Do you think she is pregnant ?

[GuppyLover]

Holy Cow! With all of the fry your fish are dropping your gonna need a 150 gallon tank, lol!

 

[KateC]

I know lol we already have 4 tanks thought going to need a bigger house

 

[GuppyLover]

Lol, you'll have to upgrade because you have to many tanks.

 

[Dude1982]

Lol just got back from a family meal and there must be around 80 of them now !

 

[Dude1982]

The platys fry is tiny, about half the size of the baby swords. I was wondering if they will be ok in the tank with the swords or would the swords eat them ?

 

[Dylan5359]

Depends if there is now big size difference, no they won't eat them. If they're obviously bigger than yes. Like once i placed a month old swordtail fry with newly born fry And they were fine together. And wow congrats on all the babies! The most my swordtails ever had was 7 fry v1 in which survived to adulthood. That's probably because didn't feed them live brine shrimp but fry food. Better survival rate i assume. Hope I helped somewhat!

-Dylan

 

[GuppyLover]

If they are that small then yes, they will eat them. You could always get a tank divider and divide off a small portion for the fry.

 

[Dude1982]

Thanks Dylan and guppy I think I might leave them in our little birthing tank for around a week and then put them in with the swords. The swords are 3 weeks and 2 days old now and seem happy with the new tank lol.

 

[Dude1982]

I changed my mind lol. I moved them in their breeding net with the swords and realised there wasn't much of a size difference so I let them loose in the tank . You can tell which are which fish in the picture !

 

[Dylan5359]

aw. very cute! makes me want to go pick up a couple of swordtails for my community tank!

-Dylan

 

[KateC]

They r loverly will be sad to sell them but we don't have the space for them, I just hope the other half doesn't decide he wants another new tank haha

 

[Dude1982]

We have a Siamese fry lol there are 2 which are connected at the belly.

 

[Dylan5359]

ahh! i would keep the siamese one!

-Dylan

 

[GuppyLover]

Siamese one will probably die :/ although its is kind of funny lol.

 

[Dylan5359]

It is. Still make sure he gets the most food! Lol

-Dylan

 

[Dude1982]

Yeah I'm keeping an eye on him to see how they do lol but I can't see them lasting very long !

 

[Dude1982]

Sadly the Siamese fry didn't make it lol I didn't think it would. It's going to the fishy graveyard (down the toilet lol).

 

[Tim Wheatley]

I think that's pretty common. The livebreeders I used to keep I saw fry without tails and some other stillbirths. But this only happened on the first round of births, every other time all fry seemed perfect. I thought it might be because the first sperm the female used was from a close relative so the genetics were messed up.

 

[Dylan5359]

Sadly the Siamese fry didn't make it lol I didn't think it would. It's going to the fishy graveyard (down the toilet lol).

NOOOOO!

-Dylan

 

[silver_rose42]

Congrats!

Not so much on the death of the siamese fry, but on the successful birth of the other fry.