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  1. C

    SURPISE BABY SWORDTAIL

    We could have sworn our female was prego , but since we had a bichir I figured he ate the eggs. This was about a month ago. Today on my lunch come home to show my buddy my bichir , 4 baby velvet wag swordtails and counting! Iā€™ve been begging my wife for a second tank , guess whoā€™s on her way to...
  2. JackGulley

    How big do Swordtails grow? Which would you recommend for a 20 gal, that or Mollies?

    Hi, I'm setting up my first aquarium (20long planted freshwater); at the moment I've got cherry shrimp, zebra danios, and a couple of white cloud mountain minnows (plan to get more so they're not lonely) but I'm planning to get something a little bigger for the tank in the future. I'm drawn to...
  3. R

    Help, Emergency fry tank setup

    So Iā€™m in a bit of a pickle. Iā€™m wondering if someone can give me some advice. I have a pregnant swordtail in my 20gallon community tank and I also have a pair of (what I believe to be) sunset thicklipped gouramiā€™s, which up until yesterday were in my community tank. However a couple of fish had...
  4. R

    Possible pregnant swordtail

    Hi Iā€™m new to fish keeping and Iā€™m thinking one of my swordtail are pregnant? Iā€™m wondering if anyone could confirm this and possible know roughly how long it will be until she has fry? Thanks in advance:)
  5. D

    My weird Guppy!

    Good Morning!! Iā€™m new to this forum and very excited to be here. Iā€™ve been keeping fish for many many years and now only keep one thirty gallon tank. I have this unusual male guppy that has a triple swordtail. Has anyone seen a guppy like this?
  6. Katemine

    Nursery tank is finally complete.

    10 gal set up for live bearing mothers and their fry. No males allowed. Non pregnant females and males are kept in a studding tank. I love this hobby. It is keeping ke very happy. Let me know what you think of it.
  7. Couwu

    Guppies seem afraid of new Tank mates

    EDIT: 30.05.22 So, I am not sure if the tetra has/had lockjaw in the firdt place? Is there perhaps something similar to lockjaw? When we got him, his mouth was wide open and he could only move it a little bit. Now after a week of treatment, isolation and a clean hospital tank, his mouth can...
    • Couwu
    • Thread
    • 150l buenos aires tetra gourami guppy help lockjaw swordtail
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Tropical Discussion
  8. oacason27

    Nodule?

    I bought a few swordtails online. This male has a raised tan nodule on it's fin. He seems healthy otherwise. Any idea what it is? I asked the seller and they said it looked like his coloring...but it's clearly a raised bump. The new fish are in quarantine so no worries there. No issues with the...
  9. G

    Possibly pregnant Swordtail help!!

    Fat or pregnant swordtail ?? Is she is pregnant how much longer do you think until babies? ā€¦ so sorry she is poopingšŸ˜‚ Itā€™s a koi female swordtail and I also have a male koi swordtail I have another post too today for a platy if u can help with that too wonā€™t let me put vids so they are blurry
    • Graceloe
    • Thread
    • fry live bearers pregnant pregnant swordtail swordtail swordtail babies swordtail fry
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Livebearers
  10. xipo817

    About genetics of platy and swordtail

    I am planning to make albino platy by crossing platy and albino swordtail. I know the oncogene xmrk located in X and Y chromosome in platy might cause tumor in hybrid if I am not careful enough. I heard those tumor is melanoma and its progenitor is only macromelanophore. So my question is...
    • xipo817
    • Thread
    • hybrid platy swordtail xiphophorus
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Livebearers
  11. R

    60 litres: Single male swordtail with or without guppies

    Hello Everyone I have 60 litres (13.2 gallon) tank with a group of Endler guppies in. They are doing great but of course, there is a problem of the rapidly growing population I would like to control. I bought 4 of them and now I have around 15 adults and lots of youngsters/fry. I always liked...
    • Raf93
    • Thread
    • #tanksize swordtail tank companions
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Livebearers
  12. M

    Livebearers not breeding-suggestions?

    Hi everyone, Apologies for the long winded post, but I want to give as much information as I can to hopefully get the best answers possible. I currently have a 20 gallon tank set up. Iā€™ve kept tanks on and off for years. This tank was set up in November. It contains livebearers as well as live...
    • mcr123
    • Thread
    • live bearers mollies platties swordtail
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Livebearers
  13. JemZ

    Injured Swordtail

    Hey everyone I believe my swordtail has sustained an injury from my Chinese Algae Eater. Ever since I moved my pregnant platy to her own aquarium the swordtail has become almost entranced by the CAE. He'll swim around his house and poke his head inside and sometimes I think he may be displaying...
  14. C

    Confusion, is my swordtail a swordtail and is it male or female?

    Hi All, Iā€™m new to this so go easy on me! Last week I bought 3 female swordtails to go with my current male swordtail. Unfortunately 2 died and this is the last one however I am super confused. It has a gonopodium, suggesting it is a male however it doesnā€™t have a long sword. Itā€™s rather large...
    • Cassiez
    • Thread
    • confusion female help live bearer male sexing swordtail
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Livebearers
  15. Barry Tetra

    My new swordtail

    Hello TFF, My friend just give me this swordtail, He is over 3.8 inches long. (Cant see well from a picture)
  16. F

    Swordtail is sick?

    I know something is wrong with my swordtail but I donā€™t know what is up. One week ago I cleaned their tank as I usually do. A couple days after that I noticed the swordtail was hanging on on the bottom of the tank, which was abnormal because he usually sleeps in the middle of the tank. He did...
  17. I

    Ideal temperature/tank requirements for encouraging livebearer pregnancy

    I currently have a number of platies, mollies, and a swordtail in a 55g community tank with a number of other fish set at 78 F. Is this an ideal temperature to encourage pregnancy or should I increase it to 79 or 80 degrees? I'll likely place any pregnant fish in a breeder net and then transfer...
  18. I

    Will swordtails shoal with mollies or platies?

    I currently have a 55 gallon tank with a bumblebee platy, 4 mollies (2 white LT, 1 black LT, 1 gold dust), some danios, a rainbow shark, 2 juvie clown loaches (will be moved to a larger tank in a couple months likely), a gourami, 2 panda corys, and 2 peppered corys. I recently went to my LFS to...
  19. T

    Something is very wrong in my tank

    Ok. This gon be long. I tried to get good pictures, but fish b fish ukno I've had 5 (6, but one died already from whatever it is that's wrong) female guppies since january. I bought them online from a good seller. They came healthy (and preggo :D), totally fine these past few months. They were...
    • Tao
    • Thread
    • api kit carbonatehardness cory fish generalhardness gh guppies help advice needed kh ph plantedtank platies sick aquarium swordtail test kit tetra
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Tropical Fish Emergencies
  20. Barry Tetra

    My swordtails pregnant what should I do?

    I think fries will born in about 2 weeks, should I put my swordtail mother in the QT tank? the main tank have rams in it they might eat the fries, so what should I do?

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