It has been a rewarding experience raiseing my pike minnow fry. Their mother died in birth from a ruptured abdomine. The father passed away shortly there after. Unlike the parents who never ate anything other then live, I have finally after 4 months got the fry eating a wide variety of frozen and even flaked food.
Of the original 13 fry, seven remain and are now well over an inch long and I have not lost one to canniblism in over two months. I am no expert at sexing fish by any stretch of the imagination, but with the parents, the Femal was close to 2x the size of the male and he had a pointy "fin" that could rotate 180 degrees from pointing toward the head to pointing toward the tail on the bottom that the female did not have.
Am I wrong to assume that this is a sexual organ? I have never seen anything like this on any other fish including other live bearers like mollys, swordtails and plattys.
If I am correct and that "thing" is a sexual organ, then I have six females and one male left.
Of the original 13 fry, seven remain and are now well over an inch long and I have not lost one to canniblism in over two months. I am no expert at sexing fish by any stretch of the imagination, but with the parents, the Femal was close to 2x the size of the male and he had a pointy "fin" that could rotate 180 degrees from pointing toward the head to pointing toward the tail on the bottom that the female did not have.
Am I wrong to assume that this is a sexual organ? I have never seen anything like this on any other fish including other live bearers like mollys, swordtails and plattys.
If I am correct and that "thing" is a sexual organ, then I have six females and one male left.
