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How old is a sword tail before they will breed. And I have 6 females and 2 mails the one mail is just young his tail hasn't even fished growing out will the 2 of them fight?

edith

Generally, swordtails can start breeding at around six months of age, give or take a week or two due to individual differences and other influences on growth.

There can be some aggression among males, but having 3 females per male is a good way to limit hostility. If you have a very spacious tank, that will help, too.

LOL Well I no what you mean about them not geting along my pinapple sword is just little has even finished growing it's tail but it sure is puting the run on my older one. That could be I just added the big once to the tank in my 30 gal I have 3 swordtails one canddy tetra and a buenos aires tetra that isn't to meny is it? They have a lot of room/:'

edith

That's not too many, but you should give your tetras more companions of their kinds so they will be happier.

I agree, Tetras like to be in schools of around atleast 5-6 others to be Happy.

But I have seen that different types of tetras have been known to school with eachother.

Ku

My 2 tetras are doing so good there 6 months old and they play with each other as well as the swords

edith

Again Edith, many people here
are giving you solid good advice.
I know you believe that these fish
are fine alone, but some people also believe
there are alien human hybrids on this planet,
both theories are wrong.
Either up the number of Tetras or get rid
of them. Its not fair to the fish to not
give it what it needs, espescially for schooling
fish. Its just plain mean in my opinion.
If you cant provide what your fish need,
why keep them?
Thatd be like keeping a dog and feeding it only
once every 3 days because the dog "looks ok" and
"plays with the cats and people".
Doesnt make it right.


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So_Very_Sneaky LOL Dont get your pant's in an up ror I have gotten more tetra's but there in a difrent tank for another week. I didn't want to infect the other's if some thing was wrong with them. All I ment was the 2 I have to gether now get along good omg you told me befor about this and went and got them more 5 of one kind and the candy tetra I wont get more not after finding out they are miss treeted by dieing them.


edith