Wild Strain Endlers Livebearers VS Non-Wild

Every once and a while I hear someone say that they would like to have a true wild Endlers Livebearer rather than a developed strain of an Endler Livebearer.

I can completely understand the desire to have true wild Endlers Livebearers considering the plight of the species in the wild.

The fact is that many of the strains that are offered today are true wild types of Endlers Livebearers.  If it were not the efforts hobbyists like AdrianHD and others, the true wild strains of Endlers livebearers may have been lost forever.

AdrianHD (and other hobbyists) took some of the stains that he saw in their wild stock and separated them so that they could be line bred.  If it were not for his efforts and others in developing those strains, the Endlers would have cross bred into a blend of all of the strains that were available in the wild resulting in a washed out variety of Endler similar to what happened to the strains that were introduced in Europe in the 1980’s.

For those who want pure wild strains of Endlers Livebearers, your in luck they are still available if you purchase them as Pure N Class Endler’s from reputable hobbyists.

The following is a list of those strains that were developed by AdrianHD that are true examples of strains that were found in the wild.

• Black Bar, Red Black Bar (Collected in the late 1990’s through 2004 at Laguna De Los Potos North & South Lake)
• Peacock  (Collected in 1997, 1998 and 2004 at Laguna de los Patos North Lake & Laguna la Malaguena)
• Red Chest  (Collected in 1997, 1998 and 2004 at Laguna la Malaguena and in the hyacinth stream leaving Laguna de los Patos)
• Double Red Stripe  (Collected in 1997, 1998 and 2004 at Laguna la Malaguena and in the hyacinth stream leaving Laguna de los Patos North Lake)
• Snake Chest  (Collected in 1997, 1998 and 2004 at Laguna la Malaguena, hyacinth stream leaving Laguna de los Patos North Lake and Laguna de los Patos)
• Flame Tail  (Collected in 1997, 1998 and 2004 at Laguna de los Patos South Lake and Laguna la Malaguena)
• Center Peacock  (Collected in 1997, 1998 and 2004 at Laguna la Malaguena and the Black Endler Pond)
• Lime Green  (Collected in 2006 from an undisclosed location in the Cumana area)
• Orchid    (Collected in 2006 from an undisclosed location in the Cumana area)

Here is a list of those strains developed by AdrianHD that could NOT be found in the wild:

• Top Yellow Sword
• Mint Top Yellow sword
• Top Bar Red Endler
• Top Bar Snake Chest
• Top Blue Sword
• White Peacock
• Orange Spotted Endler

Update October 2018:  Since the time of this publication there have been several new strains of wild caught Endlers introduced into the hobby.