Supposedly from what I have heard is that if the black color is prominent in the finnage the chance of cancer is greater.

Dam*#t, I did not mix a lot with it so hopefully it will not be a problem. One of these days I will get this plant thing right.

Be patient pammk soon you will get some babies to survive and before you know it you will probably have more than you know what to do with.

Lol Darrell, I would definetely consider breeding a few generations of a new labeled strain I produced before I were to sell it as a new "rare" strain. Or atleast I would disclose that they are a cross of two different fish and may not breed true.

You could put some Limia Perugiae in the tank. I have a group of them in a community tank and I just love watching them. Unlike many of the other livebearers I have raised these seem to be more intelligent. Sometimes they remind me of the intelligence that cichlids display. I found this picture of them on Aquabid.

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Well I decided to try my hand at this Walstad-Type method with some crypts. Instead of doing a whole tank though I just potted them. I used a mixture of mainly soil with laterite and some crushed coral. I then topped it off with a layer of gravel to keep the dirt from getting disturbed.

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I think you guys forgot to read the part where he said he got this photo from a post. This is not his fish but atleast we know what to do if our fish starts too look like that.

It is kind of funny how so many breeders for so long have been trying to produce large prolific fish and now they are going the opposite way by producing tiny prolific fish.

Dunchp is right about ordering the back issues. I ordered about 25 of them a while ago and plan on getting the rest soon.

Some things will never cease to amaze me. I just read an article on swordtails and platys in the new issue of Aquarium Fish Magazine. In one section the author talks about sex reversal in swordtails and how it is common in females around four to five months old. He goes on to say, "These individuals will be sexually productive females that undergo sex reversal four to five months after birth have been found to be the most prolific." To me and I am sure many others what he is saying is that the fish are females and they go through a sex change to become males. I think we all know about late developing males. Although they may develope late they never had ovaries or a womb so they were never females in reality. He also goes on to talk about brine shrimp eggs by saying,"Play it safe and eliminate the chance of disease through itroduction of live food. Decapsulating brine shrimp eggs removes all of the known parasites and pathogens, effectively sterelizing the eggs. To decapsulate them, administer a 10-minute freshwater bath and then rinse them thoroughly through a 100 micron strainer." As far as I know there are no pathogens or parasites in brine shrimp eggs. Not only this but you do not decapsulate them to get rid of parasites and pathogens but to make the eggs able to be digestable. Not only is he incorrect about why you decapsulate them but he is also way off on how to decapsulate them. I wonder if he has ever even raised swordtails and hatched or decapsulated brine shrimp eggs.