Mosquitofish fry

[Bottomfeeder]

I bought a pregnant Gambusia Affins. Can I keep the fry when they're born in a nano tank and change half the water every other day and feed em crushed up flakes?

 

[Louie]

That will easily work.

 

[Bottomfeeder]

That will easily work.

Great! Thanks. The pregnancy spot just keeps gettin' darker. How many live young do they have?

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

that is fine to do with them, how big is the gambusia? it can have 15+ if it is a big specimen

 

[Bottomfeeder]

1''

 

[MN_Rebel]

thats really young female as she will probably have 20 fry but mostly of them will get eaten by the mother. Big females will throw 70 to 100 fry.

 

[Druu]

Gambusia care is similar to guppy care.

As an aside, they're not natives. Native to Africa, but introduced in North America for mosquito control.

 

[synodontisjack]

As an aside, they're not natives. Native to Africa, but introduced in North America for mosquito control.

who said it was native

 

[MN_Rebel]

Gambusia care is similar to guppy care.

As an aside, they're not natives. Native to Africa, but introduced in North America for mosquito control.

Who said gambusia were native to Africa? Where you get this rubbish information? Gambusia affinis are native to SouthEast United States which thats in North America....Gambusia aint native to Africa...maybe you got wrong "mosquitofish" as any species can have same name.

Also gambusia care are not similar to guppy care either, they're harder than guppies.

 

[andyjs]

Gambusia care is similar to guppy care.

As an aside, they're not natives. Native to Africa, but introduced in North America for mosquito control.

As already said, they are NA native. They live in the South near the Gulf of Mexico. They have however been introduced to other parts of NA and the rest of the world for mosquito control.