not sure to be honest it mitght be the way they breed but they also seem to be more suseptable to sickness

One of the major probs is the length of the gonopodium (sp).. the sexual organ.

Often it is so long in highly bred fish that it becomes useless in the act of reproduction. Swords and Guppies show this to a great degree.

Hybridization could also be a factor, which I understand would as mentioned, make them sterile.

Bill.

how did this become a discussion on swordy's its spose yo be for "pictures"

everything topic in this forum changes topic about 2+ times.

thats not what i intended this one for?

have raised all these guys from babies, thought i might take some pics before they went to the pet stores

not sure but i think this is the 11th lot of babies ive raised to adults in total i have about 100 adult platy of varius types, but i wanted to show of the new type i have which is called a crimson platy (the red one).

Cheers Shae

will post some pics of some of my other livebearers soon!

For those of you who think livebearers involve four species mollie,platy,guppy and swordtail, you are very wrong there are numerous different types i will just name a few for you.

Characodon audax

Goodeids

Xiphophorus variatus

Brachyraphis holdridgei

Gambusia affinis otherwise known as Western Mosquitofish

Heterandria formosa otherwise known as Dwarf Livebearer

others include:

Xiphophorus clemenciae-which is basically a very coulourful swordy with and extremly long sword

Xiphophorus multilineatus- in my opinion one of the most beautiful livebearers, it is small and commonly in an exqusid aqua colour with a diagonal tail starting small at the top and angeling out to become longer at the bottom

Halfbeaks- i think there has been a post somwer before of what these livebearers look like, they have a long slim body and a pointed long pointed snout, commomly are not very colourful but have blue eyes

Porachraphis rosnithae

Zoogenectes quitzeonsis

Cheers Shae

that Characodon audax looks kinda like a nothobranchius killifish. (well the body shape does)

trust me its not a killie its a livebearer!

Cheers LB

Just complementing its body shape.

is queit nice i agree still if i had a photo of the Xiphophorus multilineatus ur jaw would drop!

Cheers Shae

is this the fish you mean?

not a very nice one but yes, i will c if i can find the ones im tlkin about with the aqua colour!

Cheers LB

here it is its the bottom one

Cheers LB

I saw that fish but the pic was absolute ****

yeah i have posted a better pic just above ur one, looks like we r both on the same page when it comes to what i am tlkin bout, but like i say i think its the most beautiful livbearer ive ever seen, and they look much better in real life, i had a mate last year in auckland, and when we went to visit him he had a pair of them, the prob with them is they r veyr hard to breed and die very easy which is a shame, because it is now a very rare fish to find in an aquarium so if any1 has every seen one of these knows were i can get them or has some, wuld they plz contact me as i will pay any price for a pair!

Regards Shae

lol I couldnt find to many pages on them.

thats cuz there like the rarest flippin livebearer

LB

cmon ppls lets get some photos of your livebearers on here, i no there r alot more than this!

Cheers Shae

LB you do no that Gambusia affinis is a pest in nz i catch hundreds of these guys in western springs

yup and there a livebearer!

do you keep them or your just saying that there a LIVEBEARER if you want i can catch some for you

that was going to be my next question kyle? would you grab me some? and ill pay for courier or wateva?

Cheers Shae