Fish: [tropical fish club] Re: Yellow guppy

you can keep males with no female and they be fine. I find the female makes them happier and more active though some males even gain more color with a female. If you don't want the babies just keep them in the tank and most of them will get eaten. You may have one lucky surviver once in a while though but most likely not.

--- In tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com, "William M" <dreammaker2623@...> wrote:
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> My guess is that it is a mutation (guppies are full of mutations and that is why there are so many different color and fin variations or mutations) Breeders will take a fish that has traits that are good and breed them together with fish of the opposite sex to hopefully get the young to have this/these trait/s. But you must also remember that bad traits will be passed on too.
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> --- In tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com, "DonnaK" <donnalynneking@> wrote:
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> > Great question, to bad I don't have an answer for you. I am going to guess Maybe its a sign of a healthy ready to breed guppy? Donna
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> > --- In tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com, "suemfrancis" <peterelectrician@> wrote:
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> > > Hi
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> > > Could anyone answer this query. I had two male bright yellow guppies (Bright yellow tale bottom half of body yellow and rest silver), I lost one and bought a replacement. This fish had a black on the top of its head but the original one had no sign of any black on the head.
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> > > When I queried this with the fish shop, I was told that these yellow guppies all get black heads in time. When I looked in another shop many of their guppies had black heads when six months earlier they didnt. Would this just be the breeding rather than the age of the guppy. Three months down the line I lost this black headed guppy but still have the original one minus the black head - I was wondering if the black head was just its colouration and had no bearing on his age?
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> > > Also do others successfully keep male guppies with no female?
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> > > Thank you
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> > > Sue Francis
> > > Surrey, England
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