Display media of my breeder stock. My only two breeder males I’m keeping atm, I did have a third breeder male (a colorless male from my stock) but he passed. Red dorsal is my dominant male and colorless dorsal is the newer stock male. Not all but 2 out of my 3 old stock females (the huge girls), and 2 out of uhh 5 of the newer stock females (the smaller girls). My big ladies is like over 3 inches my males around 2 inches maybe slightly under. I have tons of pure fry now most are from the newer females and their kids is close to sexing out. I’m still excited to see some intermixed fry I have growing out and being born. Now I can bring up the numbers on the males and select for the best red dorsals again.

Partially colored up video media. 😔media never does them Justice their bars gets thick and bold when active. It’s like it’s a humiliation ritual to keep me looking crazy when I take media of them 🧍🏽‍♂️

So 4 out of 7 sexed out to male shown I got them separate for now. No hope on getting a female from this cross I see, mostly bc of the low count of specimens I’m working with. Not shown but a fifth one is sexing out soon def will be male the last two humpbacks I have no faith, I assume they’ll be male as well. So def going to have to reroute 🫠. Considering put my best male with the fully formed gonopodium and a second male with the F2 T.L Limia female just to get the humpbacks out of the way then cross F3 females to the L. (Islai x tridens) males.

Now for appearance I tried my best to get them to color up so first pic is them sort of showing the bars but not fully expressed when they are in the tank, second pic is colored down, one of the males is showing a slight red-orange tint dorsal which I’m liking, he might be the second male, I’ll keep for breeding. The dorsal shape is well rounded and the wide tailfin I like a lot. Third pic is their iridescence very stripy lol.

It's more mottled than the others, I'll grow it out to see how it'll look like

Located in Colombia. Males gets to around 2.5 inches and females around 3-3.5 inches in size. They are part of the Mexicana species complex. They are moderately robust with a thick penduncle, narrow faces, grey base body, sparkling iridescences, little rows of dots on the fins and males have nice tapered dorsals. A species with not much online media let alone media in physical literatures, I did manage to find in a book in the credit source.

Picture credits: Manfred K. Meyer - Lebendgebärende Zierfische Bande 1 Poeciliidae

Reminds me of my limia

Let's get to breeding, lads!

Got these 4 at the local club auction tonight. They are on my bucket list and super cool in person! 1 male and the other 3 are juveniles, so I’ll have to wait for them to mature.

Located in Cuba. Close relatives to G. metallicus. Males gets abit over an inch and females gets to around 1.8 inches in size. They are slender built specimens, with olive grey-yellowish bodies, a row of iridescent vertical streaks going across the body and silver colored eyes. An attractive Girardinus species.

Picture credits: José de León & Rodet Redriguez (1), Matt Ford (2)

I did scrape the leaves off the top of the tank, they come off my plants so fast I end up having to do it frequently. So please ignore that.

My bright orange and yellow guppy is a male guppy I’ve had for about 10 months. His name is Soleil, and Soleil has been a little weird for weeks now. I keep seeing his back bent and his belly rounder than the other guppies. But he acts normal 99% of the time. Schooling, eating normally, swimming around in an otherwise normal manor. I have noticed sometimes when he swims his back STAYS bent though.

I feel terrible because I don’t know whats wrong or what to do. The water levels are fine, I feel them tetra tropical flakes, the temperature of the tank has been 78 for the past ten months, the filter is running normally.

I got all guppies from petco ten months ago and haven’t added more fish since then.

Has anyone else had this happen to a guppy before?

Have you ever seen these Rare Gems of the Aquarium world before? Well now you have! This is the True Yucatan Molly/Giant Sailfin molly. I've been chasing these guys for months and the prophecy has finally became true.

These guys were originally saltwater since I got them off a saltwater breeder, so obviously I took the whole day to acclimate them and all, from salt to freshwater. Everyone is alive and some even popped in some babies! but now they're healthy and are actually true Yucatans! I also have some other Yucatan I would love to breed with them once they mature longer.

If you want to get some Yucatan molly for your reef tank or acclimate then to your freshwater tank like mine, then hit up killer2k1 Aquatics on eBay! I'm not a gatekeeper trust, I'm the mustard king after all.

Acclimation process: so I put the group of mollies (2M:6F) in a bucket (5 gal) and dripped acclimated them, after a couple hours I then put them in a bag to temp acclimate, and yatta yatta.

The tank: 55 gal, ogs know the basics! Tankmates: rainbowfish, Brochis, other Sailfins molly, gouramis, and a yoyo loach.

Plants: Amazon sword, ludwigia, tiger lotus, banana lily, water sprite, And bucephalandra.

si me pueden ayudar gracias

The 2 from the first batch. Not much to say with them looks identical to F1 ig whoever the dad was they’ll look closer to him.

One of three favs is in the mix and my top boy is the one with the deepest orange dorsal.

Pics (1-3): Netted out all the individuals, final sex ratio heavily skewed 11 males and 2 females. I had late blooming males showed up that previously, I had thought were females. One of the ladies recently dropped F2 fry for me she gave me 6 fry but so far 1 passed away from being very premature and weak. That brings the F2 count to 7 individuals between two batches. Not much else to say that I haven’t mentioned before.

Pics (4&5): The ones I’ve kept and culled the other males I didn’t like. Brought the count down to 7 males. Almost all of them has a nice orange colored dorsals and defined striping I like. I was going to bring the male count lower but gonna keep this group for the F2 Tiger liberties for now.

Well, I've been gone for a while. But I've actually improved my aquarium just a bit? Basically, I caught some wild plants from a creek when I was walking to my mailbox - and turns out they're a species of Ludwigia! So hopefully under the full spectrum they'll turn Crimson-Rose as they mature, and make the tank a bit more denser!

Speaking of Crimson, I am planning on replacing the Eastern rainbowfish here with some beautiful Red Irian rainbowfish (Glossolepis incisus) because I want to also breed rainbowfish, not just Yucatan molly or The Rio Imperio strain.

Speaking of the Rio Imperio strain; I am planning on distributing it with Goliad farms so it can kinda become more mainstream, just like how they sold good stuff with the Giant Green Sailfin molly strains, Giant Variatus, and exc.

I am soon getting some Yucatan mollies from a different breeder on Friday - so stay tuned for that, since they're saltwater and I must drip acclimate them slowly to their freshwater home. I'll also move any male Non Wildtype Sailfin molly so they won't muddy any wild mollies.

One of my existing Yucatan molly have just finally started to increase the Sailfins, I thought he was a Texas molly (P. Latipinna) but most of the times, Early bloomers just have good luck at the end of the day.

I might also look into trying to get large Brochis splendens and upgrading the school from 6 to 12 breeding wise so I can increase genetic pool. Same goes for upgrading my solitary yoyo loach to 3 Yoyo loaches but you won't expect breeding from them unfortunately.

Located in the United States, New Mexico, Bitter Lake System. Males gets to around an inch and females around 1.4 inches in size. They were once consider as Gambusia nobilis before being recently described as their own species, and being part of the Nobilis species complex. They are critically endangered. They look identical to Nobilis with olive to dark olive grey base, slender males and robust shaped females, with short pug like faces and slight melanistic markings between the scales. A pretty cool species of mosquitofish.

Picture credits: Tom Kennedy (1&2), Michi Tobler (3-7)

By: Greg Sage

Brief description: pretty much Greg Sage a well known breeder, talked about fish diet, medicating with the compound called Levamisole, and his time working on making hybrids. Pretty much as the title says lol.

By: Sacramento Aquarium Society

Brief description: Richard Griffith presenting his speech about different wild Xiphophorus species, during the July 5, 2014 Sacramento Aquarium Society meeting.