I recently was able to stop by and see some trophy-quality guppies from a breeder here in Houston.  Golly gee they are beautiful.  For a fish that is so small and can so easily breed, there are so many different genes that are so hard to isolate and therefore those phenotypes are not seen widely.  Green Terrors and other cichlids for example have more so been limited to a couple strains here and there but for guppies, relatively, there is like an endless chart of genotypes!

After seeing his collection, no wonder these guppies are so expensive even though they breed like crazy: the colors that he managed to get and the amount of notes and tracking that had to be done was so extensive!  One strain that caught my eyes were his full black Moscow Guppies.  Seeing something so dark compared to the usual bright and colorful strains really sets it out.  Along with the guppies’ active personality, these little ones were just mesmerizing!

I was able to get a couple of HB Red’s from him (basically half black body with red tail).  My dad used to have guppies a long time ago and so I wanted to get him back in the hobby and so he also has something to do during his free time.  Of course, I’ll be keeping a couple for myself also so I can mess around with the strains… =)

Here’s a photo of an HB Red that won 2nd Best of Show from the 7th Annual World Guppy Contest: