Thanks again!

mid 70s for temp I realy don't pay much attention to perameters. the water out of my tape is about 6.8 for ph other than that I don't know. the fish I have are wild caught from uraguay.

Beautiful platy you got there. I had one just like it I purchased over a year ago. She was heavily pregnant and she gave birth on the way home. I ended up losing her not long after I got her and all her fry except one. Power outage. The one fry that survived turned out to be a female and until last week she was a solitary female until I got her some tank mates.

Thank you, Tiga! At what temperature do you keep your Jenynsia? Are any other water parameters (pH, hardness, etc.) important?

From my understanding, it is just delayed. Some males (i see this alot with the swords) develop very early, some take about 6 months, and i have even had some that took longer than that. but in my experience, the males seem to show up in waves. Very few animals have the ability to have a sex change, without a doc of course..ha ha. but seriously, i think it is just a delayed showing of sex.

I have Jenynsia Onca the care is pretty straight forward they take any prepared food and keep the water clean. I finaly have fry after almost a year with the fish. It takes a little longer for fry, about 3 months between drops.

I have a question for the experts here.

In the 1970-80's when I was heavily into fish I heard the rumor that many livebearers would change sex. In other words, it was said that if you kept a tank with only females, one or more of them would change into a functional male. I wondered if this was simply a case of delayed maturation that wasn't evident in the young fish or if this was an actual sex change.

I recently read an old article about raising and breeding Anableps species, and it piqued my interest in the whole family.

The article stated that Anableps need a tank with a large footprint, rather shallow, with few obstructions but including a shallowly submerged or slightly emersed platform for young fish to rest on and water about half the salinity of seawater kept very warm (ca. 85 F).

Can anyone confirm/deny/add to this tank description? Also, is there any difference in care among the various Anableps species?

Are Anableps at all compatible with other species; say, sailfin mollies or large brackish killifishes such as Fundulus grandis or F. heteroclitus?

Lastly, does anyone here know anything about the care or availability of the other anablepid genera, Jennynsia and Oxyzygonectes?

Lyretail mollyfor sure. I am jealous. Iwould love to have them. They look like a wild type.Really need abetter phototo tell more. If I could see a side view it would be easier. I ampretty sure they are a lyretail molly. I would love to have them. orsome of them. They will eat brine shrimp and spirulina, and a numbertrr ofother foods if you are interested in knowing thir info I can send. Want to keep thesefish happy.
gerard94114@yahoo.com

I was given these fish but no one seems to know what they are. I was told by a fishstore they might be a Molly. Will someone tell me what they are, and if they are a Molly, what type of Molly are they? I would like to buy some more.
Thank you

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