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There is a new guppy site devoted to snakeskins: http://www.guppylace.info I will be participating in some experiments to discover the nature of lace genetics and snakesking genetics in general. You are invited to come and join and share in the love of snakeskin guppies. Philip |
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Stefano Bressan travelled from his home in Italy with a friend to attend an international guppy show in Vienna. While he was there he enjoyed the hospitality of an old guppy master, Erwin Renner. Read about his account of Erwin Renner's fish room. It is interesting to see how modest and simple the fish room is. It speaks volumes for the artistry of this old guppy master, best known for his perfection of the Vienna Emerald Green guppy. Thanks Stefano for taking us on this trip! |
New Guppy Gene Discovery!
The original Turquoise guppy. Picture courtesy Junichi Ito This is a gene first discovered by the Japanese breeder Masanori Suzuki in 2003. He has been working with it, producing a beautiful turquoise green solid colored guppy that you will see in the new Color Bank strain entry. My deep gratitude to Junichi Ito for informing me of this stunning new guppy strain and supplying me with the pictures of it. Read his comments about the probably close relative to this strain in the Color Bank article. I am very grateful to have Guppy Designer. The hard work I have put into it has meant that I have forged excellent reliances with prominent breeders in places like Japan, Germany, the U.S. and Thailand to name of few. They have helped me make the Color Bank the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to the world's guppy strains and genes. I thank you all heartily. Take a look at the Solid Turquoise strain that was made out of the original discovery. Here is the link to the new Color Bank entry: http://guppydesigner.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=838&Itemid=229 |
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One of my albino platinum magentas. I guess this is as close as it gets to a signature image of a magenta. There is a bit of platinum white in the body, but the magenta color is really strong. |
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Nana is Guppy Designer's newest member, and she came bearing gifts. What you see in the picture is the parents of an experiment she tried, crossing a Red Lace Snakeskin male (foreground) with a Full Red female (background). Like all carefully documented crosses, this one produced more surprises than answers. But that is the fun in it, is it not? I have put her account and my commentary in the Design Lab. See "Red Lace Snakeskin X Full Red" in the Design Lab series. It is an interesting experiment and I may have messed up the analysis, so I am looking forward to your comments on the Guppy Designer forum. |
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Moscow Filigran Doublesword Hans Peter Neuse (a.k.a. hapeen) from Germany is a well respected guppy judge and creative breeder. This is his latest creation, a "Moscow Filigran Doublesword." (Another name for the strain might be metal head snakeskin doublesword.) It is the first of its kind in the world as far as I know. Congratulations hapeen! I am pleased that hapeen has agreed to comment on and edit my new book. He brings his long and deep knowledge of guppy breeding to the task and a European perspective, being from Germany. |
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Wild Rio Leao Guppy For the past couple of months I have had wild guppies swimming around in my tanks. It took seven years to actually find room for them, and I am wondering why it took so long. Right now I have a couple of IFGA Half-Black Yellows in with them. The reason I got the wild guppies is because I re-read and commented on the extensive scientific literature about wild guppies for the second part of my new book. I decided to explore some of the ideas I found in the literature. It's amazing what you learn by writing about a subject, which is a practice I heartily recommend to the serious guppy breeder who really wants to penetrate into the complexities of guppy genetics. But what really surprised me were the connections to be made when you closely read the literature and link the knowledge there with what you can observe swimming in your tanks. Continued: Guppy Complexity |
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The picture of siblings, one with the magenta gene and the other without, taken by my pal José René, was responsible for finally revealing the mystery of the magenta gene. What a wonderful tool the Guppy Designer forum has proven to be for collaborative research. Thanks to José René for being so dedicated to unravelling guppy color mysteries. I have rewritten the Magenta General Information entry in the Notes section. You will be surprised what I found once I unlocked the secrets to the magenta gene. It turns the gene into a kind of genetic paint brush, allowing you to create new color strains deliberately. I used this approach on the Flamenco Dancer entry. I give the formula for creating your own Flamenco Dancer. The recipe does require the magenta gene of course. Check it out. I have also been revising all the entries in the Color Bank with the magenta gene. Whew! |
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The new camera lens arrived today. It is an Olympus F2 macro. I have not got it nailed down yet, but here is the first picture of my guppies. The blond version of my Glass Belly Pandas popped out of the strain unexpected but not unwelcome. Notice you can see the female's fry balled up in her transparent belly. The surprise is the yellow metallic color on the body. I did not see this in the grey version, which has black where the yellow metallic color occurs. It must be a Moscow gene. Damn. Another gene I will have to explore. Where is the room? Where is the time? I will be adding this phenotype to the Color Bank where I will comment on it further. I have a backlog of about fifteen strains to add to the Color Bank for the second edition coming out early in the spring. |
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