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bettachris     Ultimate Fish Guru Posts: 3875 Kudos: 4173 Votes: 452 Registered: 13-Jun-2004   | i can't seem to keep any male livebearers.  i have no problem houseing female, mollys,platys,swords,or guppies, but cant keep males, so passing up on some nice looking mollys, i went home, and looked at my livebearers, and they are are still fat, with no males, now i know this cant last forever, so is there problems that can occur if i breed, a son to mom? if i do keep the babyes. |
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goldfishgeek Fish Addict Posts: 667 Kudos: 412 Votes: 38 Registered: 27-Oct-2003   | ME TOO! I can keep females no problems and some babies that don't get eaten survive and do very well, my two mollies were two this year! but males just die randomly never lasting for more than a couple of months. Most of my babies are female with only one male guppy! I did get some European bred Black mollies from a different LFS and they are doing well so far and are breeding. I wondered if the males just get tired??  but every "single" male I buy - cos for example I wanted a white male molly or when I wanted a male platy, they have died in a couple of months! very odd? GFG Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey S. Firestone |
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LITTLE_FISH     ***** Little Fish ***** Master of Something Posts: 7303 Kudos: 1997 Votes: 670 Registered: 20-May-2005 | How strange, I have never heard that there is a problem with male livebearers. I have a male platy for 5 months now; he seems just fine while my 2 females had to go to fish heaven. Breeding within the “family” is probably a rather common thing. I would assume that there would be no major side effects within one generation, but I could imagine that it is not the best thing in the long run. Ingo  |
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| angeleel Fish Addict Posts: 561 Kudos: 472 Votes: 61 Registered: 08-Feb-2005  |   Odd my problem is female Endlers, guppys and molly can't ever keep them alive.Hmmm.. Angel Eel |
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| chelaine Big Fish Posts: 383 Kudos: 343 Votes: 78 Registered: 23-Jul-2005 | you guys are the opposite of me. mollies are about ALL i can keep alive.  *Chelle* I love the fishes cuz they're SOOO delicious... |
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Theresa_M  Moderator Queen of Zoom Posts: 3649 Kudos: 4280 Votes: 790 Registered: 04-Jan-2004  | I've had the same problem with Endler's...not so much keeping them alive, but I would only get female fry. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is water at the bottom of the ocean |
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