A guide to enders/guppies?

[algarciajr]

Here is a picture of my adult Class N top bar snake chested Endlers that I bought from a member here on the box.

[troy tucker]

Cool fish. As to your question about culling out fry. I don't cull angel fish by color but more on shape. If it has bad deformity it has to go. I feed them to the bigger fish. I'm sure you can see shape by now and as the colors come in just take out any thing thats not right.
you have a nice pure strain...

[troy tucker]

Snake chest! Cool! Do you have documentation on them?

[R_sustaita]

Documentation as like on dogs you have the akc papers? bloodline?

[mnemenoi]

Usually its just a known collection point and possibly the original collector and year. It helps in establishing their geographic regions and population growth/decline in susequent returns. Most livebearer fanatics maintain meticulous records concerning their lineages, especially with a few very big and emberrasing errors in years past. Look into the San Marcos Gambusia for an example. With a vast majority of Central American livebearers/Goodeids critically endangered or completely exctinct in the wild it is very important to keep clear records for the possibility of eventually reintroducing the species back into the wild. I assume Endler's are kept by many of the same breeders and the habit transferred onto them as a result.

[R_sustaita]

oh ok, thank you.

[troy tucker]

Documentation is all of that. The where, when, and what it looks like. Also as the grade or class of fish. A N class is all pure strain with documentation. A P class can appear to be pure but origine cannot be varified. A K class is all mixed.
So R yes like an AKC. Dog. You can look up that blood line.
Check out Sorry can't make a link. ( The Endler shop ) it was close to the top of a google look.