Swordtail Fry

[psychobilly]

swordtail fry what is there chance of survival in a large planted comunity tank

 

[millym]

hi
you may get the odd one or 2 but with your fish i think its doubtful but you never know. we've had our swordies for about a year & the only way we managed to get any survivors was by setting up a new little tank,cycling it & popping mum in when she was ready to 'pop'. the result was 50+ babies, we have rehomed 25 & are just about to rehome another 25 which will leave us with about 6 that are still quite small. we know in this time she has given birth to other batches of babies but none have survived ( but then we have tiger barbs who dont give anything much of a chance even in our heavily planted tank)
our female black mollie has just given birth again - was a bit unexpected as she wasnt that 'fat' i spotted 2 survivors by pure chance & we now have them in a breeder box in our main tank. the only other black mollie baby we've managed to be around for the birth & scooped out into the box again is now over a year old & in with the big boys in our main tank. all the others who were born at night or when we were out have gone - just always notice mum mollie looking fat one day skinny the next.

 

[bleechme]

It should be perfect. Mine isn't even that heavly planted yet. (I'm still working on and letting my plants grow) And my babies still somehow survive the fish in the community tank. They are smart enough to hide.