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Our gold angels are a beautiful light gold color. They are a vigorous strain and a high percentage are veils.
Our black angels are a nice dark black. You can make out stripes within the black. A vigorous strain again with a high percentage of veils.
Our black marbled angels are a basic black with white marbling. Also vigorous with a high proportion of veils.
Our Porthole Livebearers(Also known as Five-spot Livebearer) (Poeciliopsis Gracilis) are very vigorous, active fish. They are fun to watch and don't seem to eat their young so they are easy to breed. Native of Central America.
I collected the ancestors of these fish in a shallow steam in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1989. About one out of 500 of the wild males was marbled. Since then I have been breeding them for dark color, and now virtually every male will turn darkly marbled to black as it matures. Females are grey. These are predacious, nippy livebearers. They eat their young if they can, and nip fins on other fish. Easy to breed in a pond or large tank with lots of plants. The young just need a place to hide. Will winter fine in southern California in outdoor ponds if the top doesn't freeze solid. We ship adult pairs.
I have bred guppies since 1952. My first big tailed fish were from Paul Hahnel, who is generally credited with developing the first really large tailed guppies. I remember buying fry that had been dropped by $25.00 a pair fish of Paul's in Greensboro, North Carolina. They had been brought in by a local pet store, but of course $25.00 a pair was somewhat beyond my means at age 12. However, I raised some terrific fish from those 25 cent fry. A few years later I made a pilgrimage to New York and knocked on Paul's door. Due to his generosity I left with a pair of the best guppies available in the world at that time, and raised them for a couple of years.
School, marriage and a move to California meant giving up those fish, but I was soon raising fish on the west coast, and from 1965 to 1979 operated a wholesale fish business in San Diego. I was very pleased during that time to have a visit from Paul Hahnel. He dropped by while visiting with Frank Dayes, who was the premier guppy breeder in San Diego for many years. Paul made no real comment on my guppies at that time, but from the viewpoint of the accomplished German cabinet maker that he was, criticized my carpentry based on scraps of lumber with which I had been working!
I am presently working with two red strains, blues, moscows, snakeskins, swordtails and yellows.