ok well i have one 100 gallon tank with balas and guppies in it and i have babie bala sharks for the past several weeks. i found this web page wile doing research on them and i am letting everyone know its not that rare i guess cuz it happned to me but i have between 7 and 10 babie bala sharks at first i thought they were guppies but then they started to take shape and there is no mistakeing there balas. inever saw eggs but they had to be some where the tank is hevly planted ok well you people are all crazy and if you dont belive me or like what i have to say then dont read it
sexing bala sharks
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OK. Quick biology lesson. Teleost fish do not mate and then lay eggs later like birds. They employ external fertilisation, which means that they lay unfertilised eggs which the male then fertilises in the water. Setting up a tank just for the mother isn't going to achieve anything. She can't spawn on her own.
Quick lesson about Bala sharks. Yours are babies. They grow to around 14". Being carp, they may be sexually mature at around 7". But not 2.5".
You may get them to spawn spontaneously in a very large tank. But baby sharks are not going to spawn, definitely not isolated females, and most certainly not in a 10 gallon tank.
