tank#1

Hi,

at the Vienna European Master Championship I got this year a very rare and nice topswords strain.

It was created by Dr. W. Schuster. he introduced Bronce and Albino to his Snakeskin Topsword Strain and worked out these "Blackheaded Trait" you can see at the pics.

I got 2 pairs of these strain.
1,1 = grey
1,0 = golden (aka bronce)
0,1 = creme which means doubl. recessive gold&blond (aka. bronce&gold or tiger&gold)

In tank#1 living also some Shrimps, a few Ramshornsnails (pink and red) and Hygrophila polysperma *rosanervis* is crowding at the surface, maybe it will get a pot in future.

So now have a look:

cheers tobi

racks and rockets

Hej folks,

in January I moved into a new flat and built a second new rack of wood by myself.Now I have to manage one aluminium rack with 16 tanks about 25L (ca. 7 gallons) and one wooden rack with 16 tanks about 54L (ca. 14 gallons).
In the last month I decided to quit the most of my testcrossings and cover pattern projects for intensifiying my concentration about my lovely topswords.
Now I still raise up my Vienna Emerald Like AOC Strain, these nice Metarika, awful amazing Austrian Snakeskin Topswords and a few rare Basecolors and maybe one or two Wildtypes.
What excatly you will find out in the following weeks :)

Here is my new rack  in my
livingroom:

cheers tobi

Lazuli & other Baits 2.0

well round 2 with Lazuli & other baits

Wildguppy Aripo River Hybrids (looking like Lazuli!!!)

Wildguppy Aripo River Hybrids (looking like Lazuli!!!) Mother was a Topsswordfemale.

Wildguppy Aripo River Hybrids (looking like Lazuli!!!) The  red shorttail is also a Ariporiver Hybrid, please compare with a real Lazuli below!

Wildguppy Aripo River Hybrids (looking like Lazuli!!!)

One of my AOC (Vienna Emerald Like) Topsswords and one which I got from Katja Tyka (the red one)

my AOC (Vienna Emerald Like) Topssword born around X-Mas

Lazuli Red Shorttail with Asian Blue Cheat, and his red Brother, you can see below

Lazuli Red Shorttail I got from Robert Gall, please compare it with the Aripo River Hybrid!
Lazuli  has got a oval shaped pattern, the Aripos shows more a Blue Line, also te Lazuli is stonger Blue  like Japan Blue. Aripo Blue disappaer when the fish moves in shade!

Lazuli and some other Baits

Hej,
ooups, it is 2013...it is long tme ago, I updated this blog. But now I will blow up some pics (maybe also your mind) and hope everything is fine out there :)

Poecila obscura *typuslocation*

Poecila obscura *typuslocation*

Magenta Topsword

Blond Neon Topssword (modified Doubesword!)

I mate this Neon Topssword with one of my Topssword females, here you can see  the F1 offspring...

Neon...with Doublesword Genetics

outcross with some feederfish I found in petshop month ago

X Moscow -redtail and Y Lazuli  !!! These guys can turn nearly black like moscow blues...but there s still a Lazuli Shining at their gill cover.

Photosetting today, I tried my Fujifinepix not my Canon...

to get the males closer...I used an attractive bait  :) and it worked well

... crisscross and plumbum

Hi folks, somebody asked me, what the hell I am doing. Yes I am still reticulated :) So I took some pics of my fish & results :

Metarika (Y-Linked) and Mosaic (X-Linked) in combination.

petshopboy: light blue topsword "wingei" with black dorsal fin! Gorgeous trait to combine it with my topswords! I will cross it into one of my line, to introduce this trait!

Also found in petshop...a very nice fancystrain..with yello dorsal fin and hyalin caudal fin. Big black markings...similar to Santa Maria - but different! Will take a cross to my topsswords, too.

Done by myself: Redchest Magenta Shortail...awefull red!

Got 15 males of a batch from an Metalhead Snakeskin Spadetail from Marcel. If they are afraid they looks like copper...if in sunny mood...it turns to plumbum. Cannot say what it is...or what to do with these guys. cheers tobi

Hi, sometimes I have to seperate single females, breeding pairs or small litters of my fish. For this I am using such 4 Litre Boxes, which are placed in my little rack you can see at the pictures. I installed such LED -lights to let the water-fern and mooses grow/survive. And below the rack I attached some rolls to make it movable. So have a look now:

cheers tobi

Hi, last weekend I visited a young guppy-breeding newcomer. Rocco (also known as "corthax") from Dresden. We talked a lot and visited the IGMX European Masters Competition...I also took a few pics in his Guppyroom:

virgins of Roundtail Moscow Lace females

Hybrids between Tobago Speyside Wildtype Guppys and Snakeskin Topsword females

Hybrids between Tobago Speyside Wildtype Guppys and Snakeskin Topsword females

the gorgeous snakeskin Topsword Strain from Austria...which where developed out of Alan Charltons Stock!

Fine Topsswords - I was really happy to see such beautiful fish there!

Heterandria formosa male

Heterandria formosa female (the golden mutation)

the masterbreeder himself

Breedingtank of the Original Tobago Speyside Wildtype Reticulata I would like to say: "Thank you Rocco for your hospitality and the tastefull saxonian beer! Also for the nice discussion about guppys/fish, guppy-genetics and botany" cheers tobi