75 gallon Firemouth species only Tank

[FiremouthGem]

Bit of humor to be had. I plan to get firemouths which like to redecorate, whelp i don’t have em yet so someone in the 75 took it upon themself (themselves?) to move one of the banana plants away from the front while i was asleep.

 

[Deadeye]

Probably one of the larger swordtails.

 

[FiremouthGem]

Got an oddball question for you all, one of the females gave birth to a bunch of babies, the strongest are surviving and thriving. Have one fry that is an oddball color from the rest i figure maybe the female was in with a red/orange male at some point before i got her, fast forward a little and i get another batch of fry i think from one of the other females, it coulda been the same female again same oddball colors in an aquarium with all skyblue swordtails have one larger fry and like 3 smaller fry all displaying an orange/red look. All other fry are blueish to purpleish depending on how the light hits, there something odd going on here or what?.. i got my Nikon d80 up and going again I’ll try to focus in on the fry.

 

[FiremouthGem]

on this one is one of the oddballs, you notice the blue on the face but the rest of the body is a red/orange (pardon the how dark the photos look on all 3, getting used to taking photos with this thing again.)this is one of the older fry all blue like the parents.this one might just be the lighting but I can see it is orange/red outside of the photo.

 

[Zanzag]

could just be genetic variation in line-bred swordtails. i know when ive had guppies in the past theyve thrown some crazy color offspring

 

[FiremouthGem]

An orange baby next to one of the blue babies

 

[FiremouthGem]

Managed to get a shot of one of the 4 baby plecos, this one shows some good size being the largest of the 4.

 

[Zanzag]

if its bigger than the rest at same age its probably a young male.

 

[FiremouthGem]

Makes sense, Atlas the male in my 55 shot off size-wise early too at around the same time, Min is still on the small side. So many swordtail babies right now going from to about the same side as the baby plecos to ittybitty.

 

[FiremouthGem]

Purchased 6 fire mouths that should be arriving tomorrow, very excited. My mom also got a fry tank setup for the swords, I may put a divider in it and have it as a dual fry tank.