Swords

Hi all,

are Swords livebearers or egg hatchers ??

 

Livebearers

 

thanx J

 

Pleasure

 

They the same a mollies, guppies and platties
babies more or less once a month
from 10 to as much as 30

 

erm... I wish my sword ladies had attended the same school as yours, Donny LOL... my first batch of fry well in excess of 40, and that was juvies! Up to 60, easy!

 

Dam thats a lot the most i got was 40, and that was from a pineapple sword that was about 7cm .

 

Heh! Well, it can get a bit overwhelming! Grow out tub "babies" are now doing like the birds & bees do... I still find it hard to believe that generation 4 (yikes... in 1 yr) have somehow survived 15 juvie sailfin mollies, about 8 "teenage" swords and a few young platys, but hey, those little tykes are going STRONG! (I do have a large cloud of java moss in there, so obviously the latest lot of babies hid there!) Tip for you Luis!

 

thanx guys

 

Years ago a client had us clean out his koi pond in Kalk Bay...amoung the koi where hundreds of Green Swords and a few Pineapples...

What was amazing was that they mde it thru CT winters and the size of the females - some where up to almost 15cm's long...naturally I begged a few....he,he..Some went into my pond and others into tanks in the house.... record babies i counted was 178... And she ate a few...lol

Wish I still had that strain...sigh

 

WoW, 15cms ??
did he have heaters in the pond ??

 

No heaters,nothing.... they lived in my unheated pond in Greenpoint s well....

The Green Sword is the wild form of Xiphopherus helleri... So these must have been a strain that had not been inbred much,hence the large size...Once every now and then they produced the odd Pinapple male as well....

 

i've bought a plot 40kms outside of JHB ( 4 years ago )
am building my house and have already dug space for 2 ponds in the yard ( 10 acres )
cant wait to move n get started ( am building cash so might take a while )

have dug 2 huge holes, gonna b a whole new hobby once i move ( guess the experience im getting now is gonna pay off )
allways wanted something else besides Koy, and want them deep but with easy viewing ...

what else goes well in ponds ? will get heaters, temps drop to -4 there in winter !!

 

If you can foot the heating bill - anything will go into ponds...lol

Mate of mines got a 7 500 liter aquarium outside on his stoep... we made a ingenious black poly pipe heater on roof arangement that is controlled via a solenoid to circulate hot water through it....works quite well and minimal energy wastage compared to conventional geyser elements for heating a pond... Look into that...

 

jeez !! 7500 ltrs ?? TANK ?? like in glass ?? or pond ?? MAD man !!

 

Tank...lol - took a crane to manouver in place and is 1,4 meters deep....will find the link some time...

 

Hi all, Bala Sharks - How do you identify which is male or female?

 

lol - one of those meandering threads...

@jack tar ... Usualy one would open a new thread for this,but here goes:
Bala sharks can only be sexed acurately when adult...round the 20cm + mark - Females will be distinctly plumper than males... MMales sleeker with deeper colour in fins...

 

Hey Azure,

try n find link plzz
m dying to c it


thanx

 

Hey luis very cool avatar pic