Colour Varieties
Guppy
The basic colour appear
primarily blue, yellow, red or black fish in combination with square,
delta, banner, pin, sword, or lyre tails.
Platy
Wagtails: Yellow-gold with black fins or red with black fins.
Tuxedo: Gold or red backs with black sides and bottom. Belly is
usually white.
Golden: Body pale yellow, some species with a black crescent on
base of tail. Sometimes males have red patch below and extending into
dorsal fin.
Reds: Two types. One blood-red, the other is brick-red. Males are
totally darker.
Blue: Shiny, mirror-blue bodies, occasionally with some red in
fins, black on base of tail.
Black-Blue: Black body with glitters of yellow or red. Shiny, not
faded like Mollies.
Salt & Pepper or Spotted or Berlins: Red or yellow body covered
with small black spots. Some species with black fins.
Platy Variatus
Red-tailed: Males with more or less black dotting on gray-green
background. Tail and dorsal glowed with red. Females are plain.
Yellow tailed: Same as above but with yellow instead of red.
Sunset: Like as mention above, color more yellow than gold.
Scales may have pale black edges. Dorsal usually red.
Marigold: A rich golden-red in both sexes, with dorsal and tail
reddish.
Nubain: Nearly all black. Some red or yellow part in front part
of the body. Fins clear.
Hi-Fins: Available in various colors. Dorsal, especially of male,
very big and long-rayed, carried like a flag.
Tuxedo-coloured: As usual Tuxedo Platy.
Swordtail
Every colour assortment as in ordinary Platy except blue. In addition to
these:
Green-Wild type: Green body colour with vermilion lateral streaks,
maybe edged in black or crossed by two to four black vertical bars.
Streaks continuous with sword in male. Great stock green Swords have the
longest swords of all Swordtail diversity.
Simpson Hi-Fins: Presented in all colours. The dorsal fin is
extended and flickers out into a flag. Less abundant than non-Hi-fins.
Mollies
Black-Body: Solid black, will produce several young in every
brood which are gray-bodied as are wild Mollies.
Sailfins: Big Molly type, either sphenops or latipinna, either
all black or green- bodied. Males with big dorsals, typically carried
folded except when courting. Dorsals might be edged in red. Raised in
outdoor ponds, aquarium broods rarely develop sail.
Lyretails: Green or black-bodied. Tail has long extension on
bottom and top. Anal and ventrals are usually long and flowing. Dorsal
may show broadening.
Note: The list is continuous. Even as this is being written new
range of colour and form are being developed. If you want to be an artist
working with nature take up the
breeding of livebearers. You can
generate your own variety and strain.
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