All about Guppies - 孔雀魚部落格

Grass - Red Grass

2007-07-29T23:45:00.000-07:00

In keeping grass (strain), there will be mix of blue grass, red grass and blau. Red grass is one of the less appreciated fish (for most people) when it is compared to its counterpart – blue grass. Nonetheless, I do find that it is interesting and good to introduce this fish to all of you. If I happen to spot a nice blau guppy from my grass collection, I will then share with you.

At a young tender age of 3 months, this red grass has a thick body and it has a very good potential of a show fish with its tail and deportment. It also shows very fine and dense spots on its tail which is a true feature of a grass.

I personally like the dorsal which is thick and "upward standing". This caught my attention when I was doing my regular rounds to feed my fishes so I took it out for a photo shoot.

Flamingo Red – 佛拉名格

2007-07-24T19:25:00.000-07:00

Recently, many breeders I know are in the trend of using this fish as tool fish for development of their red fishes.

This fish does not stand out in its not fully covered (red) compared to the Full Red. Nonetheless, it has a very well built body size which the albino Full Red cannot achieve. Another nice feature of this fish is the tail spread, its tail is very wide and delta. The nicest feature I personally fine in this fish is its dorsal. It is thick, upward standing and broad. Comparing to some fishes, the dorsal are long thing and “clamped”. This adds to the deportment of the fish and it portrays a confident look.
Some pictures of the younger fishes which are about 10 – 12 weeks old.

Snake Skin - WREA Yellow Lace

2007-06-27T00:44:00.001-07:00

Wine Red Eye Albino aka WREA is very unique gene of a fish that personally like very much. It looks like grey eye fish from a distance but when you take a close look at the fish, it has red eyes. The intensity of the redness of the eyes defer from each strain of WREA strain. Take a closer look at the pictures.

Comparing to my previous post on the yellow lace, it is relatively mild and light coloured. This WREA yellow lace created from the same line of my previous post. It has transformed into a golden shine of yellow with a Wine Red Eye Albino look not loosing the clear snakeskin pattern on the body.

Snake Skin - DT Line 8

2007-06-27T00:24:00.000-07:00

This is one of my favorite Red Lace Snakeskin - DT Red Lace as it has one of the best intense red colour and a very triangle tail. It has a very nice thick red dorsal with patterns evenly spread out with clear chain link markings. Looking at the photos, the young fish has a very good deportment and pleasing to any hobbyists.

Snake Skin - DT Red Lace line 1

2007-06-27T00:20:00.000-07:00

This line of red lace has a very fine snake skin pattern and it has won 1st place the Aquarama 2007 under the snakeskin lace category.

Sharing some nice pictures of the premium lace line.

Solid Colour - Moscow Blue

2007-06-25T22:12:00.000-07:00

I have decided to change my method of taking photos again (hoping to improve my photo taking skills ... haha). To take a nice photo of a blue fish, a blue or black background, it did not help bring out the true colour of the fish.

This is one of the best Moscow Blue I have seen and this strain has recently won the Aquarama 2007 Champion and 1st Runner up in the solid colour (moscow) class.

The colour is evenly spread out with its intense blue colour and strong body built. Once it fans out its tail, the fish deportment is absolutely perfect. It took me awhile to get the correct setting and get the fish on the camera. It is not an easy to capture a blue colour fish to show its true colour as it will always turn out green on picture.

Enjoy this beautiful fish.

Snakeskin - Yellow Lace (Swallow Genes)

2007-02-20T22:29:00.000-08:00

Another not so popular lace or snakeskin pattern fish is the Yellow Lace. Why is the yellow lace not popular? When you place a red lace and a yellow lace side by side, the red based fish will stand out better than the yellow based fish. The majority of us will naturally go for a more striking colour fish when you are keeping guppies. This is why the yellow lace is neglected. Nonetheless, this fish is a very useful and powerful fish if you know how to make full use of its potential.

Most of the yellow laces have a vertical bar across the body making it look like a medusa. This yellow lace has a very nice patterned body that makes me like this strain for its patterns.

As this fish is has shown the "torn" fins, these are traits of the swallow genes. A good show quality swallow fish must show at least 5 "extensions" from its tail and projecting an overall appealing image of the fish.

Snakeskin - Metal Red Lace

2007-02-16T23:07:00.000-08:00

This line of Metal Red Lace has a distinct metal with a nice snake skin with clear body patterns. The tail is broad and extra big. It is about 3 months old and the tail has not totally fanned out to a extra big triangle tail fish. Look out for the clear competition grade fish updates in the future months to come.

Snake Skin - German Red Lace Round Tail

2007-01-28T17:18:00.000-08:00

I personally like this cute short round tail guppy which is so active when the male gets older. This short tail type of male guppies have a less tendency of a hunch back unlike the delta tail counter parts.

It is also less prone to tail burn or fin rot as compared to the big broad fan tail guppies. It is a good choice for people who have little time to care for their guppies or newbies who are starting off the hobby to fancy guppy.

Wild Grey Full Red

2007-01-23T20:47:00.000-08:00

In my own view, this is one of the best wild grey reds. The dorsals are big and the tails are wide. The colour of the wild red is intense dark red with hardly any other mixture of other colours like green or yellow patches. Hardly you can find a nice wild red with intense redness in the fish which has red covering almost 85% - 95% of the fish. The body built of this strain is very broad which can make the fish stand out very beautifully among the rest.

Full Black - Line 2

2007-01-23T06:18:00.000-08:00

It is time to update some of my fishes. Another update on the solid colour of my Full Black guppy for everyone to enjoy

Blue Grass - Line 1

2006-09-03T20:51:00.000-07:00

After taking a long break in blogging and spending lots of time doing up my water management systems (which can be found in my other blogging site http://guppyroom.blogspot.com/), I am back with updates of my collection. This photos are take with the help of one of my friend Jack Ng who has amazing photography skills.

This is one of the hot favorites of some of the hobbyists - Blue grass. The tail is delta and the tail pattern of the grass is densely filled with fine spots making it a good piece of guppy!

Solid Colour - Albino Full Red

2006-02-01T22:40:00.000-08:00

My albino full reds. Needless to explain more, the body, the tail and the head is red in colour. The eyes too are red because they are albinos.

For reds, I keep 2 strains. 1 the albino full red and the golden full red. The golden full red will be featured in the next round of updates. There are 2 versions of golden full reds, the albino version and the grey eyes version so stay tuned.

Solid Colour - Full Black - Line 1

2006-02-01T22:32:00.000-08:00

The next series, I shall introduce some of my solid colour fishes. I will start with my full black and full red.

Firstly, the full black. This line I am showing is definitely jet black and it is due to the reflection of the camera flash that caused the tail to be a little bluish.

If you take a close look at the fins, it is 100% black to the tip of the head. I simply love the detla tail of the young fishes.

The full blacks featured in the 2 photos are from 2 different batches. I have 3 different lines of full blacks and close to blacks are the Moscow deep blues. I have another 2 lines of Moscow blues which I will feature them in the later stage.

Metal Red Lace - Delta tail

2006-01-18T00:58:00.000-08:00

This is metal red lace Delta tail. It has a very thick dorsal and a triangular tail. the body shape of the fish is also very "thick". Makes the fish look solid! These are photos of 2 different fishes of different generations.

My Creation - Platinum Yellow Lace

2006-01-18T00:19:00.000-08:00

This is one of my creation of Platinum Yellow lace. The first picture is one of the them when young. The second one is when they are grown up. The source used for crossing is definitely not a LFS genes as you can see from the development. It is made in Taiwan and assembled in Singapore! So it is a Singapore product.

I simply love the tail pattern. I am working more on the body pattern to refine them to fine snakeskin body. Most of them have stable regular patterns and tails already. Wait for my future development!

Metal Red Lace - Swallow genes

2006-01-17T23:27:00.000-08:00

This is my Metal Red Lace - Line 3. It is a swallow gene fish.

What is swallow genes? Swallow genes means the tail or fins has some of the "extensions" perturding outwards.

Can swallow genes be found in regular males? Yes. In a swallow genes batch of fries, there will be some males and females that look perfectly normal like the regular delta fishes. But the genes are in them and the next generation will still have swallow genes and some fishes will still show the trait of the genes physically.

Can swallow genes be "lost"? Yes. Thru selective breeding, and by choosing the non-swallow trait male
and the non-swallow trait female, the genes can be lost thru generations.

Can swallow male breed? It depends on where the swallow is. If the swallow male has long penducle, it will not be breedable male. If it has a regular penducle, it is breedable like all other male fishes.

German Red Lace - Line 4

2006-01-17T23:07:00.000-08:00

I have about 6 lines of GRLs. This is a remarkable German Red Lace line that is the 1st runner up (snake skin - Class 4) in the 2005 National Guppy Competition. One of the rare pieces that have soild fine laces fully covered without "eyes" on the body or tail.

Albino Red Lace - Oh My Baby !!!!

2006-01-17T22:09:00.000-08:00

This is one of my most precious and desired strain. I have been preserving it for about 6 generations. The rare albino metal red lace. The metal head is so strong that it becomes a purple head when it is albino. The delta is so big too! What more can I say about it? The picture tells you all.