Endler's Guppy

Poecilia sp. Endler

Endler's guppies are brightly coloured with patches of blue, orange, green and other tones in vibrant shades. Compared with regular guppies the male is much smaller but his colours have a greater vibrancy.

Having studied the original specimens in detail Dr. Endler believes their has been a great deal of hybridization with normal guppies to create the Endler's guppies available today. He notes that a black finned color morph making up 20% of the wild group is not represented at all in modern aquaculture.

Selective breeding has created many colour patterns within captive stock. Expect snakeskin, tuxedo and other familiar variations.

Habitat

This colourful livebearer may be extinct in the wild due to the destruction of it's habitat. A waste disposal facility has polluted the original collection site but Dr. Endler believes a second site may possibly still exist but urbanization has changed the landscape to the point that it may already be to late.

Family - Poeciliidae - species yet to be classified

Size - Male 2cm Female 3-4cm

Fish Origin - Laguna de Patos in Venezuela, South America.

Water - Keep pH around 7 - 8 with medium to very hard water

Temperature - Was found to be 27°C In the wild

Feeding - Feed as for regular guppies with flake and live foods

Sexing - Male displays gonopodium and females generally larger & duller

Breeding - Endler's Guppies are livebearers with 23 day pregnancy

Aquarium - Avoid keeping with regular guppies to keep the strain pure.

Endler's Guppy Reproduction

Breeding follows the same pattern as other livebearers but the parents are perhaps more likely to eat their fry. The gestation period is only 23 days but the number of fry is usually less than that of a common guppy.

Fry mature rapidly with males fully coloured at the end of their third week. Females can begin reproducing at two months with the number of fry increasing as the fish grows in size.

Planted Endler's Guppy Aquariums

These videos show the behaviors displayed by healthy Endler's guppies
when kept as a colony in a single species aquarium.

Double Sword Endler's Guppies

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