Alright... The mothers of these fry are both gold-bodied, with faint yellow washes in their tails. The father is most likely this male: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/39431300/
He's a second or third gen. Endler's cross-in, with a double sword and various Endler-spots all over. If the other male, a half-red, had anything to do with these babies, it hasn't been apparent.
Initially, there were about six deformed fry. As I've mentioned before, these deformities manifest as a sharply up-bent spine. They swim, eat, and stand up for themselves like normal fish. I have since sequestered the most dramatic of the three of them in a five-gallon tank. At least one of the remaining two or three has grown out of the kink, now exhibiting a really attractive elongated body, just behind the vent. He's turned out to be quite a beauty... gold-bodied with red jellybeans on his sides, and these ghostly white fins. Once he gets a little bigger, I'll have to take pictures.
The first colors any of them show seem to be the red jellybeans. That color trait is apparently dramatically dominant. Easily 1/3 of the fry seem to show them already. They look fantastic on the gold-bodied fish... a mixture I've never seen before.
As far as colors go, I'm seeing a lot of yellow caudals, and second would be a mixture of red and yellow. The first to show color and to date the most colorful is a grey-bodied male with fascinating fins.. they are yellow closest to the base, with a clearly defined red following, and a clear black outline all the way around. This is repeated in the dorsal.
I've also got a really pretty female, showing a pink-to-blue-to-yellow strong coloration in her tail... and quite a few with black speckles showing up, which surprised me.. makes me wonder if they were from a previous father in the pet store.
I was disappointed when I first got these two adult females, until I realized how amazingly beautiful they are in comparison to the grey-bodied fish. They've grown massive, quite the "super" guppies I keep hearing about. I've been feeding that tank four or five times a day, in small amounts. Frozen thawed bloodworms once or twice a week.
Pictures coming soon, once I'm not bogged down with studying. I'm proud of these little babies. :)
And best of all, not a single guppy in either tank has shown the slightest trace of illness or unhappiness since I moved them into the 30-gallon! As some of you know, I ran the gauntlet with almost ever disease and tank pest possible. It's sort of amazing to watch 30-some guppies swarm to the front of the tank when I come near it, closely followed by the strangest pleco I've ever known, who comes mooching up the side and "begs" for tubifex worms by poking his head out of the water, sometimes even taking a clump of them from the middle of the surface. This isn't starvation talking, either, because he's fed about three times a day. He's huge. I've started sticking an algea wafer in his mouth instead, which he seems almost as happy with. I'll be trying blanched zucchini and all of those other odd ones sometime soon, I'm sure.
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