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05-11-2003, 09:00 AM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: ontario, canada
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|  PLaty/Molly/Swordtail Questions OK im fairly new to community tanks, and i got my fish all setup up in my 35, u can see my signature for what i have. I just have a few questions id like clarified. 1)How fast do they grow? 2) How do u tell what sex they are? Ive read some special fin, but im not sure what im really lookin for. 3) Is my tank over/under or stocked nicely? 4) Any tips for keeping them too would be nice thank you all, great board this is, and community is the way to go  |
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05-11-2003, 11:18 AM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Phoenix
Posts: 127
| With all three livebearers, the males have gonopodiums that stick out from the bottom of thier bellies. These just look like little sticks and usually point toward the fish's tail. Usually, it takes about 3 months for me to see the gonopodium on all of my livebearers. Also, the females seem to get wider in the stomach even when they are not pregnant. Check out this website for more info: http://fish.orbust.net/livebearers.html. Andrea |
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05-11-2003, 07:46 PM
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| Large Fish Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: ontario, canada
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| woops sorry missed the part on that website "For platies and mollies the only way to tell how far into the pregnancy the fish is, is by seeing how fat they are, platies and mollies which are about to spawn will seem almost square from the back view and will be very swollen in the middle." |
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05-21-2003, 07:09 PM
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| Large Fish  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Canada
Posts: 880
| Hey! Does no one ever speak of the beautiful Guppy?!
__________________ All creatures currently being owned: Betta, Blue Paradise Fish, Cherry Barb, Endlers Livebearer, German Blue Rams, Guppy, Otocinclus, Red-Capped Oranda, White Cloud Mountain Minnow, Soft Shell Turtle I REALLY have to start breeding more different species of fish.. |
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05-21-2003, 07:18 PM
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| Large Fish Join Date: May 2003 Location: Canada
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| l0lx! soo how's your tank with them right now?
__________________ All creatures currently being owned: Betta, Blue Paradise Fish, Cherry Barb, Endlers Livebearer, German Blue Rams, Guppy, Otocinclus, Red-Capped Oranda, White Cloud Mountain Minnow, Soft Shell Turtle I REALLY have to start breeding more different species of fish.. |
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05-27-2003, 11:17 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish  Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Phoenix, AZ--in other words, the surface of the sun (but at least it's not humid so, yay, I can breath AND do fancy things with my hair!)
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| didn't feel like starting a new thread How big are mollies, normally, when they reach maturity? I have two and, when I asked what gender one was(the store was closing, didn't have time to ask about the other) I was told that he would "grow up to be a male" and he looks to be about an inch in length. The other one is about half the size and I think it's female because I can't find a genopodium(sp?) but I can't be sure since "she" might still be too young to tell. |
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