Endlers

would have been less per fish if you'd bought more....I just bought 20 cardinals and 6 SAE and had them shipped.I look at like this:it's way cheaper than taking the time to drive to wherever they are and bring them back,both in time and money.

If you'd have driven a couple of hours and bought them,how much would they have cost then?

MtAnimals said:

would have been less per fish if you'd bought more....I just bought 20 cardinals and 6 SAE and had them shipped.I look at like this:it's way cheaper than taking the time to drive to wherever they are and bring them back,both in time and money.

If you'd have driven a couple of hours and bought them,how much would they have cost then?

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True. $8 each isn't that bad I guess for purebred.

I once got ~8 endlers from Ebay. A huge blizzard hit the week they were in transit, delaying the shipment by (no joke) two weeks. Would I surprise you if I told you that they were all still alive? No? What if I told you that they took so long to arrive, they ended up breeding, increasing the order size to about two dozen. True story.

I just don't understand the big thing people have for endlers.
They are just tiny less pretty guppies after all.

Ok, it is many years since I kept guppies, but I still prefer the classic fan tail with equal proportions to the body.
What am I missing?

I've had guppies and endlers, I prefer the endlers myself.

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Nordic said:

I just don't understand the big thing people have for endlers.
They are just tiny less pretty guppies after all.

Ok, it is many years since I kept guppies, but I still prefer the classic fan tail with equal proportions to the body.
What am I missing?

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I think a lot of people (myself included) prefer the more natural look. Fancy guppies look freakish to me. The fan tails do not swim as well as wild-types, and sometimes even seem to have difficulty getting around. I think nature did a fine job on guppies the first time around, no modifications necessary.

I think I'll split the difference and go for hybrid endlers. I like the round and spade tailed varieties.

Bananableps said:

I think a lot of people (myself included) prefer the more natural look. Fancy guppies look freakish to me. The fan tails do not swim as well as wild-types, and sometimes even seem to have difficulty getting around. I think nature did a fine job on guppies the first time around, no modifications necessary.

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I started in fishkeeping with 'normal guppies'. Back in the late 60's when you got normal guppies there were no fancy culls or other partial fancy guppy traits in those fish. I think I may have gotten a strain of 'feeder guppies' but they looked like were the classic Trinidad coloration with the multi colored squiggles and blotches without any long tails. And none of the females were bicolored.

I'm wondering, can you can still get true, wild caught Guppies? I think that all these fancy strains, like Longtail Danios and Blackskirt Tetras, tend to take something away from the subtle coloration of wild strains. This new color sport of "Orange Flame Tetras' are not as pretty as the light pink wild strain with their subtle purple-blue highlights seen in a sidelighting.