I'm pedalling backwards around a curve.

Here I am charmed with the eyespot, and a knowledgable breeder of Fancy Guppies commented that the eye spot is really difficult to get rid of!!  Hahaha!

So much for jumping in a subject knowing nothing about it.   Like moving to the tropics and all of a sudden trying to snow ski with the best of them.

Ah, well.  There's a discussion about "What is a Fancy Guppy?", and someone said, a big tail.  I'll stick with that!!  I'm sticking with the eye spot.  Tails:  red, blue, yellow, caliope(multicolors).  Eye spots: white eye, red eye, double eye.

Some that I like--

Blue ( mostly, anyway)

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Red

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Yellow

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Caliope

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Caliope, I like Caliope.

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Double Eye

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I think my photos will improve, I took some yesterday before I fed the little monsters.  They stay on the surface, which is what's needed in that healthy green water which is full of algae and microscopic thingies that they can eat.  I wonder what they see?

Lunch!

OK, all for now, thanks for stopping by!  Have enough, and a great day!

What kind of guppies are these??

Dec 24th

I'm getting confused, and probably posting repeat photos, and new photos of fish that I've already posted, owell!! Please bear with me, and maybe even let me know about the repeats. I'm not printing these photos and making a decent filing system. "soon come"

And Season's Greetings, I'll 'go beach' tomorrow. I feel sorry for the snow and cold folks. I left that a long time ago.

Shotgun breeding program

I wonder how many fishies are in there? I control the water hyacinths to stay that size of a clump, and the upside down milk crate is so they can have room to come and go from.

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In the next, older post, the first photo is a mama gup with a spot. I'll put her in her own tub, for six months or more, and put all the babies in another tub. Then I'll choose from the seventy thousand babies a few boys to go back in with Mama. Hmm, maybe I should have a boy's and a girl's tubs. This could get complicated!

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None of this one mama and one papa for me! hahaha!

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Thanks for visiting.

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late nite fish, won't be online all day tomorrow

 

A crush of guppies.  I think that's a female with a spot!  Upper left.  A bit dark, this group of photos.  I was able to limit myelf to 60 shots, unnlike last time, 320 image to go through!  I am so happy with digital, but it is SO time consuming!

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Such a tail!  His spots are different, one and two.

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I would like to know why some tails are bright, and some not.

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And one of the electric orange/yellow fishes.

Monday, Monday

I might start analyzing now. The eye is too small, and not circled by white. Gorgeous tail!!!
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Good baby Red Eye. I believe their tails grow and grow as they age. I don't know how long guppies live. Three years? More?

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This boy is so electric orange! The photo doesn't show how bright he is!

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Dive, dive, dive! These guys dislike my camera, and they can see it, I'm sure. That huge eye looking at them, the lense.

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Plenty of babies!! I put a bowl in the pool, and a plate upside down on it, hoping to get better photos, but the old males refused to swim in!

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Another diver. Great tail, good eyespot.

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Same fish, I thimmk. I don't know if the tail, caudal fin, is clear or has been nipped-- shredded, more like it.

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The huge white thing is a tie-wrap that I was trying to use both a an attractor for the fish, and something for my camera to grab for focusing.

Wheee! all for now. Have enough for yourself today, and a little extra to share!

Aieee! More blurry photos!

I see this fellow often, he swims in a spastic shimmy, having to drag that long tail behind.  I find it amazing that one can be recognized in the squirming mob of hundreds wanting to be fed.

OK, my last efforts at photos didn't come out at all, much more blurry than these, if you can imagine! 

I did get a second pool, for guppy sorting, but then I got some shrimp and tiny fishes from a mudhole that was drying up.  They must be terribly active in that pool, because the silt from the rescue operation is completely stirred up.  I see an occaional shrimp swim by, but nothing else.  The first critters I put in were just a few of the little shrimp, about one or two centimeters long, less than an inch, and the silt settled, and I could see the bottom of the pool. 

Not now!  the second addition was about a shovelfull of the silt, and maybe fifteen fish, and fifty shrimps.  I had quite a time getting them out of that shallow ditch! 

But then, oh well, I hope the fish that I rescued are doing well.  No idea what they are, they sit on the bottom, not free swimmers.  The mudhole is totally dried now.  This is a natural thing here on St. Croix, the seasons are dry/wet.  So I guess the last thing these fellows do is leave eggs for the next rainy season.  Maybe they won't live very long where they are, in my pool.

I'll get the water the same as the guppy water, I believe the pH is very different, needs testing, then I'll start sifting guppies.

OK, later!  I'm making a definite effort to post every day, but I'm running out of photos right now, ah.