May – 2024 BrightPoppy mutation update

There are mainly three mutations going on with BrightPoppy strain.
The first is light color version , body color is light blue and white. orange color has been faded away on the edge of the tail, the entire dorsal fin is white compare with most of part in orange but shaded with white in BrightPoppy, and over all, color is fading with transparent feeling similar to the white in Transnow. Black Sports has a few left. on the edge of the tail.
BrightPoppy did has certain blood carried on from Transnow when I started creating the strain, This might enhanced with the white gene in BrightPoppy.
Another mutation towards the opposite direction to push the fish in dark blue/black color. basically the whole body is almost black, with some potion of dorsal fin and tail show black as well. Black color in also in BrightPoppy strain, and that is where the black spots used for, also, the BrightPoppy lower body should be in deep blue/black , but more metal feeling.
I think this is the enhance of using dark black female in the breeding and black color just got enhanced
The last common seeing mutation is more around the pattern of the tail with tiger stripes instead of spots, the black color did impact over all color of the fish as well.
This is very interesting as this mutation should be a stable gene which I can continue to create a tiger stripe tail strain, I am not sure how other breeder create the leopard or tiger stripe guppy strain, but for me, I think it starts from small black spots and some how spots can be formed only in certain part of tail to form and patterned stripe, which confirm the spots in BrightPoppy might not be random as well.
I did not use any of these mutations in strain creation, BrightPoppy is establishing strain, but I still get certain number of each mutations from every batch.
The last mutation might be the only one I would like to continue to create a strain if I can get orange and stripes on dorsal fin and body

May – 2024 BlueLazuli mutation update

BlueLazuli is solid color fish in strain establishing. the source of pair did have pattern and spots with blue and possible orange color. I try to make sure those genes can be wiped or deeply hidden so I did not see it from BlueLazuli from selective breeding. but in each batch there is no surprise we will see some of the pattern and color showed up in some individuals.
For a solid color fish, it is every normal to see the solid color shows as waved color (dark and light crosses) , this is random and color is no longer solid, also seems transparent and faded.
and I also got some individuals lost a large portion of color or color has been mutated to light blue with certain part still remain dark blue. as the second picture showed, I do not think those are patterned stripes, those should be random while deep blue color faded or changed to light blue.
One of the mutation I do think is worth of continuing as showed in the third picture which solid color mutated to patterned stripes or spots. on the edge of the tail which became transparent and add black segments.
I did not use any of the these mutations for breeding , so all of them are directly from selective breeding from BlueLazuli, the further of the strain breeding, for BlueLazuli , it should be at 8th generation, I still see such mutations in a very different way. It is amazing how the gene plays under the selective breeding and the throw backs or mutations gave one of the kind fish in the world.

May – 2024 GreenRadial mutation update

For a pattern or spotted strain, it has less mutation concerns but more throw backs or weaken and missing in the full body and tail pattern.
From strain development point of view, we started with small area spot or partial pattern then selective breed to enhance the partial to cover the whole tail and even towards the body. so from breeding even the selective males is already full patterned, but the batch is always going to get some throw backs or missing pattern individuals.
This will happen in a U shape ratio. when first established the strain , we will get 20 to even 30 male individuals in each batch with partial or missing patterns, then this number reduced to 2 or 3 during the continues selective breeding to stabilized the strain, then when this strain has been going for 4-5 generation of close breeding without introduce new blood, such number will start increasing and normally introduce some new blood will also increase the missing pattern ratio just like start from strain establish at the beginning.
The three pictures showed three different individuals to represent this partial and missing pattern issues, the first one still has full radial orange from GreenRadial, but all the dark blue and black stripes has been faded into transparent gray.
The second one even impact the body color and orange spots is also missing big portion toward the lower tail,
The third one is similar to the first one, but it gets worse as body color has changed to gray and tail has became solid color with orange spots.
All of these fish will be culling into mutation display tank and not be used in any breeding process

May – 2024 Transnow and Skysilk mutation update

Transnow is the earliest strain I created, in the progress to stabilize the strain, there are many mutations, tail with gray color, tail with black spots, etc..
The pictures showed two very common but represent typical mutation processes
The first mutation , this individual basically lost a orange spots and the orange in the center of the tail. In Transnow strain creation notes, I discussed about how this orange spots got into the line. It is still a mystery, and I was thinking this is from wild guppy. but looks like this gene can be wiped off from breeding, that just got this mystery more interesting, if this can be wiped then how come Transnow which sources were from black Moscow and orange albino solid color fish to carry and pass this type of gene into Transnow?
I never use this male to breed to see if I can have the orange spot back to the offsprings, maybe I should do some batches to see the result, if the spot comes back, then it might be some triggers in the breeding to make it hidden and reappear or it might have something to do with the female?
Another version of mutation is the orange version of Transnow, which I do expected such fish, this is basically from the orange albino, although I did not start with orange albino male, but I think female also plays some roles to bring the orange gene into the Transnow male.
From this mutation, I can see all the white part has been replaced by orange, the center tail yellow also disappeared but leave transparent, and orange spot remains also enhanced in color and size.
This type of mutation is also very stable, I used this to breed 2 batches with Transnow’s female, and I got pretty much 80% of orange version Transnow already.
The last picture showed two males which have random patterns from SkySilk strain. very similar to BlueLazuri strain mutation. So far I have not got any SkySilk mutation which has patterned spots or stripes.

May – 2024 Pattern vs Random mutation update

After I worked with guppy to create and stabilize some new strains, I found out solid color fish will start developing spots, I started with two solid color fish which have been captive breed from many generations. but Guppy fish from wild is a spotted fish and this type of gene is very hard to be wiped and certain breeding condition will trigger it comes back,
most of time , the spots started around mid of tail and normally patterned with solid color, such mutation is something I can work with if I would like to introduce spotted or striped fish.
some of fish may show random spot or stripe with faded color, and those spots are normally showing on very unusual place such as dorsal fin, upper portion of tail, edge of tail and even belly and stomach. I called them random mutation, and difficult or not possible to work with. I used to have a Transnow with big black circle which I really like the fish, but I knew such mutation can not be worked on, and turned out to be nothing I can stabilize after 3 batches try.
There are some observation about the mutations to share
1. Patterned fish with spots or stripes have less mutation in color and pattern, but mainly degeneration on the full tail pattern. and it will be supper hard to have spots and stripes to cover on body .
2. Solid color fish tend to have many forms of mutations from changing color to showing up spots. And such mutations are easy to happen during all the stages of strain development.
3. Solid color fish with embellishment spots is the hardest to work with, strains like BrightPoppy, solid orange fish with small black spots like seeds of Poppy follow. I need to try not to enhanced spots to become stripes also prevent spots from fading away.

May – 2024 Mutation may consider to create strain

During many years of strain creation and saw hundreds of mutations, most of them were consider degeneration of the current strains and culling out from strain breeding. Some of them are unique and one of kind beautiful fish, but not able to work with to establish a strain.
I also said many times before, to start a strain development, we should start with a stable pair to cross to develop towards the fish as you preferred to create. Started from mutation has big risk even you think such fish has stabled genes to work with. and many times I tried before all failed. But I still encountered the 4 mutations showed on the right I can not resist to see if I can copy and paste or even make it more beautiful.
The first mutation is from BrightPoppy, but this one has black color showed on lower part with golden orange on the head and pectoral fin. the black color also shows as big circle area on the tail and dorsal fins, this reminder me the red panda which imply me to create a strain to called red panda guppy. I only have one individual male, I paired him with some secret females who have half orange half brown body. if I am able to continue with next generation, I would like to see if I can enhance the black area on the tail to make it as ring of black just like the Red panda’s tail.