kinda a grusome question

[wwestar2000]

Male lyretail swordies have very long gonopodiums, often the length of their sword Due to this they cannot impregnate a female. I read an article once where they managed to get a lyretail male swordy to breed by "trimming" his gonopodium. Kinda weird if ya ask me.

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These were the kinda answers i was looking for. Thanks guys. Now i can sleep at night

 

[wwestar2000]

legend has it that when fancy-strain guppies were first being developed in Asia, breeders used to snip the end of the gonopodium so that buyers couldn't start breeding their own. but they quit that once someone realized that most Americans are lazy suckers who are perfectly happy owning colorful mutts grown in a pond.

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This one 2! great! very intresting

 

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...I've heard in researching bettas that if a fishes fins get niped far enough it wouldn't grow back....

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that's not true...you obviously haven't seen BettaMomma's Lucky-the-tailess-wonder