Sword Tail Help.

[Carina]

i have bright orange sword tail fish. i'm not sure if something is bullying them though....i havent seen any bad behaviour going on but their bellys are loosing their orange and going silver. and a little on their side as well.

Carina

 

[jayjay]

Could be gravid, 'pregnant'.

 

[Carina]

Could be gravid, 'pregnant'.

Its on the male as well so i dont think it can be that lol

 

[jayjay]

I think swordtail can 'change' sex.

 

[donna123]

hi,
swords or any livebearer, cannot change sex, they can be late to develop though, one of my swords i thought was a girl for 5 months is now getting his (sword ) to his tail.

 

[jayjay]

Ah was something like that lol. Not the fish I personally like, tis why I don't know alot

 

[Carina]

i just thought maybe they were being bullied or something? or is it normal for them to loose some orange?

 

[confusion]

are they young fish getting bigger, or adult fish just changing color?

 

[Carina]

Would have been useful for someone to tell me they were moving my thread. lol, ive been ages in tropical chit chat trying to find this post!

anyway they are young and old sword tails.

 

[LouiseRat]

hi,
swords or any livebearer, cannot change sex, they can be late to develop though, one of my swords i thought was a girl for 5 months is now getting his (sword ) to his tail.

oh my god ! that happened to us too lol we thought he was a she but then she grew a tail lol