Identifying black moscow

[Aris]

Originally Posted by 5050

The strain name is 'Moscow Black'. "Moscow" is one major strain in guppy in term of genetics, it can be seen more from the male body.

'Moscow Black' has a few challenge :
- Black color
- full coverage in the body
- ..

It also has the challenge in term of photography, at least for me, it is one of the most difficult strain to take photo. Visually black fish might turn out to be not so black, like showing 'blue color'.

Cheers

Chiu

Not only blue but also dark green in certain light condition and camera flash. I would say the first photo is not solid black and has white bellies and should be outcross with a good female to strengthen the black.

[digichris]

hmmm... i always though better to outcross to a male for better colouration? or u are carrying an X-linked line??

[KeeHuat]

Originally Posted by digichris

hmmm... i always though better to outcross to a male for better colouration? or u are carrying an X-linked line??

Chris, are you making a return

thanks for sharing the info

[jest1081]

heres what i learnt from a recent convo with luke roebuck. moscow blacks came from very dark purple moscows which are usually culls. it was further developed and improved in asia. thus its not surprising to see faint tints of blue after several gens of inbreeding. to maintain its color, you will need several lines to outcross to from time to time

Originally Posted by Harvey35

Right right thanks for the input mod angelo..
Have a nice weekend ahead

so you know how to identify a moscow black already? teach me pls! haha

[angelo]

Originally Posted by Aris

Not only blue but also dark green in certain light condition and camera flash. I would say the first photo is not solid black and has white bellies and should be outcross with a good female to strengthen the black.

Brother, seem like you know a very key point in getting better black colour. This is not known by many full black guppy player. Care to share what are the features of the female we should loook out for.