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Wild mollies

Started by Guest_soulpride_* , Apr 05 2012 08:17 PM

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#1 Guest_soulpride_*

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Posted 05 April 2012 - 08:17 PM

Is there really a wild orange face green mollies out there? Saw some for sale. Just wondering if there are or is it hybrid

#2 Guest_gzeiger_*

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Posted 11 April 2012 - 04:21 PM

Advertised as wild caught? It shouldn't be hard to get such a strain in a few generations of captive breeding on a commercial scale, but it seems unlikely that a wild population with those colors would have a high survival rate.

#3 Guest_EricaWieser_*

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Posted 11 April 2012 - 09:26 PM

I'd believe it. I saw this video of wild swordtails with males with a bright orange stripe:

They seem to survive pretty well in the wild even with that orange on them.
There's some sort of darter in the video at 0:14

Edited by EricaWieser, 11 April 2012 - 09:27 PM.

#4 Guest_exasperatus2002_*

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Posted 11 April 2012 - 09:47 PM

Nice video but anyone notice the shortage of females in it?

Edited by exasperatus2002, 11 April 2012 - 09:48 PM.

#5 Guest_EricaWieser_*

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Posted 11 April 2012 - 09:53 PM

Nice video but anyone notice the shortage of females in it?

See part 2: youtube.com/watch?v=WV1kq8Dqzh4

And here's some wild platies, look at the yellow:
http://youtu.be/hFwwTVAmAX8

Edited by EricaWieser, 11 April 2012 - 10:03 PM.

#6 Guest_Usil_*

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Posted 12 April 2012 - 09:25 AM

Do the wild platies live on eating algae? It seemed they were intent to clean it off the rocks.

#7 Guest_gerald_*

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Posted 12 April 2012 - 12:17 PM

The P. latipinna pictured in Fritz's Freshwater Fishes of SC book has a bright yellow-orange face. The photo is by Noel Burkhead of FL so I'm guessing its probably a FL specimen. The few mollies I've seen in the Carolinas dont have much face color.

#8 Guest_EricaWieser_*

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Posted 12 April 2012 - 12:27 PM

Do the wild platies live on eating algae? It seemed they were intent to clean it off the rocks.

They're pretty omnivorous. They eat what's available.

#9 Guest_JamesH_*

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Posted 27 April 2012 - 10:32 AM

Erica, those platies look great, so much better then what you get in a normal pet shop. I have some petshop "variatus" that are outside right now in tubs and I hope that I can get some wild variatus stock to mix back in and see what happens.