Pregnant Swordtail
Pregnant Swordtail2007-11-24 23:40:11
My swordtail is pregnant and I have an undergravel filter will this be a problem when the baby fish are born?
Answers:The filter won't be a problem but if you want some of the fry to survive you should buy some leafy plants that the fry can live in (and eat). This particular plant will survive if allowed to float along the surface http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_.
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Shouldn't effect them at all. Make sure you have plenty of plants, decorations etc for the babies to hide in. Any adult fish in the tank may try to eat the babies. Also make sure any exposed intake valves (where the water gets sucked into the filter) are covered with net, or the proper caps/tubes that comes with the filter so the babies don't get sucked up into the filter.
No, they gravitate upward. Provide some brush on the surface of the water for the babies to hide in. Not an expert on swordtails, although I have had them. But assuming they are like guppies, the mother might try to eat them. A piece of ornamental plastic fern, or something else with dense foliage, might do the trick. Not to worry about the undergravel filter.
She will eat them when born you need lots of hiding places or a breeding tank that hangs on the inside of the aqu. then when she gives birth the newbies drop into a protected area.
Lots of fish be shaggin' these days!
LOL!
No the under-gravel filter is not a problem, but the live-bearers tend to eat their young very quickly so if u want the fries to survive either have a lot of plant cover or alternatively about 2 to 3 inches above the gravel place a mesh such that the fries can go through but the big fish remain up.
No, but the parents will eat the fry if they don't have a place to hide.