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

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!

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!

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?

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