My swordtail had 8 babies last night THEN JUMPED OUT OF THE TANK Then she had 25 more

[JamesBenjamin]

WHOA!

As you can see from my thread last night at the bottom of the page there, my pinapple swordtail had some babies last night. About 8 or so when it was all done. So about midnight my room mate came into my room and asked me if i had moved her back into the 55 gal tank, I didn't, so we came down to find her, and she had jumped out of the tank and was laying underneath the stand! I grabbed her and stuck her in the 10g again, and amazingly she started breathing, then slowly swimming around!

so i netted her into the breeding tank (the one where the babies falll through to the bottom) which was floating in the 10g (so she wouldnt eat her babies overnight, they are free in the 10g)

so I wake up this morning and there are like 25 more in that little breeding tank! not only did she survive being out of the tank, it was halfway through the birthing process!

there's a couple dead babies in there, but they seem healthy for the most part!

i think i should name the mommy rambo or something! WOW!

[djlen]

See what young ones can do to you......maybe she considered suicide and when she got put back in to the tank decided to have the balance of the brood!!!:rolleyes: :eek: :D
Amazing thing......Motherhood!!
Len

[Serrateeth_2002]

You counted the fry?:eek:

[JamisonBWolsh]

becarefull how many you breed, or your going to have to buy more tanks!

[JamesBenjamin]

I made a 'guestimate' and after i posted this, i realized that there are really closer to 50+ alltogether....

and yup, now they all need homes, but i think i'll trade them in at my LFS, even if they don't give me much credit, at least they'll have a good home!

[JamisonBWolsh]

so what are you going to do if they dont take them back?

[JamesBenjamin]

well, we bought the fish from a petco, or a petsmart, but there are 2 real 'LFS' in my area, that we prefer to shop at now, they might want to give us store credit for them, if not, i'll give them to the store for free, or to friends...

anybody in the northern VA area want some swordtails?

:)

[JamisonBWolsh]

This may sound mean...but you can also feed them live tou your bigger fish---a good nutrition source that is disease free.


Oh...forgot: they probably wont accept them until they get bigger

[JamesBenjamin]

Yeah, I was thinking that too... We were thinking of getting an oscar one of these days, and this might be the incentive...

[O-man21]

yea, I give my extra guppy babies to my 8 inch wild oscar
hehe(I'm so proud of him/her)

[Fisher Price]

baby swordtails grow VERY slow so you do not have to worry about overcrowding a 55 gal for a while. They also grow and mature at very different rates. What you thought was a female sometimes ends up a late developing male and what you thought was a runt ends up being the biggest of all of them when it finally grows.

[JamesBenjamin]

well, right now we've got about 50+ of them in a 10g tank, how long will they be ok in there before we have to pull some out?

[Tightdog1]

all the fish i breed (guppies/platys) get fed to me blue acaras, along with some of my brothers convict fry.

[NJ Devils Fan]

Wow, that's crazy.

[Shibbies]

Wow, congratulations on the new fry. If I live closer, I'd take a few off your hands. I love swordtails. They're so pretty.:)