Good and Bad News

[Angry_Platy]

As many of you know, my navy blue swordie died earlier this week I was quite sad....I think she may have been about to deliver fry...

NEXT BAD NEWS.....I got home last night to discover that my female lyretail swordy had decided to commit suicide....was the food I fed them not to her liking? Did the male pester her too much? Were the guppies driving her insane? Did I try to rescue her? YES. She was dried up however so was obviously out of the tank for some time Bye bye little fishie .... :bye bye: you were so purdy

GOOD NEWS....I went to the LFS this morning...simply because they are going to be closed for most of the long weekend and I had to get my fix AND....surprise surprise I bought more swordies...a female navy blue sword (with green reflective bits) and a female sunset twinbar sword. Both girls are SOOO purdy and my male sword is allready deciding which one he shall have his way with first ......I am hoping he has his way with both of them but I am evil

Just wanted to share

 

[Polardbear]

I'm sorry about your suicidal girl! You'd think they'd at least leave a note...

Glad you found some new girls, and I'm sure your little boy is happy about it as well. They both sound beautiful, he may have a hard time deciding who to play with first! Let's see some pictures!

 

[Angry_Platy]

You'd think they'd at least leave a note...

Yes. Ungrateful so-and-so. She coulda said "I find the food tasteless and the guppies annoying"

hard time deciding who to play with first

Ha ha. He seems to be chasing off the sunset twinbar while following the new navy blue girl around

Let's see some pictures

I shall try to get some for you as soon as possible

 

[bigfish]

hey congrats on your new swordies....i'm not having much luck either some of my navy blue swordie fry have died.... looks like fungus but the sunsets are doing well and seem to be growing.

 

[WILDER]

Sorry for your loss it happened to me once a platy jumping out of the tank, congrats on the newbie's to the tank.

 

[_fish_a_holic_]

I've had the worst luck with my swordtails lately ... started off with a pair of orange/black bar. First the male just up and disappeared with not a trace (bad fish momma, no cover on tank, he must've jumped out and the cat had a snack)

Then the female pined away and died...

Then I got another pair, yellow with black bar. Female died giving birth to three fry

Then, I found the most gorgeous pair of wild-type swordies... they were doing so well, but just this arvo I found the male being scavenged by one of my snails!

So now I'm down to one mismatched pair... the others in the tank are doing great, platties just keep going and going and the gups & mollies would survive a nuclear attack I think (so someone said once)

*SIGH*

 

[Angry_Platy]

I like the nuclear analogy.I could never keep guppies alive. now the guppies are thriving and the swordies aren't Perhaps I am not meant to have swordies, who knows.

That and the fact that no matter how many males and female platies I have they just won't give me fry......sigh....

 

[_fish_a_holic_]

I'm starting to think that I'm not meant to have swordies either... only mollies which keep popping out fry every day it seems!!! Always heard that guppies are the most fecund of the lot but I reckon mollies are far more so! Platties are OK at it, and when you do get them they are the most gorgeous little babeez...