Mysterious Platinum blue red tailed red high finned platy

[Cedric]

Anyone ever seen such a fish, I found three down a tiny back alley at the fish market and they have just had fry.

I just wonder if they exist or am I seeing things? The vendor had no English not one word, and he only had five. So I took two females and a male. No mention on the internet that I can find. There are blue platy fish, but platinum blue with red fins? Anyone seen them before. They are just starting to relax in their garden vat so I will get some good shots soon. Look to be more towards the "variatus" in shape and size.
The colour looks very much like a Beta splendens, the only other fish I've seen with that platinum colour, and guppy, but these have nothing guppy about them. They couldn't be a hybrid between splendens because as far as I know they are different species and these are certainly fertile as well. Splendens is also not a live bearer, these are certainly that.

Strange, but they move quite snake like and very effectively. Something for you Sunbeam56, you seem to have the knack at finding out these things.

[Ky Kim]

I went searching, best I could come up with was this website has alot varities of platys: Fish2U.Com


Here are some from another website, it wouldn't let me copy the addy:


(Mickey Mouse Platy)(Red Wagtail Platy)(Southern Platy)(Red Tuxedo Platy)(Moon Fish Platy)(Topsail Rainbow Platy)(Sunset Platy)(Golden Platy)(Calico Platy)(Salt and Pepper Platy)(Coral Red Platy)(Black Platy)(Blue Platy)
 

It sounds like a cross between some of these to me.  Or, do you think they've been injected with dye.  I don't now about there, but they sell some fish here that have been injected with paint/dye to make them a neow blue, pink, yellow and green.  Its just a thought that pops into my mind.  Just thinking outloud.

Kim

[Cedric]

No Kim no dye job. Awhile ago you could even get Koi with your name tattooed across its back.

These are natural, Im beginning to think they might even be a species, and not a variety or hybrid, or very close to a species. They are just so very wild in character, hovering and darting, and twisting their bodies into S bends ready to strike. Very unlike my marigold and sunset platy that will even eat out of my hand under water.

Thanks for the links. Im going back to the market this weekend to do some more investigative work, try and rope in some hapless Chines visitors find who can speak some English to translate.

[Mikey]

Since you live in Hong Kong I assumed you spoke Chinese.  I guess we all know what that makes me 

[Cedric]

Not quite so fast. No I don't speak Chinese very well being English, but I do speak four other languages. Now if only the Chinese new a little Dutch.

Groetjies Cedric

Going to beat a path through the pouring rain to the fish market. Its been raining solid for a month, not just pitter pat pat, but woosh monsoon heavy.  Our very own floating market.

[tracey_shafer]

And I thought the rain had been bad here. Yeak. You could drop a bag of fish and have them just swim off to the vendor that sold them to you in that.

[Cedric]

And this is after the rain stopped for a bit. It came up to my knees. No one bothers with shoes anymore. You are very close to being 100% correct Tracey, a vendor spilt her spotty catfish bowl and they all swam away. Poor thing she was doing doggy paddle between the tables trying to catch some of them. Not one all got away.

Ps-I knew some German Shafers very well, in S Africa any relation? Ingrid and her two sisters and little brother.

[tracey_shafer]

I think my in laws have been here several generations so would not know the extended family.

[Cedric]

IC, That wouldn't be them, they only left Africa about twenty years ago. :'(