<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#222222"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 9pt">Having
failed at locating wild type guppies for sale, I am going to try an
experiment. I will try to recreate a strain of wild type
guppies from feeder guppies using good ol selection. They will
not be "pure" wild guppies of course, but hopefully a good
representation of the wild guppy phenotype.</font></font></font><br><font color="#222222"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 9pt">I
started with 20 feeder guppies. Set them up in a quarantine
tank and started selecting. 6 of the 20 had definite fancy guppy
traits - colored tails in females, snakeskin in males. Those
got culled (luckily I found a store nearby that will take them so I
do not have to euthanize the ones I need to select out). Of the
14 left, 4 look like nice wild type males - 1 top sword, 1 bottom
sword, 2 plain tails. All the males have the blotches of color
seen in wild type guppies - blue, purple, pink, yellow. A few
of the fish look sickly, although 1 has already started looking
better after just 2 days of better care.</font></font></font><br><font color="#222222"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 9pt">Any
tips or pointers? Has anyone here done this? How long
should I quarantine them before introducing to my South American tank
(planted with a small school of small tetras)?</font></font></font><br><font color="#222222"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 9pt">Thanks!</font></font></font></p>
failed at locating wild type guppies for sale, I am going to try an
experiment. I will try to recreate a strain of wild type
guppies from feeder guppies using good ol selection. They will
not be "pure" wild guppies of course, but hopefully a good
representation of the wild guppy phenotype.</font></font></font><br><font color="#222222"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 9pt">I
started with 20 feeder guppies. Set them up in a quarantine
tank and started selecting. 6 of the 20 had definite fancy guppy
traits - colored tails in females, snakeskin in males. Those
got culled (luckily I found a store nearby that will take them so I
do not have to euthanize the ones I need to select out). Of the
14 left, 4 look like nice wild type males - 1 top sword, 1 bottom
sword, 2 plain tails. All the males have the blotches of color
seen in wild type guppies - blue, purple, pink, yellow. A few
of the fish look sickly, although 1 has already started looking
better after just 2 days of better care.</font></font></font><br><font color="#222222"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 9pt">Any
tips or pointers? Has anyone here done this? How long
should I quarantine them before introducing to my South American tank
(planted with a small school of small tetras)?</font></font></font><br><font color="#222222"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 9pt">Thanks!</font></font></font></p>
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