lucky between disaster, and the right size

[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

[mitcore]

1: water temp looks good, they might be taken, i tend to leave mine and hope for the best
2:good job
3:i think you should you have good judement
4: they will, swords are live breeders and as live breeders they have heaps of babies, i cant see why you wont get more
5: sorry cant help with this one
you are going well though
keep up the good work

[Incredulous_Ed]

Hey, you asked this question on the WWFA. here is my answer from there:

1. The fry are in the breeding box, correct? Wait till they are about .75 to an inch long before you add them. What are you feeding? If they are on a good quality diet and the water is clean, don't expect to have many loses. But a few will die even if you are doing everything right, so don't sweat it.

2.ok

3. What do you mean she had an abortion? maybe she was not preganate in the first place.

4. The gestation period is about 28 days, but ranges from 20 to 40 days.

5. Maybe they are fungus. In any case, vacuum them out. Do you regulary change the water and vacumm the tank?

Hope this answers your questions.

[swordNiN]

1: water temp looks good, they might be taken, i tend to leave mine and hope for the best
2:good job
3:i think you should you have good judement
4: they will, swords are live breeders and as live breeders they have heaps of babies, i cant see why you wont get more
5: sorry cant help with this one
you are going well though
keep up the good work

thanks for the heads up and the encoradgment.

[swordNiN]

Hey, you asked this question on the WWFA. here is my answer from there:

1. The fry are in the breeding box, correct? Wait till they are about .75 to an inch long before you add them. What are you feeding? If they are on a good quality diet and the water is clean, don't expect to have many loses. But a few will die even if you are doing everything right, so don't sweat it.

2.ok

3. What do you mean she had an abortion? maybe she was not preganate in the first place.

4. The gestation period is about 28 days, but ranges from 20 to 40 days.

5. Maybe they are fungus. In any case, vacuum them out. Do you regulary change the water and vacumm the tank?

Hope this answers your questions.


thanks for the heads up....

3. she was pregnate, cause she put 10 yellow rounded eggs with semi formed fish inside, transparent eggs, that dissolved in the wather in aproximatly 4 hours.

5. i change the water every 2 weeks, i dont vacuum. but i put in the water toxivec.