AstonN24vantage
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Hi all. I wanted to show everyone that wanted a little bit of a challenge how to take a not pregnant swordtail and make it pregnant. This is for people who want to breed their swordtails, the 100% way. So to start off, today i bought a nice looking female from Petco. I do not remember what the name of it is, it was something that Petco won a contest for naming. I believe it had fire somewhere in it, and possibly twinbar, as it says on the reciept. Anyway, she will hopefully be mating with my only other swordtail, a nice mickey mouse male. I'll get pics of the female and maybe somebody can ID it, but that will be a bit later. Petco invented this breed, I believe, and I think it is fairly new, so while in the process I may end up creating some sort of weird new breed, which since my first day of fishkeeping I've been wanting to do. She is extremely new, just a few hours in fact, so I assume that it will take a few days to "get to know the fish" and to get more acclimated. I will make the temperature go up slightly, to help them breed, however swordtails will breed under normal conditions just fine. I just want to speed the process up a bit. More updates will come soon, as soon as there is a change.