Introduction to the Blog
This is a first in an occasional series of blogs on guppy topics.
I have been divesting myself of the hosting of two guppy sites recently, www.guppywiki.org and www.igees.org. But don't worry, you will be able to continue to use these sites as information sources. The sites have been picked up and run by other, more capable, hands.
I moved the forum on Guppy Designer to the book site and moved a lot of the advanced genetics information as well: http://books.guppydesigner.com. I am going to continue to support and encourage those who buy my guppy genetics books on the book site.
This has freed me up to spend more time in my newly expanded fish room conducting experimental crosses, documenting them and writing about them.
I plan to acquire some new strains at the end of the summer. I expect by the late fall the current round of 12 experimental crosses will have run the course. In particular I want to explore full red and grass guppies and their interactions with Moscows, snakeskins and platinums. The results of these crosses are being posted in the Design Lab series found on the book site. At some point I am going to create a book around the crosses I have conducted. So far there are 22 different crosses recorded in the Design Lab series. Hopefully I will be able to double this in the near future as many of the current crosses mature. I am also going to continue to expand the Guppy Color Bank's strains library. As my crosses reveal more information about the genetics of strains, I will be updating the Color Bank. (For example, a cross between a European Vienna Emerald Green and an IFGA Green female has yielded some interesting new information.)
Meanwhile work commitments have once again delayed the Complete Guppy Genetics book. That is just as well because Dr. Sergey Apryatin is about to conduct a series of Skype teleconferences on guppy genetics which might affect the book. Also as I continue to document my crosses, the useful information floating to the surface is making it into the last third of the book. So it will be a more "complete" book when I eventually do finish it.
Philip