Swordtail Gender Change?

[TheSims3Dude]

Hey all!

Just a curious question, as I'm still puzzled over this,.. About a year ago, I bought a female pineapple sword, She had babies and everything (quite a few times actually,) but one day she turned into a male, I guess you could say, it was the only swordtail in my tank, (as the other female & male died) but it had a gonopodium and the "sword tail", this happened all within a week, but she had babies months before, so what could have happend? I'm sorry I don't have pics of it, but as I said, it was at least a year ago, I was just thinking about it again and see what people think,.. And please don't call me a liar,
I'm honestly telling the truth....

 

[helterskelter]

Their are a few types of sex changing swords.

• Late developers = Immature males that take up to and even over a year to mature. There will never produce fry.
• Hormone imbalanced = Females which have an overload of male hormones and develop a gonopodium and sword. These are infertile and will never produce fry if placed with virgin females.

Guessing you have the latter here.

Dont worry about people who accuse of being a liar here, some people are just rude. Some people are just being blunt
I'll always be blunt if feel it's needed.

 

[mystus]

are you sure the swordtail you have now had the babies and not the female that died?

 

[TheSims3Dude]

I'm sure it was the same female, both male & female died a few months before (they were different ones) the pineapple sword was the one that had the babies, then changed sex