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rfoote 
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Posted: January 02 2005 at 9:55am |
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I know not saltwater, but thought this was fairly strange. I've had a small eclipse tank for about 18 months with neon tetras and 1 female guppy. About 2 weeks ago I had little baby fish everywhere. I just figured they were neons being I only had 1 guppy. There all guppies. Go figure?
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Will Spencer
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Posted: January 02 2005 at 12:37pm |
Guppies can store reproductive fluids and have several batches of babies after only 1 visit to a tank with a male. I must say that 18 months seems like a long time to store those fluids though.
If some of them grow up and have some decent coloring on them I'm looking for a new strain to put in my tanks. I have several generations of guppies now, but you are only supposed to let them interbreed with each other a maximum of 3 generations. Maybe we could work a trade.
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 11:47am |
Wouldn't it be cool, if it were possible, to be the one to develop the new "neoppy" or would it be called a "guppeon."  
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 2:20pm |
I vote for "Guppeon". However, since they breed so differently I'd have to wonder what kind of genetic laboratory you have to make it happen. 
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 7:20pm |
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Will - Let me see how many of em' live and I'd like to do a trade. I can tell a couple of them are males and not sure about the rest yet. I'm trying to think how long I've had the female, it had to at least be about this time last year.
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Posted: January 03 2005 at 7:41pm |
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Will my son added some to his turle tank. A few do make to adulthood. I will put you first on the list for some offspring. He has yellow & red in addition to the one we got from you..
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Posted: January 04 2005 at 7:38pm |
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hey will I'd trade you some adults out. I need more spice to my tank. There bored of each other. Just come by sometime.
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I will just give my warning that your system will flood, bulbs will burn out, and things will take continuous maintenance... get over it.
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Posted: January 06 2005 at 1:09pm |
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Wow! Lots of people to trade Guppies with. I have a large batch growing up right now myself. When they are a little larger well all have to get together for a swap.
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Posted: January 06 2005 at 6:25pm |
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mmmmmmmmm swapping
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I will just give my warning that your system will flood, bulbs will burn out, and things will take continuous maintenance... get over it.
Magna
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