if there's anything else I can do, anyone have any insight?

edit: thanks for all the love on her lol, her name is Lisa Frank and she's a red dragon I got as part of a trio from Tucky's Bettas. she's colored up tons since I got her and I hope I can help her to feel better :(

their personalities never fail to bring me joy :3

Limia islai (M) x F2 Wildtype Melanistic Liberty Molly hybrid (F)

(50% Islai, 37.5% Salvatoris, 12.5% Sphenops)

None show any signs of bars either plain body or melanistic. Splotches is dominant over bars in this cross apparently. Not keeping all except the one fry that’s the most freckled. Also there’s only 1 fry that has a pale grey toned base over that copper grey base the rest has. I had just fed them but their body form is somewhat bulkier than the Tiger Liberty (islai x salvatoris) cross, head shape is more bulldog ish, def because of the sphenops blood.

Liberty Molly (M) x F2 Blonde melanistic (F)
(87.5% Salvatoris, 12.5% Sphenops)

They are about 1 week old, there were def more fry hiding around the tank, I caught out throughout the week, when I first posted the two fry. So far from one F2 blonde female, she gave me 5 melanistic Blondes, and 3 plain Wildtypes (unsure if any will show late melanistic markings). The wildtypes are def pure liberty fry passing but I’m not gonna use them for breeding just the blondes. They look quite nice better than the F1’s, and F2’s when they were fry. I was under the impression that backcrossing to liberty using only blonde type specimens, I would get lower percentage of blonde offsprings, but nope that female gave me more blondes to wildtypes.

I wish I took pics the day I was adding the Carophyll and Astaxanthin to the fishes diet. Okay I got the compounds on April 14th so 2 weeks and a few days ago. Last pics I had of these two F2 blond Liberty females was March 13th. As you can see the pics i took today, Ik i wasnt tripping out they are pink hued 😭. Ofc I wouldn’t notice the gradual color shift, it was only bc I was scrolling through my camera roll, I realized how shifted their colors were. Yes the blondes are def more noticeable over the wildtype Livebearers in the tank. I have high confidence the blonde ladies fry will be 100x better than them color wise.

Located in Jari river drainage, in northern Brazil. They are part of the Branneri complex being close relatives to P. branneri, P. bifurca, P. minima, and P. sarrafae. Males gets to around an inch, and females 1.5 inches in size. They are olive grey slender bodied specimens, with an orange dorsal, an eye spot marking on the front of the body, a spot on the base of the penduncle, with a red/black/blue top sword (shown on males).

Picture credits: Edward James

Only found in San Marcos Spring, Central Texas, US. They get 1.6 inches in size. They are expected to be extinct in the wild last known siting was from 1983. They have dark gray body with blue iridescences, yellow tint fins with black trimming in the dorsals. Not much media of this species but they are a pretty nice looking.

Picture credits: Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

both of my female purple mosaics have this white fuzz around their mouths, one much more than the other. I dont see any other signs of sickness on them but if it is an infection i feel like i should treat asap. Should i treat the whole tank? What do yall recommend? I already treated the tank with salt but really dont want to lose them.

I'm relatively new to guppies, mostly just had some girls in a tank. I took them because I only had a few girls and a bunch of plants in my tank.

He's going to take any offspring I get and bring them into the store he works at, and he was *supposed* to tell me what kind they were because I was curious, but he's been busy for the last few weeks and I'm impatient. ;-;

Honestly just trying to satisfy my curiosity.

Located in Rio Conchos of Chihuahua, Mexico. They are part of the nobilis complex. Males gets to around 1.2 inches and females 1.5 inches in size. Appearance wise they are very robust, with bulldog/pug like shaped faces, black streak on the eyes, olive grey body, with bluish-green to yellow-goldish iridescence, and faded yellow fins mostly.

- Pic credits: Ivan Dibble (1), Marco Arroyo (2), Gabriel Hernando (3&4)

The first batch of islai x tridens are getting quite chonk lol. They’re now around 2 months 1 week old. Close to sexing out maybe another month. Pics 1-6 these juveniles are 6 out of the 11 in the first batch is growing in the main tank they’re slightly smaller than their other siblings I have in the 5gal growing out. These hybrids do remind me of the Lendlers when they were juvies def bc of their tridens influence. Pics 7-11 are the other 5 siblings from the 1st batch. Slightly bigger than their other siblings as mentioned. They colored down more pale bc of the no lights and bare bottom in the their tank. When their bars are colored down they do resemble tridens more with a funky mouth shape.

Per the instructions, first dose was Tuesday. Second dose was Friday, and I did a 25% water change just this morning (Sunday). An hour later, I notice a long white piece of poop from one of my endlers.

All other fish appear to be fine. There is another endler (you’ll see in the later part of the video) that looks like a long white poop, but that’s just its tail.

Was the treatment ineffective or is this normal following a treatment and it’s just the fish expelling the parasites? Do I quarantine this fish, which unfortunately means culling since I don’t have another quarantine tank set up.

Thank you in advance.

I noticed a few months ago that one of my female molly’s right pectoral fin seemed opaque and had some tissue on it, but I wasn’t sure if it was just a genetic/colour variation I had not noticed before. I’ve had her for about a year and got her as an adult.

However, I’ve seen the growth slowly get bigger and spread from the fin to her chest. She seems to have a hard time using that fin compared to the healthy side. She’s otherwise well, active, eating well, has delivered at least one litter of babies since. I’m assuming it’s either a benign growth or slow growing cancer, but I just want to make sure it doesn’t seem like anything contagious. I have multiple other mollies in that tank and none of them have this. I have attached pictures of the growth as well as the healthy-looking left side.