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Different Gambusia?


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#1 Guest_catfish_hunter_*

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Posted 17 April 2008 - 06:44 PM

How do you tell the common mosquito fish from the other ones? I want to make sure the ones at my Petco in with the fatheads and rosy reds are the common mosquito fish, because I was thinking of breeding them as feeders and don't want to hybridize them.

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Posted 17 April 2008 - 07:08 PM

Do you mean Eastern versus Western or other Gambusia sp.? Anal fin rays is a way to tell E and W apart.

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Posted 17 April 2008 - 07:33 PM

Western are pretty more common in feeder shipments than eastern or other species. I can be wrong, but other gambusia species are not found in the feeder shipment because:

They are brackish water.
They are uncommon.
They are endangered species.
They have limited home range.

Eastern and western are most common gambusia of all species. I like eastern gambusia because the males are colorful when they're melanstic.



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