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Posted 07 January 2008 - 09:47 PM

I was so interesing into the amazon mollies since they are so unique since they are almost all females. But they are rare in aquarium trade. And no one in other forums seems don't have them.

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Posted 07 January 2008 - 09:50 PM

I was so interesing into the amazon mollies since they are so unique since they are almost all females. But they are rare in aquarium trade. And no one in other forums seems don't have them.



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What part of North America does the amazon run through?

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Posted 07 January 2008 - 09:59 PM

Dude, they are not come from the Amazon River. Their name come from an all females tribe in the Amazon. Poecilia formosa is their latin name.

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Posted 07 January 2008 - 11:35 PM

Dude, they are not come from the Amazon River. Their name come from an all females tribe in the Amazon. Poecilia formosa is their latin name.


And they are North American....

I had some of these from a population in North Eastern Mexico for quite some time but lost the colony. Very Very interesting fish but a little demanding IME. Mine where very partial to nice big exceptional Poecilia latipinna males and seemed to for some reason shun typical smaller P. Latipinna and ignore P. spheops and P. mexicana Really they where not as difficult to keep and keep going as it was to keep a good P. velifera hybrids or P. latipinna around to mate with them that they would except and respect.

I have heard from others they are not so picky but in my case they where very much so.

I personally would love to get this fish back into my collection...

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Posted 29 July 2008 - 10:58 PM

After a while of search for amazon mollies, I finally found them on aquabid and won the bid too. Now im sooooooooooooo excited about it! I've sold my tropical community fishes and switched to the native community tank so it will be home for five juvies (the tank is empty right now).

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Posted 30 July 2008 - 09:09 AM

After a while of search for amazon mollies, I finally found them on aquabid and won the bid too. Now im sooooooooooooo excited about it! I've sold my tropical community fishes and switched to the native community tank so it will be home for five juvies (the tank is empty right now).

Very cool. Have you bred them before? My understanding is you need a male fish. This seems like a source of complication, as the Amazons may have different requirements than a donor male from the LFS. Maybe not. I'd be interested to hear your progress.

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Posted 30 July 2008 - 05:58 PM

Hmm well I never bred them before but they were just juvies. But it will be interesting about which male species the females will mate with. And I don't know if the LFS molly males will work as breeding.

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Posted 30 July 2008 - 07:24 PM

Don't buy a pet store molly.
If you want, I can send you some captive bred pure Florida sailfins.

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Posted 01 August 2008 - 04:03 PM

Don't buy a pet store molly.
If you want, I can send you some captive bred pure Florida sailfins.


Thanks for the offer, ill PM you when my amazon mollies are sexually mature. I want two males (one younger, one mature).

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Posted 14 January 2009 - 07:57 AM

Back when I kept these fish I couldnt convice any of my latipinna males to mate with them. I later found that the amazon females mimic the female behavior of the species they use as donor. So if they grow up with latipinnas they act one way, and if they grow up with mexicana they act another way. The solution was to add some black pet store mollies. These fish are hybrids and act mollyweird anyway so they went on anything swimming. I would then let the fry from formosa grow up with my latipinna and the problems was solved. one funny and rather odd thing was that some of the formosa fry has a few black dots on them. Something they lost again in the next generation.

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Posted 14 January 2009 - 11:49 PM

There's a lab in my school that focuses on everything Amazon Molly. Here's a link http://www.bio.txsta.../~gabor/lab.htm. They've been introduced in San Marcos, and are native to South Texas and Mexico (and I guess NM, too). I've kept them with no problems in the past, but I wasn't trying to breed them or anything (they were mostly left over feeders). The lab I'm in catches them occasionally, but we are more observational than experimental, so we leave the sex experiments to the folks that like to do lab work. You might get some of your questions answered in the papers coming out of the Gabor Lab.

Now, if you want a real challenge, try keeping Amazon Silversides.

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Posted 18 March 2009 - 04:20 PM

:shock:

What part of North America does the amazon run through?


I think it is pretty close to where Mexico runs through the States. Where the Mexican Tetra is found. Yep I know it is, right near the Amazon. The Amazon River and the Pecos river in Texas run side by side. I am sure of it. You can probably find both species in either river I would think. YEP :fishy:

Edited by nativecajun, 18 March 2009 - 04:22 PM.


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Posted 18 March 2009 - 06:24 PM

. The Amazon River and the Pecos river in Texas run side by side.

And Which Amazon river are you talking about? :huh:

Edited by AuzzieM, 18 March 2009 - 06:25 PM.


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Posted 18 March 2009 - 08:37 PM

El Rio Amazonas del Norte Seco, of course. AKA the Rio Bravo.



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