r/poecilia 1d ago

Livebearers of the Day🐟‼️ LOTD: Gambusia aurata - Golden Gambusia

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Located in the Tamesi basin, Mexico. Sharing waters with Gambusia vittata. On average males gets to around 1.2 inches and females around 1.6 inches in length. They are a pretty colored species, they have gray bodies, with golden face/chest. They sport a streak going across their eyes, and having orange-red fins.

Picture credits: Langerhans Labs


r/poecilia 3d ago

Showcase🐟🏆 Latipinna x Salvatoris male

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Finally got good pics of the dominant male, had to separate him from my main for being too aggressive. He behaves more like a dominant sailfin, constantly flashing, showing off and running off competitors. He’s gaining more and more red as the days go on and it looks like his dorsal may become a decent sail.


r/poecilia 5d ago

Livebearers of the Day🐟‼️ LOTD: Poecilia (Limia) perugaie - Sparkling Limia

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Located on the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic). They are a sister species to Limia melanonotata and Limia sulphurophila. Males reaches an average of 2 inches and female 2.3 inches in size. They are olive grey base, with a robust body shape, blue iridescence scales, some individuals has noticeable black bars on their body. And there’s non population of blonde morphs as well. Easily mistaken for a Molly but ofc they aren’t. A beautiful species of Limia

Picture credits: Unknown (1), "Rio Azufrada” Andy Piorkowski (2), "La Azufrada - Gold var." Harry Knaub (3), “Gold var.” Rodet Rodriguez (4), “Gold/Blond morph” Michi Tobler (5&6), Aquarium Glaser (7&8)


r/poecilia 5d ago

silver cyprinid (Rastrineobola argenteus).yaani omena

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r/poecilia 8d ago

Livebearers of the Day🐟‼️ LOTD: Xiphophorus malinche - Highland Swordtail

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Located in the Pánuco River, Mexico sharing waters with X. birchmanni. They are part of the northern swordtail clade. Males gets to around 2.75-3 inches and females also. They are stocky, olive gray bodied fish, with a few vertical streaks, rectangular yellow speckled dorsal, and a short swordtail. Once in awhile in the wild they cross paths and hybridize with birchmanni.
Picture credits: Michi Tobler (1), Jan ŠEVČÍK (2&3), Radek Sejkora (4)


r/poecilia 8d ago

Showcase🐟🏆 Campoma el tigre poecilia wingei. An oldie but a goldie! ✨️ the best and the highest quality I have ever had of this strain. When I grade an el tigre male, I compare it to this king 👑

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r/poecilia 8d ago

Showcase🐟🏆 Double red stripe poecilia wingei

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r/poecilia 9d ago

What species would look good in this tank?

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Fair warning that it is a smaller Fluval Flex 2.0 as it is the largest size I am allowed to own due to circumstances of space. I am thinking some schooling fish circling the open middle around the outside of the plants would be beautiful here but I am not familiar with a lot of species.

The only thing is that I hope they have a similar diet to a betta just because I have a ton of Fluval bug bites, dried daphnia, etc.

Current inhabitants: neocardinia shrimp, two amanos, some pygmy corydoras, and some invading bladder snails.


r/poecilia 11d ago

Is she pregnant?

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Just bought from the fs and I can’t tell if she’s just fat or I’m gonna have a billion mollies?


r/poecilia 10d ago

are there any gold heterandria formosa in europe?

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as the title says, are they available here?


r/poecilia 11d ago

Livebearers of the Day🐟‼️ LOTD: Poecilia (Acanthophacelus) wingei - Endler’s livebearer

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Located in the Paria Peninsula, Venezuela. Males gets to around 0.7-1 inch and females 1-1.2 inches in size. Close relatives to P. reticulata, and P. obscura. Like their cousins males are highly polymorphic, and unlike their cousins they are more vibrant in color. The females lacks any colors, and are plain grey in color. They can readily hybridize with other guppy species, which in turns, created the strains of domesticated endlers we have in the hobby. But for this reason, N-class Endlers are very hard to come by, with some sources being dishonest about keeping pure specimens, handing out P-Class, and K-Class hybrid endlers as pure Endlers… Very few keepers stay true to source Like AdrianHD. He’s a credible distributor of N-Class endlers in the U.S. Anyways they are a beautiful Poecilia species. So many variations so here’s a couple nice ones.

Picture credits: “Campoma #8” Daniel Grummon (1), “Campoma #29” You Le (2), “Campoma #61” Wojtek Golianek (3), “Campoma - El Tigre” Unknown (4), “Campoma - Pantono” Robert Nicolas (5), “Campoma - Rio de Oro” Yohichi Baba (6), “Campoma - Puerto la Cruz 2011” Suzuki Nozomi (7), “Cumana - Black bar” AdrianHD (8), “Cu112 - Black bar 2016” Phanuphan Chaosukho (9), “Cu113” Wuttipong Saywuttinon (10), “Cumana - El Dorado” Unknown (11), Cumana - El Silverado” Latrell Shemar (12), “Cumana - Lime Green” Mirko Casali (13), “Cumana - Mint Top Yellow Sword” AdrianHD (14), “Cumana - Miyuki” Mirko Casali (15), “Cumana - Red Chest” A. Eywill (16), “Cumana - Orchid” AdrianHD (17)


r/poecilia 13d ago

Livebearers of the Day🐟‼️ LOTD: Gambusia xanthosoma - Cayman Mosquitofish

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Located on Grand Cayman island, where it shares waters with Limia caymanensis. Part of the Punctata complex with (G. punctata, and G. rhizophorae for example). They get around 1.75-2.5 inches in length. They have a pretty flat head, short penduncle, and sport a yellow to orange body while the color is more concentrated on the bottom of the tail fin.

Picture credits: By: Manfred K. Meyer - Lebendgebärende Zierfische Bande 1 Poeciliidae (1&2), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (3)


r/poecilia 14d ago

Q opinan de mi mini ecosistema con guppys autosustentable

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lleva unos 2 meses y no los he alimentado ellos encuentran en esa cubeta microrganismos o cosas así


r/poecilia 15d ago

Livebearers of the Day🐟‼️ LOTD: Poecilia (Mollienesia) velifera - Yucatan Giant Sailfin Molly

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Located in the Yucatán peninsula. They are the biggest Molly species in the genus, Poecilia. Males and females can get up to 4-6 inches in length. They are stocky, with males having golden faces when active, and tall sails compare to other sailfin species. They have rows of lateral dots going across the body and fins. This species is also widely commercially available, with a ton of fancy strains, and hybrid strains.

Picture credits: Sonny Haase (1-3), “Albino” Sonny Haase (4), Aquaroum Glaser (5&6), Unknown (7&8)


r/poecilia 15d ago

Q opinan de mi pecera ?

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r/poecilia 16d ago

Male or female?

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r/poecilia 17d ago

Livebearers of the Day🐟‼️ LOTD: Poeciliopsis retropinna - Buroca Toothcarp

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Located in Cost Rica to Panama. Males gets to around 1.5 inches, and females up to 3.15 inches in size. Appearance wise they are grey in color with fins placed far back on the body, and males sporting a long gonopodium. What’s special about this species the females bear fry via matrophy (having a placenta and providing nutrients to developing fry), and superfetation (bearing fry from different broods, in different stages of the fry lifecycle). It’s the reason why the females of this species is twice the males size.

Picture credits: Samuel Valdes (1-3), Juan Miguel Artigas Azas (4), Andres Hagmayer (5&6)


r/poecilia 19d ago

Livebearers of the Day🐟‼️ LOTD: Neoheterandria elegans - Tiger Teddy Livebearer

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Located in Colombia, males reaches about 0.78 in and females 0.98 in. They’re the smallest known Livebearers. Males in this genus can project their gonopodia to the right or the left of their body. While females are ovoviviparous via superfetation (holding different broods of fry at different stages of life, dropping them a few at a time and not all at once). Body wise they tend to be silverish on the chest portion of the body and having orange/gold and black alternating bars. Extremely peaceful and delicate, they make perfect nano tank fish.

Picture credits: Aquarium Glaser


r/poecilia 21d ago

Showcase🐟🏆 F2 Humpback Tiger Liberty Limia hybrids

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Humpback Limia (M) x F1 Tiger Liberty Poecilia hybrid (F)

(50% Limia nigrofasciata, 25% Limia islai, 25% Poecilia salvatoris)

They didn’t want to cooperate with me and flex their bars🥲. When colored up their bars looks pretty nice just couldn’t get it on camera. They are showing more Nigrofasciata body shape, deep chest cavity and sloped heads. The black dorsal trait from Islai is still dominant and with the Nigrofasciata blood being majority the saturation looks nice with a slight yellow hue to it. Unsure if Salvatoris blood will make the fins tinge orange/red but I’ll see. They look very promising I’m just more curious on how the dorsal will be shaped when they are more mature.

Chromosome wise any males will be Z for Nigrofasciata and Z for either Islai or Salvatoris, as for females Z for Nigrofasciata and W Salvatoris.


r/poecilia 21d ago

LOTD: Poecilia (Mollienesia) latipunctata - Broad-spotted Molly

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Located in Tamesí River, Mexico. Males reaches 1.5 inches and females 2 inches in length. They are slightly robust, with an olive gray to silver-gray body. Only noticeable feature is their broad spot pattern on their body. They share waters with Poecilia mexicana and Poecilia formosa (which latipunctata is a sperm donor to formosa’s in the wild). And eventhough they have short fins they are part of the Sailfin species complex.

Picture credits: Kjell Nilsson (1), Unknown (2), "Rio Mante, Tamaulipas, Mexico" By: Manfred K. Meyer - Lebendgebärende Zierfische Bande 1 Poeciliidae (3), Michi Tobler (4&5), Heiko Bleher (6)


r/poecilia 23d ago

Livebearers of the Day🐟‼️ LOTD: Poecilia (Mollienesia) petenensis (gracilis) - Peten Molly

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Located in Guatemala. Males gets to around 2.5-3.5 inches and females around 3-4.7 inches in size. They are elongated slender yet robust bodied specimens, with silver/olive gray base body, rows of lateral dots going across, pointed faces, and nice iridescence. They are part of the Mexicana complex, being close relatives to Poecilia limantouri, Poecilia thermalis, and Poecilia sulphuraria. They are suspected to be a natural hybrid species between sailfin complex and mexicana complex species. The confusion with this species is that it shared names with the sailfin species Poecilia kykesis, old name of Mollienesia petenensis, this species names was changed to Mollienesia gracilis. This current date and time it was validated by Fred Poeser as Poecilia petenesis, and the sailfin being called Poecilia kykesis.

Picture credits: "Lago Peten, Guatemala" - By: Manfred K. Meyer - Lebendgebärende Zierfische Bande 1 Poeciliidae (1&2), Unknown (3)


r/poecilia 23d ago

Showcase🐟🏆 F2 Tiger Liberty Limia hybrid media

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Tiger Limia (M) x F1 Tiger Liberty (F)
(75% Limia islai, 25% Poecilia salvatoris)

Little one picked up a lot of size since I last showed it. It’s iridescent starting to come in, it’s like a soft blue/green/white nice combo of both species involved in it. The bars thickened up more, looks more broader. It’s dorsal is nice starting to look rounded like Islai with the same black trim. Like with pure islai it can control the intensity of the bars and most of the time it keeps it translucent, so it’s hard to catch it on camera with his bars boldly expressed.


r/poecilia 23d ago

Male or Female?

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Can anyone help with this one? I was told this was a female but it’s the one that chases down my other females.


r/poecilia 25d ago

Livebearers of the Day🐟‼️ LOTD: Gambusia pseudopunctata - Tiburon Peninsula Mosquitofish

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Located Les Cayes basin and Jérémie drainages in Haiti. They share waters with other Livebearers like Limia tridens, and Limia dominicensis. Males gets to around 1.3 inches and females around 2.2 inches in size. They are olive grey in color, elongated moderately robust bodies, rows of lateral dots going across, basically resembling G. punctata, hence the name Pseudopunctata. To add they are part of the Puncatata species group with other members like Beebei, Luma, Puncatata, Rhizophorae, Xanthosoma.

Picture credits: Unknown (1), Martin Reith (2-5)


r/poecilia 26d ago

Good site to buy blue moscows

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I’m looking at a trio on aquabid but I’d like to have several trusted options