2 Male Fancy Guppy

I really didn't really want to post on goldfish, I wanted to post on guppies.

But I couldn't find the right photos that would show step by step progress (deterioration) of guppy type over time, while the photos of goldfish de-evolution were not only complete, they were in public domain right on wikimedia, and with superior photography.


Most importantly, I found several photos of extreme show goldfish type, intermediate type like the Comet, and early gold types, as well as a good wild type! Thank you very much to all of you who posted photos into public domain. (I search wikimedia).


I love guppies. I use to raise guppies. They were the first pets that I raised myself. I still like them.


I wont get into how I got started in fish, how I got my first fish tank (I was 7 years old, but I had had fish in glass bowls before that).


Nor will I rehash all the disputes with my parent over which fish to breed, what to name them.

Every guppy bought was named very soon after purchase, and my parents chimed in and argued for their choice of names for each guppy bought.


But I usually got to name the baby fish myself because I learned to spot their developing color at first hint, and became the one who could first see them as an individual, not as identical fish in a school of baby fish. And you can't name the baby fish when they are first born because you can't tell one from the others.


What I want to move on to, is the problems that I noticed in guppy breeding, that are either the same problems that were in breeding kittens & puppies, or which would later become problems in the breeding of animals.


Because, some of these problems in animal breeding, are not really problems with animals, but problems with the people who choose to breed animals for fun or money. It doesn't matter if we talk about goldfish, guppies, pigeons, chickens, rabbits, cats, dogs, or horses - the same problems occur over and over, because the problem is with the people and the kinds of systems that (fail to) regulate them.


They have the same cures, because the idea is the same, to lead most all people down the right path, to shoo stray people off the wrong path, and to go after bull-headed people who wont stay off a harmful path.