hi everyone hey I just want to share something with you folks that maybe the
most observant of the fish raisers out there will have noticed along with me
and it's that besides just the obvious differences such as color between
different strains of guppies whenever you breed different strains of guppies
you're also passing on different behavioral aspects for one thing if you
look at these Guppies these males in this 50 gallon tub you'll notice that my
my golden bodied yellowish red strain my strain called the Neon Micariff they
mostly interact with themselves if you look at any of them sparring now try to
grab some shots of them or the way they chase each other around you notice that
they pretty much are doing it just to each other like here's some right there
and I also have in here some Blue Eagle males and here on the far side of the
tub you see two males sparring with each other and they're not really mixing it
up with the other strains these fish have been all together in this tub for
several months now and that's what I observed of course these different
strains of Guppies will crossbreed readily so there's no problem you know
with males and females interacting like that the courtship and breeding but when
given a choice and you have different strains to themselves and a tub the
tendency is for them to basically stick to their own kind like here there's
there's two of the neon not the neon blue with the Blue Eagle males
they were sparring with each other and here again or the Neon Micariff more
than just a coincidence I've observed these males in this tub for you know at
least a couple of months and the behavior is very predictable very
consistent talk about birds of a feather flocking together with regard to the
females I can also point out some differences as well so here in an
identical tub setup is my femaleNeon Micariff and blue eagles and when
these females were three months old the two strains were basically at the same
size and as the months rolled on the female Neon Micariffs outpaced the blue
Eagles by a wide margin here you can see the relative sizes between the two
strains Neon Micariff and it's hard to see the blue eagles but perhaps you can
see them against the bright green background there's one in the center of
the screen now and not only are they longer there are a lot more wide bodied
or robust over the last 10 years of working with Micariffs I've always
known the strain to be a fast-growing large and robust strain and that's one
of the things that drew me to them and just like the males they tend to flock
or school more by themselves than with the other strain pretty much to the
exclusion I would say it's subtle and you really need to observe them and
perhaps the the difference is more pronounced in a tub like this than you
know very wide then they would be in a glass aquarium where you know a lot of
the movement of a fish in a glass of quorum is basically up and down swimming
with the nose against the glass but in a tub like this it's almost like you know
a lot of horizontal movement something that's perhaps more natural you see the
fish you know basically about maybe like soccer players on a
grassy field so no I don't wanna make a big deal of this it's not you know it
doesn't affect anything but just something to note and if anyone else
raises you know different strains and have a tub like this you might have
noticed something like this and thought hey what's going on here but just one of
those things I just thought is a curiosity worth mentioning okay thank
you for watching