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Diesel73[quote author=dogloverwoooo! link=topic=13953.msg264219#msg264219 date=1237757430]
How can a mummy fish have babies without a daddy fish?! :confused: :whistle:
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Yes they can :yes: , see female lifebearers can hold sperm internally from 1 mating up to 3- 4 even 5 months if you got a good male 😉 .
Bev, i never isolate the youngens nore the mothers, but i got well planted tanks. So i breed like ànd leave it to, nature. But i breed per breedstraign, not selective 1;1. 😉
Those that are the fastest and strongest will survive. But one good female that is fully grown can give birth to up 80 even babies per month as Bev already said too. And usually about more than half of them survive to grow big if you got well planted tank.
Some lifebearers can crossbreed if the belong to the same family. For example guppy x endler. But with pleco they will not as Bev explained.
She will eat it. Ever fed your fish waterflees? When the babies are born they look exactly like waterflees :-\ . The babies that are to slow yet bold enough get eaten.
I feed babyfish the same flake as grown fish but i first feed bigger fish and grind the last flakes between my fingers to vèry tiny flakes. The big fish will go for the bigger flakes and the tiny ones will are left for the babies. The babies will eat, not worry.
In 2-3 weeks they big enough to swim like a fish. As soon as bigger fish can identify them as such they won’t be eaten anymore. May still be chased a little but not eaten no more. But my babies stay in the tank, and if you removed them at birth they might have to wait atleast 3 weeks to put them back into your maintank. Fish have a peckingorder too.
In 2 months you’ll have babyfish which are a small copy of the bigger adult ones. Colour, full colour won’t show until about 6 months. Dominant colours will show within weeks, sometimes even days, but brighter colours and marking can take much longer to appear. My black tuxedo’s show colour within 2 days, but my kingcobra’s and tuxedo green sunsets take much longer.
Yup they grow slower BUT make no mistake they can breed when they are only about half their father’s size 😉 . With gups it’s easy to see, the females got pregnancyspots right from when they are about 3 weeks to a month old. That’s when i pick out the babymales, or they’ll start breeding too soon. Sordtails and platy little more difficult to see. But all male lifebearers have pogodium. Once the pogodium is visible (about 3 months, you can pick the males from the females. 😉
[quote author=kerrie and stan link=topic=13953.msg264267#msg264267 date=1237803091]
she had eight babies when i first noticed them but ive only been able to rescue 4 of them although i am still keeping an eye on the tank incase they are hiding.
i get paid tomorow so will pop into P@H and pick one up, they should be ok until then shouldnt they?
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It is good you don’t see them. I do want to see them be born, but than i don’t want to see them for the next 2 weeks. The less i see them, the more will survive 😉 .
[quote author=kerrie and stan link=topic=13953.msg264426#msg264426 date=1237986387]
the babbies are still alive ;D ;D for some reason this didnt show in my unread bit
ive now got a breeding pen for them instead of a butter pot 😀
the filter system is a standered filter nothing fancy and not overly powerfull but its only a little tank so it does the job, i think
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I find Carbon bio filters are the best. They filter the nitrite and harmfull water elements.
I always go for stronger filter than tank needs, no tankwater can be to much clean.
Kerrie? What Lnumber Pleco you got? Male or female?