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Old 01-16-2003, 04:16 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Has anyone kept mosquito fish? Are they good for community tank?
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Old 01-16-2003, 08:10 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I haave.....nope..they arnet good for the community.....for to reasons.

If your talking about heterandia formosa, the pgmy livebearer....they may be eaten.

If you mean gambusia affinis or holbrooki thne they are quite aggresive, like tiger barbs.

Look after htme like other livebearers, just crush tyhe food ot small size for hte pgmyies.
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Old 01-16-2003, 09:12 PM   #3 (permalink)
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we have gambusia in almost all the tanks at a place i volunteer, mostly used as food for large things, but theres a group with an american flagfish and they never bother each other
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I've only ever kept them as curiosities in the turtle tank, they became lunch usually.
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I've heard mosquito fish mulitply quickly outdoor. Do they breed like crazy in aquarium too? I'm just curious about this fish but I don't want to get a tank full of them.
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they breed every 15-20 days but they're fry is so small it'll probably get eaten. they are one of the 10 smallest fish in the world (3/4 - 1 1/4 inches) so if you have quite big fish they will eat them
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Old 01-18-2003, 05:55 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Heterandia fomosa actually has pretty large fry for htee size.

I've seen female gambusia bigger than a swordtail!

Gambusia have about swordtail sized ones.......too bad they just love ot eat htem.


They are Kwazy outside in a pond.......I think I erradicated all hte ones in my pond though LOL
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yea we have some massive gambusia, but most are 3/4- 1 inch before we feed them to something
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