I heard you can cross a blue platy with an albino sword to get blue swordtails (x platy). If I were to try this which fish should be male and which female? The albino (red eye) swords I have seen in the pet shops seem to have a bit of pineapple colouring in them, is this ok?

Any other tips would be greatly appriciated. I will quarenteen the females for several months so if they are already pregnant they will have those fry first.

I got this swordtail but is it even albino? It has red eyes.

if that was a bird I would call it lutino (lacking all pigments but yellows)

that is an albino swordtail X albino green sword tail

So If I was to try and breed it with a blue platy could the resulting fry turn out to be blue swordtail x platy or would I need a fully white albino sword? Also is it hard to cross swords and platies?

sorry. I dont know much about livebearer genetics.

if you were to cross a platy then you would get (and im assuming you can, though can you???)

the resulting offspring would be (albino swordtail X albino green sword tail) X blue platy

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I know the species will cross breed I justy dont know how easy it is. I guess I w2ill just buy a blue platy and see what happens. I will keep everyone updated.

can platys change sex like swords do

Not sure. A month or two ago I got 2 male and 4 female swords. Now I ended up with 4 male and two female swords.