Are mosquito fish guppies or are they killies. I netted a bunch of them and I put them in the guppies breeding tank. I want to get some new breeds going instead of inter breeding the same old guppies. good idea or not?
mosquito fish-guppies or killies?
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Nope neither i think they are live bearers tho!, i've read that that they should be put in a Heavily planted species tank!
a7x_6661;2118129; said:
What? Neither are killifish. Both are members of the Poeciliidae family and are livebearers. Mosquitofish are NOT guppies, but they are from the same taxonomic family.
Titania;2119037; said:
What?? she knows mosquitofish are not guppies. and she knows that they are obviously livebearers considering she and i watched them give birth. she spends the majority of her time researching guppies just like i research mainly gars and other primitive predatory fishes. and she has read (and i have saw) that they are both killifish. but maybe professional guppy breeders are wrong.
Guppies and the wide ranging Gambusia genus (everyone's favorite) are Livebearers, but are related to Killifish. If they're not, I belive they shoukd be. They look similar, are live bearing fish (i think) and have similar.
There's quite a difference between the Gambusia genus and Poecilia genus. For one, Gambusia are built for predation on insect larvae. They have a large mouth which they also use to inflict damage during disputes. They can be quite a aggressive and tend to be fin nippers.
Poecilia in general do eat a variety of insect larvae but have a completely different jaw setup. They have a grazing mouth which combs rocks, wood, etc and collects algae and diatoms from the surface. They also "comb" the water surface and eat the film on the surface. Their jaws do very little damage when fighting.
I've kept a variety of species from each genus to come up with this guideline.
Now for the classification. They're very different from killifish in fact/science.
-----------Livebearers ----------------------Killifish
Kingdom: --Animalia---------------------------Animalia
Phylum: ---Chordata--------------------------Chordata
Class: -----Actinopterygii---------------------Actinopterygii
Order: ----Cyprinodontiformes-----------------Cyprinodontiformes
Family: ----Poecilidae-------------------------Fundulidae
Genus: ----Poecilia/Gambusia------------------Fundulus
Now another thing. Killifish vary immensely and are one of the most diverse families of fish. There are continual spawners, annual spawners, substrate spawners, mop spawners, etc.
Yes they look a like in some ways and they both have fins and gills but they're not closely related.
Just wanted to clear that up.
Poecilia in general do eat a variety of insect larvae but have a completely different jaw setup. They have a grazing mouth which combs rocks, wood, etc and collects algae and diatoms from the surface. They also "comb" the water surface and eat the film on the surface. Their jaws do very little damage when fighting.
I've kept a variety of species from each genus to come up with this guideline.
Now for the classification. They're very different from killifish in fact/science.
-----------Livebearers ----------------------Killifish
Kingdom: --Animalia---------------------------Animalia
Phylum: ---Chordata--------------------------Chordata
Class: -----Actinopterygii---------------------Actinopterygii
Order: ----Cyprinodontiformes-----------------Cyprinodontiformes
Family: ----Poecilidae-------------------------Fundulidae
Genus: ----Poecilia/Gambusia------------------Fundulus
Now another thing. Killifish vary immensely and are one of the most diverse families of fish. There are continual spawners, annual spawners, substrate spawners, mop spawners, etc.
Yes they look a like in some ways and they both have fins and gills but they're not closely related.
Just wanted to clear that up.
hybridtheoryd16;2104474; said:
Lol I posted this while back in my case I did not get Mosquito fish/ store bought fancy guppy hybrids.
I had 3 black/white male mosquito fish real pretty with several F guppies that were seperated as young from males never bred.
Month's went by got nothing .
Not saying it won't happen but after few months assumed it was lost cause .
I tried a F mosquito fish with 2 fancy guppy males but the F mosquito fish attacked them, nipped them ,chased them and ended that union after few days.
-----------Didgeridoo;2126516; said:There's quite a difference between the Gambusia genus and Poecilia genus. For one, Gambusia are built for predation on insect larvae. They have a large mouth which they also use to inflict damage during disputes. They can be quite a aggressive and tend to be fin nippers.
Poecilia in general do eat a variety of insect larvae but have a completely different jaw setup. They have a grazing mouth which combs rocks, wood, etc and collects algae and diatoms from the surface. They also "comb" the water surface and eat the film on the surface. Their jaws do very little damage when fighting.
I've kept a variety of species from each genus to come up with this guideline.
Now for the classification. They're very different from killifish in fact/science.
-----------Livebearers ----------------------Killifish
Kingdom: --Animalia---------------------------Animalia
Phylum: ---Chordata--------------------------Chordata
Class: -----Actinopterygii---------------------Actinopterygii
Order: ----Cyprinodontiformes-----------------Cyprinodontiformes
Family: ----Poecilidae-------------------------Fundulidae
Genus: ----Poecilia/Gambusia------------------Fundulus
Now another thing. Killifish vary immensely and are one of the most diverse families of fish. There are continual spawners, annual spawners, substrate spawners, mop spawners, etc.
Yes they look a like in some ways and they both have fins and gills but they're not closely related.
Just wanted to clear that up.
Great info no wonder I never had any luck getting hybrid's . I just assumed same type fish .