It's 25 Boys, 28 Girls, A Small City! - Aquarium Advice

fish_4_all · 05-28-2006, 12:55 AM

She dropped, my lovely neon swordtail, or better yet, exploded.

Here are the counts I have done since I found them this morning:
61, 50,48,57,53,62,58 and the latest at 56. That is without counting 11 dead. Is there record for the most babies from a sword! That's 55 ave, doesn't that make a football team?!?!?

I think I need a vet with a pair of really small scissors.

The babies are the little clear spots, not the red ones.

Now I know how you egg layer breeders feel

**Zagz** · 05-28-2006, 01:22 AM

Congratulations! Platies are known, as all livebearer's, to have many many fry.

fish_4_all · 05-28-2006, 01:51 AM

Thanks, but they are swords. I don't raise platties any more because they have way too many babies. I just never had a swordtail have more than 30 before.

**Zagz** · 05-28-2006, 02:00 AM

Oops. I can't read sometimes.

Swords have babies the same was as other livebearer's, tons of them. Guppies are my nemisis right now.

plecoperson · 05-28-2006, 03:13 AM

Mom is a really pretty fish--and that is a lot of babies for a swordtail. Congratulations!

05-28-2006, 12:55 AM	#1
fish_4_all Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Aberdeen, WA Posts: 1,809 Images: 4	It's 25 Boys, 28 Girls, A Small City! She dropped, my lovely neon swordtail, or better yet, exploded. Here are the counts I have done since I found them this morning: 61, 50,48,57,53,62,58 and the latest at 56. That is without counting 11 dead. Is there record for the most babies from a sword! That's 55 ave, doesn't that make a football team?!?!? I think I need a vet with a pair of really small scissors. The babies are the little clear spots, not the red ones. Now I know how you egg layer breeders feel

05-28-2006, 03:13 AM	#5
plecoperson Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Evanston, Illinois Posts: 1,164 Images: 3	Mom is a really pretty fish--and that is a lot of babies for a swordtail. Congratulations! __________________ -Lisa Remember that Darwin was mostly right!

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05-28-2006, 01:51 AM	#3
fish_4_all Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Aberdeen, WA Posts: 1,809 Images: 4	Thanks, but they are swords. I don't raise platties any more because they have way too many babies. I just never had a swordtail have more than 30 before.