swordtails misscarriage; baby guppy malformation

[swordNiN]

hi!

i have an aquarium for about 3 months, and my current community is: 1 albine shark; 2 plecostomos (i think that´s how it is spelled), 5 tetra - neons, 1 swordtail male and 2 swordtail female.

the second female i purchased her already pregnate; since i didnt knew how long she was pregnate, i put her in the breeding box; and she misscariage...it gave "birth" to the embrions, little spheres,orange little spheres, with yellow dots on them, and one of the spheres had inside it a malformed fry....it was sad for me to look at that. and i am looking for reasons to the misscariage....because i dont know what happened....i did exactly with this female what i did with the first (and she gave birth to thirty frys). i also have another question. i have two guppy fryes on the community (not inside the baby breeding box), and they are ok, except for one that, notwithstanding showing great health, his spine has a shape of an L....that malformation is usual?

sorry for my bad writting english

[Wolfie81]

From what I've read, stressing a pregnant fish by moving her too early can cause her to abort the fry... and the spinal deformity is probably a birth defect. That guppy should not be allowed to breed, so the defect is not passed on.

Sorry to hear of your troubles.

[Nick_Pavlovski]

Yeah, that bent spine shows it's malformed.
Sorry the births didn't work. Maybe she isn't mature enough?

Did you condition the fish with lots of food beforehand?

[swordNiN]

although one of my female swordtails had an abortion i had luck...explaining:

i bought a couple of guppies, she gave birth to 20, and then died. From that 20 newborn, 2 survived
being one of them malformed.they are no longer in the breeding box, they are in the community aquarium,
i don´t think the others will eat them.
After that i bought a couple of swordtails, she was already pregnate. it took 1 day after the purchase for
her to give birth to 30 swordtail fries. 20 survived.
after that i bought a second swordtail female, pregnate too; and that was the one who had an abortion.
the female is now with the swordtail couple, and they are all getting along.


now i have a couple of questions to make:

1 - the swordtail fries have between 0.2 and 0.4 inches, how much longer they´ll have to grow so that i may feel
safe to put them on the aquarium without the other fishes eat them? and should i expect more losses?
The water temp is between 28/29 cº . and i feed them correctly.

2 - the first female swordtail when she was pregnant i looked in her belly and the fries seemed me already ready to born,
then i put the female in the breeding box and the delivery was ok.

3 - the second female i looked to her belly to and it seemed that the fries were not formed yet, but i put the female in the breeding box in the same way
and she had an abortion.... so i was right both times. should i trust more in my guts?

4 - i have the ratio 2 females for 1 swordtail male, when will them be pregnate again?

and one last question

5 - i have 2 or 3 fluffy things floating in my aquarium, they are small (about the same size as a fish eye), and they look like those flowers when you blow them they release in the air
a kind of "white hair", what are those? bacteria, harmfull?

once again thanks for your patience

[Futureboy]

Compleatly off topic....NIN fan?

[swordNiN]

Compleatly off topic....NIN fan?

yes, extremly.

[Kuli_Loach]

1 - I would wait until roughly 1" to put them in there and depending on tank mates is to the loses.

2 - She was ready, congratulations on the fry.

3 - How much smaller was this one and if you knew she wasn't ready, why did you put her in the breeding box?

4 - I think the pregnancy of swordtails are about a month. You should see the male start breeding them soon.


5 - Got a window open beside the tank?